Mining Incidents

Eagle Surface Mine Coal

Rockwell Mining LLC · Surface
Bolt, Wyoming County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4609513

Eagle Surface Mine has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2017
Latest incident
Jun 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2016
48
citations
18
significant & substantial
$15,737
proposed penalties
$12,760
paid to date
81% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,977 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
19
inspections on record
430
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: 430 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Eagle Surface Mine has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$16K
proposed penalties
$13K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
48 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-03-11.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Eagle Surface Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.20 mg/m3 (98% compliant) across 45 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.
0.20
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.54
dust max (mg/m3)
98%
within 1.5 mg/m3
45
samples
Most recent sample: 2018-10-16.
Silica (quartz)
5.4
silica avg (%)
9.2
silica max (%)
6
samples
Most recent sample: 2018-01-17.
Noise
0%
over PEL
21
samples
Most recent sample: 2018-01-04.
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 0 0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 0 0 0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 0 0 0
Show 23 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 2,170 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q2 610 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 3 0
2018 Q4 13,595 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 13,205 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 16,451 16 7 972.6
2018 Q1 12,696 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 14,976 1 0 66.8
2017 Q3 15,216 14 7 920.1
2017 Q2 13,647 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 8,168 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 12,073 8 1 662.6
2016 Q3 7,672 5 3 651.7
2016 Q2 255 1 0 3921.6
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2017 · 1 incident

June 15, 2017 WV · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Eagle Creek Mining LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Setting a transmission in a 777 - boom kicked out, extended boom so it would work then transmission started to swing and while trying to keep boom from swinging with right hand felt pain in right shoulder - strain to shoulder.

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The full compliance file on Eagle Surface 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.