Mining Incidents

Huber Bank Coal

Popple Construction · Facility
Ashley, Luzerne County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3601698

Huber Bank has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1993–2006
Latest incident
Jun 2006
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
32
citations
8
significant & substantial
$2,767
proposed penalties
$2,364
paid to date
85% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $403 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
47
inspections on record
678
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: 678 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Huber Bank has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
30 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-02-08.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Huber Bank shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.12 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 34 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.
0.12
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.52
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
34
samples
Most recent sample: 2007-02-08.
Noise
4%
over PEL
28
samples
Most recent sample: 2007-02-08.
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
2008 Q2 0 0 0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 0 0 0
2007 Q2 1,040 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,675 1 0 597.0
2006 Q4 1,643 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,530 4 0 2614.4
Show 26 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q2 1,746 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,553 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,848 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,435 6 2 2464.1
2005 Q2 2,452 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 3,031 2 1 659.8
2004 Q4 3,732 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 2,839 1 0 352.2
2004 Q2 1,757 3 1 1707.5
2004 Q1 1,704 1 1 586.9
2003 Q4 2,766 3 2 1084.6
2003 Q3 1,619 2 0 1235.3
2003 Q2 1,500 4 1 2666.7
2003 Q1 1,966 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 0 2 0
2002 Q3 0 0 0
2002 Q2 0 1 0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 2,861 1 0 349.5
2001 Q3 2,625 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 3,368 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 1,842 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,721 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,711 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,652 1 0 605.3
2000 Q1 1,822 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2006 · 1 incident

June 14, 2006 PA · Coal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Ken Pollock Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Injured back while adjusting brakes on the dragline.

1998 · 1 incident

January 7, 1998 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Ken Pollock Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

DOZER OEPRATOR AT SITE WAS NEAR END OF SITE. HE CLIMBED DOWN FROM DOZER AND BEGAN TO CLEAN THE MUDDY TRACKS WITH HIS SHOVEL. WHILE CLEANING TRACKS HE TURNED AND PULLED MUSCLES IN LOWER BACK.

1993 · 1 incident

May 19, 1993 PA · Coal grader operator, roadgrader operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Ken Pollock Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS DOING MORNING ROUTINE PREPARING TO LEAVE FOR MINE SITE THIS INCLUDED FUELING MACHINES NOT AT MINE SITE. HE CAME BACK TO OFFICE GARAGE AND REPORTED PAIN AND NUMBNESS IN HIS LEFT ARM AND HAND TO SUPERVISOR.

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The full compliance file on Huber Bank

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.