Hess Creek Surface Mine
Coal
Raven, VA,
Russell County,
VA
·
Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4407244
Hess Creek Surface Mine has $20K in proposed MSHA penalties and $200 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
- 2008
- Latest incident
- Nov 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
15
significant & substantial
$20,006
proposed penalties
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $540 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
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: 334 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Hess Creek Surface Mine has $20K in proposed MSHA penalties and $200 outstanding across 3 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.
49 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-02-23.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
MSHA sampling at Hess Creek Surface Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.16 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 15 samples.
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.
Respirable coal dust
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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.
Most recent sample: 2009-12-11.
Noise
Most recent sample: 2009-06-02.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.
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 |
| 2010 Q3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2010 Q2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2010 Q1 |
8,934 |
1 |
1 |
111.9 |
| 2009 Q4 |
21,490 |
11 |
5 |
511.9 |
| 2009 Q3 |
5,079 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2009 Q2 |
16,019 |
10 |
3 |
624.3 |
| 2009 Q1 |
25,472 |
2 |
0 |
78.5 |
| 2008 Q4 |
21,021 |
25 |
6 |
1189.3 |
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2008 · 1 incident
November 10, 2008
VA · Coal
maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech
HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Knox Creek Coal Corporation · Struck by falling object
Employee was standing behind the miner head waiting as two members moved the cover onto the shear jack. The new members did not see his hand and dropped the cover on his hand.
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