Mining Incidents

Cresent Valley Mine Coal

Mays Mining, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Rodney Mays
Carbon Hill, Walker County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103370

Cresent Valley Mine has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $590 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2010–2011
Latest incident
Apr 2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
42
citations
14
significant & substantial
$10,340
proposed penalties
$8,700
paid to date
84% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,640 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
23
inspections on record
381
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: 381 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Cresent Valley Mine has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $590 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$590
outstanding
42 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-02-04.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Cresent Valley Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.26 mg/m3 (97% compliant) across 92 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.
0.26
dust avg (mg/m3)
2.00
dust max (mg/m3)
97%
within 1.5 mg/m3
92
samples
Most recent sample: 2019-03-27.
Silica (quartz)
9.0
silica avg (%)
10.7
silica max (%)
5
samples
Most recent sample: 2019-02-25.
Noise
2%
over PEL
45
samples
Most recent sample: 2019-02-13.
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
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q1 13,424 1 0 74.5
2018 Q4 15,508 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 8,707 4 0 459.4
2018 Q1 4,960 5 2 1008.1
2013 Q2 250 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 371 0 0 0.0
Show 22 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2012 Q4 1,933 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 7,580 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 9,026 2 0 221.6
2012 Q1 9,696 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 11,418 3 2 262.7
2011 Q3 11,853 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 10,553 5 0 473.8
2011 Q1 8,758 10 5 1141.8
2010 Q4 6,796 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 8,282 3 1 362.2
2010 Q2 8,431 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 8,451 1 0 118.3
2009 Q4 6,727 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 8,637 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 9,673 5 3 516.9
2009 Q1 16,105 1 0 62.1
2008 Q4 12,167 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 10,484 2 1 190.8
2008 Q2 0 0 0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2011 · 1 incident

April 9, 2011 AL · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
National Coal of Alabama Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was working on the door of a D10 dozer, he removed the door & it slipped pinching his finger, he jerked his hand out from under the door cutting his right pinky finger.

2010 · 1 incident

October 20, 2010 AL · Coal rock driller MACHINERY
National Coal of Alabama Inc · Struck by flying object

The injuried was using a grinder to smooth rough edges of a shaft and several small pieces of metal came off and flew under his safety glasses and got lodged under his right eye lid.

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The full compliance file on Cresent 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.