Mining Incidents

Double Camp No. 1 Coal

Controlled by James C Justice III
Coal Mountain, Wyoming County, WV  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 4609227

Double Camp No. 1 has $244K in proposed MSHA penalties and $55K outstanding across 36 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
11
Years on record
2008–2017
Latest incident
Apr 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
553
citations
96
significant & substantial
$244,491
proposed penalties
$146,312
paid to date
60% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $98,179 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
69
inspections on record
2,707
inspection hours
20.4
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.
553 citations across 2,707 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Double Camp No. 1 has $244K in proposed MSHA penalties and $55K outstanding across 36 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.
$244K
proposed penalties
$202K
current assessed
$146K
paid to date
$55K
outstanding
546 assessments are final orders; 36 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-03-28.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Double Camp No. 1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.67 mg/m3 (93% compliant) across 258 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.
0.67
dust avg (mg/m3)
2.89
dust max (mg/m3)
93%
within 1.5 mg/m3
258
samples
Most recent sample: 2017-06-22.
Silica (quartz)
5.1
silica avg (%)
7.4
silica max (%)
22
samples
Most recent sample: 2017-05-12.
Noise
0%
over PEL
34
samples
Most recent sample: 2017-05-05.
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
2024 Q2 0 1 0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
Show 42 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2018 Q1 2,620 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 2,706 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,232 11 1 8928.6
2017 Q2 37,013 39 8 1053.7
2017 Q1 26,216 41 15 1563.9
2016 Q4 11,749 46 4 3915.2
2016 Q3 1,173 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 505 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q2 0 0 0
2015 Q1 1,220 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,510 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 3,168 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,081 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 2,642 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,539 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,746 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,485 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,125 4 0 3555.6
2012 Q4 8,951 25 1 2793.0
2012 Q3 11,008 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 0 1 0
2012 Q1 14,730 5 0 339.4
2011 Q4 28,632 14 2 489.0
2011 Q3 26,101 36 12 1379.3
2011 Q2 1,456 46 11 31593.4
2010 Q4 0 3 0
2010 Q3 0 1 0
2010 Q2 0 2 0
2010 Q1 0 2 1
2009 Q4 6,827 1 0 146.5
2009 Q3 19,309 33 6 1709.0
2009 Q2 18,520 48 4 2591.8
2009 Q1 21,995 48 6 2182.3
2008 Q4 21,332 31 5 1453.2
2008 Q3 23,460 29 4 1236.1
2008 Q2 18,773 53 14 2823.2
2008 Q1 14,484 27 2 1864.1
2007 Q4 1,294 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

11 on file

2017 · 2 incidents

April 5, 2017 WV · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Was putting cable behind anchor. The shuttle car lost power. Went and put power back in, and the stop, start switch was stuck and the cable started taking up and hit employee on the back of the legs and flipped employee. Employee landed on left wrist and head bounced off the bottom of the mine floor.

January 13, 2017 WV · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

Area inby fan house had 2 mud seams come together with freezing and thawing weather. Area 3 ft. x 9 ft. x4.5 ft. thick raveled out and fell. Did not block air way or travel ways.

2016 · 1 incident

November 23, 2016 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) OTHER
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Was walking to scoop and felt pain in lower back

2012 · 1 incident

September 17, 2012 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) POWERED HAULAGE
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was un-hanging the bolter cable in the No. 6 cross-cut when a shuttle car caught the cable and jerked it from the hangers. The cable struck the employee and caused him to fall striking his right hip on the mine floor.

2011 · 1 incident

July 21, 2011 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Struck by falling object

Employee stated that while drilling the mine roof to install a roof bolt, the drill steel fell out and struck him on the hand.

2010 · 1 incident

2009 · 1 incident

May 30, 2009 WV · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee was pushing a roof bolt in the hole when he felt pain in his lower back.

2008 · 4 incidents

December 23, 2008 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee stated that while taking down curtain, he twisted the wrong way and hurt his back.

September 15, 2008 WV · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Struck by powered moving object

EE was making a spice on a shuttle car cable, when the scoop operator trammed the scoop around the corner and struck the EE. The EE was knocked over by the scoop.

February 10, 2008 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) OTHER
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Struck by flying object

EE was welding on the side of a canopy near #5 entry when a gust of wind blew the canopy over striking the employee.

February 10, 2008 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) OTHER
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Struck by flying object

EE was welding on the side of a canopy near #5 entry when a gust of wind blew the canopy over causing the canopy to strike the EE.

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The full compliance file on Double Camp No. 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.