Mining Incidents

Darby Road Mine #1 Coal

Keokee, Wise County, VA  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 4407253

Darby Road Mine #1 has $100K in proposed MSHA penalties and $29K outstanding across 12 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
Nov 2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
92
citations
34
significant & substantial
$100,474
proposed penalties
$47,228
paid to date
47% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $53,246 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
34
inspections on record
856
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: 856 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Darby Road Mine #1 has $100K in proposed MSHA penalties and $29K outstanding across 12 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.
$100K
proposed penalties
$76K
current assessed
$47K
paid to date
$29K
outstanding
91 assessments are final orders; 12 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2017-07-12.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Darby Road Mine #1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.12 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 34 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.
0.12
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.50
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
34
samples
Most recent sample: 2017-06-28.
Noise
0%
over PEL
23
samples
Most recent sample: 2012-01-10.
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
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q4 701 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,024 3 2 2929.7
2017 Q2 1,512 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,640 16 2 6060.6
Show 32 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2016 Q4 1,920 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,026 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,204 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 352 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 370 2 0 5405.4
2015 Q2 384 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 571 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,072 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 637 1 1 1569.9
2014 Q2 288 2 0 6944.4
2014 Q1 994 4 1 4024.1
2013 Q4 0 0 0
2013 Q3 0 0 0
2013 Q2 6,911 8 3 1157.6
2013 Q1 963 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 517 6 1 11605.4
2012 Q2 7,665 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 6,127 8 4 1305.7
2011 Q4 22,061 3 3 136.0
2011 Q3 40,194 12 6 298.6
2011 Q2 42,815 14 7 327.0
2011 Q1 21,157 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 10,560 4 1 378.8
2010 Q3 0 8 3
2010 Q2 473 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 500 1 0 2000.0
2009 Q1 750 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2011 · 1 incident

November 10, 2011 VA · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Virginia Fuels Corporation · Struck by falling object

Employee was installing a drive line on a 800 Mack truck. The drive line fell hitting the employees right hand causing injury to his wrist.

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The full compliance file on Darby Road Mine #1

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.