Mining Incidents

Cowen Loadout Coal

Cowen, Webster County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4609322

Cowen Loadout has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $173 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
Dec 2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
19
citations
5
significant & substantial
$2,158
proposed penalties
$1,985
paid to date
92% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $173 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
29
inspections on record
441
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: 441 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Cowen Loadout has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $173 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$173
outstanding
19 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2017-05-30.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Cowen Loadout shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.04 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 13 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.
0.04
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.09
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
13
samples
Most recent sample: 2012-03-14.
Noise
0%
over PEL
7
samples
Most recent sample: 2011-03-24.
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
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q2 0 0 0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 0 0 0
2014 Q3 0 0 0
Show 21 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 0 0 0
2013 Q3 0 0 0
2013 Q2 0 0 0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 0 1 0
2012 Q2 0 0 0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 0 0 0
2011 Q3 0 3 0
2011 Q2 0 0 0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 0 1 0
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 0 2 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 0 1 0
2009 Q2 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2011 · 1 incident

December 31, 2011 WV · Coal security guard, watchman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Atlantic Leaseco, LLC · Fall down stairs

EE walking down steps, tripped and as she fell forward caught herself on hands but struck her forearms, left upper chest and left leg on steps.

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The full compliance file on Cowen Loadout

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.