Mining Incidents

Hazleton Shaft Strip Mine Coal

Hazleton, Luzerne County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3609388

Hazleton Shaft Strip Mine has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $595 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2007
Latest incident
Dec 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
36
citations
9
significant & substantial
$4,614
proposed penalties
$4,019
paid to date
87% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $595 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
46
inspections on record
1,516
inspection hours
2.4
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.
36 citations across 1,516 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Hazleton Shaft Strip Mine has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $595 outstanding across 3 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$595
outstanding
36 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-06-29.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Hazleton Shaft Strip Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.15 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 119 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.
0.15
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.02
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
119
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-03-21.
Silica (quartz)
13.9
silica avg (%)
25.0
silica max (%)
4
samples
Most recent sample: 2021-03-15.
Noise
2%
over PEL
60
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-03-21.
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 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
2022 Q2 0 4 3
Show 64 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q1 0 1 0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 1 0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 0 3 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 2 1
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 0 1 0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 108 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 464 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,244 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,270 1 0 787.4
2015 Q3 1,286 1 0 777.6
2015 Q2 1,405 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 3,303 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 695 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 3,146 1 0 317.9
2014 Q2 1,476 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,423 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,507 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 3,337 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 3,704 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 4,076 2 0 490.7
2012 Q4 2,394 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,531 1 0 395.1
2012 Q2 3,852 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 3,329 2 1 600.8
2011 Q4 3,744 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 3,697 3 1 811.5
2011 Q2 3,806 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 4,566 3 1 657.0
2010 Q4 4,155 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 5,343 1 1 187.2
2010 Q2 5,185 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 5,182 1 1 193.0
2009 Q4 5,736 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 5,766 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 5,572 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 3,897 3 0 769.8
2008 Q4 4,262 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 4,796 1 0 208.5
2008 Q2 3,751 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 3,420 1 0 292.4
2007 Q4 3,288 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 3,186 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 3,285 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 3,515 2 0 569.0
2006 Q4 3,460 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 3,416 1 0 292.7
2006 Q2 0 0 0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2007 · 1 incident

December 18, 2007 PA · Coal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hazleton Shaft Corporation · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee slipped on ice exiting crane while working around shovel - 9W dragline.

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