Mining Incidents

Burnrite Strip Coal

Controlled by Ron Savitski
Natalie, Columbia County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3608680

Burnrite Strip 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
2011
Latest incident
Feb 2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
13
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,246
proposed penalties
$0
paid to date
0% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,246 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
43
inspections on record
545
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: 545 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Burnrite Strip 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
13 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-02-05.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Burnrite Strip shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.11 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 11 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)
0.28
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
11
samples
Most recent sample: 2009-08-12.
Noise
17%
over PEL
6
samples
Most recent sample: 2009-01-13.
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
2010 Q1 0 1 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 130 2 0 15384.6
2009 Q2 114 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 988 1 1 1012.1
2008 Q4 1,108 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,161 6 0 5168.0
2008 Q2 0 1 0
Show 18 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q1 20 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 0 0 0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 0 0 0
2003 Q2 160 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q3 0 0 0
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 240 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 480 1 0 2083.3
2000 Q4 480 1 0 2083.3
2000 Q3 432 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 720 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2011 · 1 incident

February 3, 2011 PA · Coal miner, prospector, nec OTHER
Burnrite Coal Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

I got a call on Tuesday, Feb 1, cops looking for missing man. Second call on Wed Feb 2, still looking. Wed Feb 2 8PM-man found dead on mountain. He did not work for me, ever. Did not know him. Thursday paper described man found dead in Weiser State Forest. I was not allowed to enter property.

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The full compliance file on Burnrite Strip

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.