Mining Incidents

Bells Landing Tipple Coal

Controlled by Shad B Spencer
Bells Landing, Clearfield County, PA  ·  NonProducing
MSHA Mine ID: 3610034

Bells Landing Tipple has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 2 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 2013
26
citations
3
significant & substantial
$3,301
proposed penalties
$524
paid to date
16% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,777 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2013
34
inspections on record
920
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: 920 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Bells Landing Tipple has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 2 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$524
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
25 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-09-03.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Bells Landing Tipple shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.11 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 49 samples.

Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Respirable coal dust
Respirable coal dust and silica figures cover coal facilities. Dust compliance is measured against the current 1.5 mg/m3 standard; samples predating the 2014 standard are included, so compliance rates are a coarse historical signal.
0.11
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.79
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
49
samples
Most recent sample: 2022-06-17.
Silica (quartz)
0.4
silica avg (%)
0.4
silica max (%)
1
samples
Most recent sample: 2017-09-11.
Noise
0%
over PEL
22
samples
Most recent sample: 2022-06-17.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, 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 0 0 0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 105 2 0 19047.6
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 0 2 0
Show 45 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 300 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 914 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,103 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 931 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 745 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 935 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,248 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,574 1 0 635.3
2021 Q4 1,160 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,316 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 873 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,133 1 0 882.6
2020 Q4 282 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,172 3 1 1381.2
2020 Q2 1,905 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,766 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,026 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,992 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,037 3 0 1472.8
2019 Q1 1,990 2 0 1005.0
2018 Q4 1,833 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,724 2 0 1160.1
2018 Q2 733 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 732 1 0 1366.1
2017 Q4 596 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 597 3 0 5025.1
2017 Q2 790 2 1 2531.6
2017 Q1 653 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,046 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 659 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 484 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,048 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,178 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,040 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 491 1 0 2036.7
2014 Q3 537 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 638 1 0 1567.4
2014 Q1 1,004 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 488 1 1 2049.2
2013 Q3 494 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,097 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,071 1 0 933.7
2012 Q4 786 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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The full compliance file on Bells Landing Tipple

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.