Mining Incidents

Bell Mountain Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Linda Malinowski
Dickson City, Lackawanna County, PA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3610315

Bell Mountain has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2020
27
citations
12
significant & substantial
$7,289
proposed penalties
$5,622
paid to date
77% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,667 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
16
inspections on record
210
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 210 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Bell Mountain has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 0 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
27 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-26.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 4,862 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,440 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,580 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 7,240 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 7,240 2 1 276.2
2024 Q2 7,070 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,705 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 2,816 0 0 0.0
Show 14 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 3,949 4 2 1012.9
2023 Q2 2,964 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,556 1 0 391.2
2022 Q3 2,205 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,707 2 1 738.8
2022 Q1 1,937 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,143 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,344 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,689 3 1 1776.2
2021 Q1 2,640 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,588 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 927 1 0 1078.7
2020 Q2 2,574 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 3,705 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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