Mining Incidents

Bigler Rail Loadout Coal

Controlled by J Clifford Forrest III
Brockway, Jefferson County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3609114

Bigler Rail Loadout has $433 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2002
6
citations
2
significant & substantial
$433
proposed penalties
$433
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
21
inspections on record
155
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: 155 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Bigler Rail Loadout has $433 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$433
proposed penalties
$433
current assessed
$433
paid to date
$0
outstanding
6 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-01-06.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Bigler Rail Loadout shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.10 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 2 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.
0.10
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.16
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
2
samples
Most recent sample: 2004-06-28.
Noise
0%
over PEL
3
samples
Most recent sample: 2005-08-03.
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
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 0 0 0
2007 Q2 0 0 0
2007 Q1 149 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 934 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 902 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 489 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,417 0 0 0.0
Show 14 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2005 Q4 1,104 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,469 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,200 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 909 1 1 1100.1
2004 Q4 1,736 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,461 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,037 1 1 964.3
2004 Q1 533 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 910 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 406 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 594 1 0 1683.5
2003 Q1 541 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 412 3 0 7281.6
2002 Q3 1,533 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 Bigler Rail Loadout

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.