Mining Incidents

Integrity Coal

Banner Blue Coal Company · Underground
Controlled by Metinvest B V
Grundy, Buchanan County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4407205

Integrity has $47K in proposed MSHA penalties and $26K outstanding across 0 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
Apr 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
238
citations
71
significant & substantial
$47,124
proposed penalties
$21,344
paid to date
45% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $25,780 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
62
inspections on record
1,850
inspection hours
12.9
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.
238 citations across 1,850 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Integrity has $47K in proposed MSHA penalties and $26K outstanding across 0 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.
$47K
proposed penalties
$47K
current assessed
$21K
paid to date
$26K
outstanding
232 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-06-30.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Integrity shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.43 mg/m3 (94% compliant) across 126 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.
0.43
dust avg (mg/m3)
4.15
dust max (mg/m3)
94%
within 1.5 mg/m3
126
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-05-20.
Silica (quartz)
11.9
silica avg (%)
30.6
silica max (%)
17
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-05-05.
Noise
6%
over PEL
18
samples
Most recent sample: 2011-10-12.
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
2014 Q1 7,043 18 8 2555.7
2013 Q4 585 7 1 11965.8
2013 Q3 0 3 0
2013 Q2 0 4 0
2013 Q1 0 1 0
2012 Q4 0 6 0
2012 Q3 0 0 0
2012 Q2 3,373 17 4 5040.0
Show 14 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2012 Q1 7,074 33 5 4665.0
2011 Q4 7,239 12 6 1657.7
2011 Q3 4,910 24 10 4888.0
2011 Q2 2,472 5 3 2022.7
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 19 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 0 2 1
2008 Q3 5,903 24 7 4065.7
2008 Q2 4,204 21 6 4995.2
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 121 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2008 · 1 incident

April 24, 2008 VA · Coal bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Coal Country Mining Inc · Struck by falling object

While leaving the continuous miner enroute to the roof bolter to check on the roof bolting crew, I turned the corner and was struck on the back of head and neck driving me to the floor. The rock was approx. 4' x 2' x 12" tapering to 3". The coal seam being mined was approx. 4 ft.

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