Mining Incidents

Coal Valley Mine Coal

Townley, Walker County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103410

Coal Valley Mine has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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 2011
21
citations
8
significant & substantial
$10,433
proposed penalties
$10,433
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
26
inspections on record
411
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: 411 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Coal Valley Mine has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
20 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-02-10.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Coal Valley Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.20 mg/m3 (96% compliant) across 96 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.
0.20
dust avg (mg/m3)
2.64
dust max (mg/m3)
96%
within 1.5 mg/m3
96
samples
Most recent sample: 2016-10-26.
Silica (quartz)
7.1
silica avg (%)
12.8
silica max (%)
3
samples
Most recent sample: 2016-08-16.
Noise
0%
over PEL
40
samples
Most recent sample: 2016-10-26.
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
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
Show 28 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 851 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 3,678 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,200 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,550 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 23,410 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 12,935 1 0 77.3
2014 Q4 30,469 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 32,617 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 36,022 4 1 111.0
2014 Q1 30,497 2 0 65.6
2013 Q4 43,286 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 36,627 1 1 27.3
2013 Q2 42,031 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 36,647 2 1 54.6
2012 Q4 46,651 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 41,791 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 37,052 6 3 161.9
2012 Q1 34,151 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 26,512 1 1 37.7
2011 Q3 21,056 1 0 47.5
2011 Q2 10,472 3 1 286.5
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 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 Coal Valley 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.