Mining Incidents

Century 101 Coal

Controlled by Dominick LaRosa
Century, Barbour County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4608138

Century 101 has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
1992–1994
Latest incident
Mar 1994
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
27
citations
3
significant & substantial
$13,913
proposed penalties
$13,886
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $27 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
38
inspections on record
431
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: 431 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Century 101 has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$14K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$14K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
23 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-09-11.
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
2009 Q2 36 1 0 27777.8
2009 Q1 0 1 0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2000 Q2 7,187 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 5,549 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

1994 · 2 incidents

March 30, 1994 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Rauer Coal Corp · Struck against a moving object

DRIVER WAS OPERATING THE TRATOR TRAILER ASCENDING A STEEP HAUL ROAD WHICH WAS ROUGH & WET & WAS TURNING TO THE RT WHEN THE DRIVE WHEELS ON THE TRACTOR LOST TRACTION CAUSING IT TO SPIN THEN GAI NED TRACTION CAUSING THE GEARING IN THE REAR ENDTO BREAK THE TRACTOR & TRAILER STARTED SLIDIKNG BACKWARD ON THE GRADE & CURVE CAUSING THE TRAILER TO JACK KNIFE & UPSET & THROW THE TRACTOR INT

February 17, 1994 WV · Coal car dropper, car shake out operator POWERED HAULAGE
Rauer Coal Corp · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

THE EE WAS INAN UPRIGHT POSITION ON A RAILROAD CAR PLATFORM TRY TO RELEASE THE MANUAL BRAKE. THE BRAKE WAS TIGHTLY SET AND WHEN IT BROKE FREE, THE EE FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

1993 · 1 incident

August 30, 1993 WV · Coal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger MACHINERY
Rauer Coal Corp · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE EE WAS USING A HAND DRILL TO DRILL A HOLE THRU A CLOTHES LOCKER. THE DRILL BIT WENT THRU THE METAL AND PUNCTURED HIS FINGER.

1992 · 3 incidents

December 28, 1992 WV · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Rauer Coal Corp · Over-exertion in lifting objects

THE EE WAS BENT OVER PICKING UP A SAMPLE BAG OF COAL. WATER SPLASHED DOWN FROM ABOVE. THE EE JERKED TO GET OUT OF THE WAY AND STRAINED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

July 31, 1992 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Rauer Coal Corp · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

54736YEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF DISMOUNTING FROM A DUMP T RUCK HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON RUNNING BOARD CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE HE THEN FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK

July 11, 1992 WV · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Rauer Coal Corp · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

38505MPLOYEE WAS REMOVING THE DOOR TO THE FLOW BATH.IT SLIPPED AND SWUNG TOWARD ANOTHER EMPLOYEE.HE SHOVED AGAINST THE DOOR TO KEEP IT FROM STRIKING THE OTHER EMPLOYEE.HE LATER REPORTED A SORE 02132 AS A RESULT OF SHOVING THE DOOR.

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The full compliance file on Century 101

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.