Mining Incidents

Black Nugget Coal

Lopez, Sullivan County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3608714

Black Nugget has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2002
Latest incident
Mar 2002
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
9
citations
6
significant & substantial
$1,094
proposed penalties
$0
paid to date
0% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,094 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
4
inspections on record
161
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: 161 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Black Nugget has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$0
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
7 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-12-16.
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
2002 Q2 1,971 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 2,322 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,165 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2002 · 1 incident

March 20, 2002 PA · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Capitol Coal Company Inc · Fall onto or against objects

WORKING ON VOLVO, GETTING ONTO BUCKET, SLIPPED, FELL APPROX 4 FT, FELL ON EDGE OF BUCKET (NO LOSS OF TIME) MISSED NO TIME, SINCE BACK WAS BRUISED JUST WANTED ON FILE, EMPLOYEE CONTINUES TO WORK.

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