Mining Incidents

Heavy Equipment Shop Coal

OAKWOOD, Buchanan County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4407058

Heavy Equipment Shop has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2012
Latest incident
Jun 2012
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
19
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,710
proposed penalties
$1,665
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $45 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
35
inspections on record
418
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: 418 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Heavy Equipment Shop has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
19 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-11-15.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Heavy Equipment Shop shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.13 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 73 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.
0.13
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.53
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
73
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-10-08.
Noise
0%
over PEL
51
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-10-08.
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
2015 Q1 1,554 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,995 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,993 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,186 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 4,170 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 3,408 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 3,195 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 2,077 0 0 0.0
Show 42 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q1 2,357 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,626 2 0 1230.0
2012 Q3 2,290 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,221 3 0 1350.7
2012 Q1 1,953 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,645 1 0 607.9
2011 Q3 1,707 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,003 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1,564 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 2,131 2 0 938.5
2010 Q3 2,091 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,922 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 2,055 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,513 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,306 1 0 765.7
2009 Q2 1,522 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1,502 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,274 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,410 1 0 709.2
2008 Q2 1,927 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,446 2 0 1383.1
2007 Q4 1,583 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,391 1 0 718.9
2007 Q2 1,611 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,298 2 0 1540.8
2006 Q4 1,406 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,213 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,555 1 0 643.1
2006 Q1 1,299 2 0 1539.6
2005 Q4 1,317 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,053 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,411 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,026 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,400 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,055 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,245 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,182 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,445 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,053 1 0 949.7
2003 Q2 589 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 768 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,322 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2012 · 1 incident

June 22, 2012 VA · Coal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Jewell Smokeless Coal Corporation · Struck by flying object

Two ee's were reattaching the bucket on a Gradall. They were attempting to remove the pin from the Gradall arm. The injured ee was holding the handle of the pin hammer while the other ee was striking it with a sledge hammer. Both hammers were hardened steel. A sharp steel fragment broke loose upon impact and entered the injured ee's arm midway between the wrist and elbow.

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The full compliance file on Heavy Equipment Shop

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.