Mining Incidents

Craighead Mine Coal

Controlled by KTRV LLC
Indian Lake, PA, Somerset County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3610272

Craighead Mine has $15K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1 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
2021
Latest incident
Jul 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
24
citations
7
significant & substantial
$14,697
proposed penalties
$14,696
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
11
inspections on record
227
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: 227 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Craighead Mine has $15K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1 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.
$15K
proposed penalties
$15K
current assessed
$15K
paid to date
$1
outstanding
24 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-05-01.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Craighead Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.06 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 33 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.
0.06
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.57
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
33
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-04-13.
Silica (quartz)
4.3
silica avg (%)
5.6
silica max (%)
2
samples
Most recent sample: 2021-06-28.
Noise
7%
over PEL
14
samples
Most recent sample: 2022-01-05.
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
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 80 2 0 25000.0
2023 Q1 159 2 0 12578.6
2022 Q4 99 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 232 3 0 12931.0
2022 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 525 3 1 5714.3
Show 12 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q4 2,506 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 4,522 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 6,190 10 3 1615.5
2021 Q1 3,242 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 140 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 874 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 194 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 914 2 2 2188.2
2019 Q2 2,581 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 3,439 2 1 581.6
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2021 · 1 incident

July 24, 2021 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Heritage Coal & Natural Resources LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

water pump 6" hose became pressurized when pump was turned on and moved striking miner in the legs and knocking EE down. Miner hurt EE's left wrist/lower arm bracing self from EE's fall to the ground.

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