Hancheck Site: 10 MSHA citations
Metal/Non-Metal
Smithfield,
Fayette County,
PA
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Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3609498
Hancheck Site has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2007
- Latest incident
- Aug 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
1
significant & substantial
$1,734
proposed penalties
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 116 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Hancheck Site has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
10 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-10-09.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
10.0%
significant & substantial
40.0%
high negligence or reckless
10.0%
reasonably likely or greater
80.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 60.0% moderate, 30.0% high, 10.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
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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.
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
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Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2007-06-07, 19 years ago
Most sampled contaminants
- Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
- Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
- Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (4)
| Date |
Contaminant |
Concentration |
Limit |
Conc / limit |
Occupation |
| 2007-06-07 |
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz |
0.28 |
|
|
Front-end Loader Operator |
| 2007-06-07 |
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz |
0.34 |
|
|
Crusher Oper/Worker |
| 2007-03-29 |
Respirable dust, <.1mg |
0 |
|
|
Laborer, Bullgang |
| 2007-03-29 |
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz |
0.17 |
1.22 |
0.14 |
Laborer, Bullgang |
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Hancheck Site recorded 18.61 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2007.
Injury rate, 2007
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This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.30 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 cases per 100 workers.
In Pennsylvania, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.78 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
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Fayette Coal & Coke Inc
2007 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year |
Employees |
| 2008 |
8 |
| 2007 |
10 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Hancheck Site sits in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 2.8% of county employment.
Local economic context
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County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Fayette County, Pennsylvania · Population 126,967
2.8%
Mining share of county employment
$56,093
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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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 |
| 2008 Q4 |
1,590 |
1 |
0 |
628.9 |
| 2008 Q3 |
4,386 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2008 Q2 |
4,555 |
3 |
0 |
658.6 |
| 2008 Q1 |
3,049 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2007 Q4 |
6,829 |
3 |
0 |
439.3 |
| 2007 Q3 |
6,113 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2007 Q2 |
3,763 |
1 |
1 |
265.7 |
| 2007 Q1 |
4,793 |
2 |
0 |
417.3 |
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file
2007 · 2 incidents
August 2, 2007
PA · Metal/Non-Metal
bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Fayette Coal & Coke Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Injured was using a hammer to reinstall a pin on his front end loader, when a piece of metal from the hammer, broke off and entered injured's right check.
June 11, 2007
PA · Metal/Non-Metal
bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
After greasing crusher, employee was descending ladder when his foot hung up on steps and he lost his balance and fell to the ground.