Employee was making a splice in cable when his knife slipped, cutting his left hand.
Caymus Mine Coal
Caymus Mine has $461K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 15 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 23
- Years on record
- 1983–2014
- Latest incident
- Jan 2014
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.Caymus Mine has $461K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 15 contested dockets.
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.MSHA sampling at Caymus Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.56 mg/m3 (95% compliant) across 173 samples.
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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 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.ⓘ
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.| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 Q4 | 1,040 | 1 | 0 | 961.5 |
| 2016 Q3 | 1,000 | 1 | 0 | 1000.0 |
| 2016 Q1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 2015 Q4 | 520 | 1 | 1 | 1923.1 |
| 2015 Q3 | 520 | 2 | 0 | 3846.2 |
| 2015 Q2 | 1,560 | 1 | 0 | 641.0 |
| 2015 Q1 | 1,560 | 2 | 0 | 1282.1 |
| 2014 Q4 | 1,560 | 1 | 0 | 641.0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Q3 | 2,270 | 2 | 0 | 881.1 |
| 2014 Q2 | 19,931 | 19 | 8 | 953.3 |
| 2014 Q1 | 46,023 | 32 | 11 | 695.3 |
| 2013 Q4 | 41,457 | 40 | 11 | 964.9 |
| 2013 Q3 | 44,341 | 19 | 12 | 428.5 |
| 2013 Q2 | 41,335 | 19 | 1 | 459.7 |
| 2013 Q1 | 33,190 | 20 | 7 | 602.6 |
| 2012 Q4 | 19,304 | 16 | 4 | 828.8 |
| 2012 Q3 | 28,213 | 16 | 3 | 567.1 |
| 2012 Q2 | 9,403 | 18 | 8 | 1914.3 |
| 2012 Q1 | 7,506 | 14 | 6 | 1865.2 |
| 2011 Q4 | 5,081 | 30 | 16 | 5904.3 |
| 2011 Q3 | 7,022 | 4 | 1 | 569.6 |
| 2011 Q2 | 2,381 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 Q1 | 2,613 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q4 | 1,808 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q3 | 2,016 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q2 | 1,650 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2009 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2009 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Reportable incidents
23 on file2014 · 1 incident
2013 · 2 incidents
Employee was retrieving nails from roof bolter when a piece of rib material, 6'L x 3'W x 12" thick, fell, striking him from behind, injuring his left knee.
Employee was moving section when the scoop tire got on his Left foot.
2012 · 1 incident
Employee was operating scoop when a rock fell from the roof and struck him in the head.
2011 · 2 incidents
Employee was trying to loosen fitting on water block when he pulled a muscle in his left arm.
Employee was pulling and pushing on 3" solid water line when he felt a pain in his right calf muscle.
1984 · 6 incidents
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE HE WAS BOLTING, THE CANOPY OF THE OVER SIDE OF THE ROOF BOLTER BROKE AND HIT HIM ON THE HEAD, CAUSING INJURY.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS LIFTING ROOF BOLTS OUT OF THE UN-A-TRAC AND PUTTING THEM ON THE ROOF BOLTED WHEN HE PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN-GROIN AREA, CAUSING INJURY.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS AT #3 ENTRY PULLING ON ROOF BOLTER CABLE WHEN HE STRAINED HIS GROIN, CAUSING INJURY.
EMP STATED HE WAS WELDING ON A PIPE THAT WAS LEANING AGAINST A SPOOL OF CABLE IN THE SHOP THE PIPE SLID DOWN AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE PIPE AND A HAMMER LYING ON THE FLOOR CAUSING INJ
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS WALKING BELT ENTRY DURING HIS FIRE BOSS RUN WHEN HE SLIPPED IN SOME MUD AT 88 STOPPING AND FELL INJURING HIS HAND AND WRIST
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS STANDING BEHIND BOLTER WHATCHING CABLE AND GETTING READY TO MOVE BOLTER. BOLTER OPERATOR MOVED THE BOLTER BEFORE HE KNEW IT AND RAN UPON HIS FOOT WITH THE BUMPER OF THE MACHINE, CAUSING INJURY.
1983 · 11 incidents
WALKING ON BELT LINE AND RAN INTO HANGING BOLT,CAUSING INJURY.
OPERATING C.M. AND CANOPY DROPPED DOWN CAUSING INJURY TO HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE STGATED THAT HE WAS OPENING ROCKDUST BAG WITH HIS KNIFE AND LACERATED THE TOP OF HIS RT INDEX FINGVER
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS CUTTING WATER LINE IN TWO WITH AN AX AND HAMMER WHEN HE STRUCK THE BLADE OF THE AX AND A PIECE OF STEEL STRUCK HIM IN THE LEFT HAND, CAUSING INJURY.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS REPAIRING BATTERY PLUG WHEN A PIECE OF HOT METAL WENT INTO HIS BOOT, CAUSING INJURY.
EE STATED THAT THE ROOF BOLTER WAS SITTING AT THE BACK UP FLYS IN #7 ENTRY & THE STANDARD S/C CAME THRU FLYS & HIT BACK OF BOLTER. HE WAS AT BACK OF BOLTER & HE JUMPED UPON TOP OF ROOF BOLTE R & HIT THE TOP OF H IS FOOT.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS OPERATING MANTRIP AND CABLE WAS HANGING LOW ON THE MAIN TRACK LINE CABLE CAUGHT HIS HEAD JERKED HIM DOWN INTO THE MANTRIP AND INTO THE ROOF CAUSING INJURY
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE HIT A BUMP IN THE ROADWAY, THE BOOM ON THE SHUTTLE CAR HIT THE TOP, AND HIS FINGER GOT PINCHED ON THE TOP CANOPY.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS CROSSING THE CATWALK WHICH IS NARROW AND GRABBED A POST TO GET DOWN HIS RIGHT FOOT CAUGHT ON SOMETHING AND WHEN IT CAME LOOSE IT THREW HIM MAKING HIM TWIST HIS RIGHT KNEE AND LANDING ON HIS RIGHT LEG
HELPING HANG CURTAIN AT 2ND X-CUT OUTBY FACE OF 3 ENTRY.OFF STANDARD SHUTTLE CAR WAS TRAVELING 3 ENTRY.EMPL THOUGHT SHUTTLE CAR WAS GOING TO GO DOWN 3 BUT INSTEAD,SHUTTLE CAR MADE LEFT TURN AN D LOAD END OF SHUTTLE CAR PINNED EMPL AGAINST RIB.
HELPING HANG CURTAIN.EMPL THOUGHT SHUTTLE CAR WAS GOING TO GO DOWN 3 ENTRY BUT IT MADE A LEFT TURN AND LOAD END OF SHUTTLE CAR STRUCK EMPL ON LEFT SIDE LOWER BACK AND LEG. EMPL ON LEFT SIDE OF LOWER BACK AND LEG.
The full compliance file on Caymus Mine
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.