Mining Incidents

Jayne Bend: 25 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Tunkhannok, Wyoming County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3608654

Jayne Bend has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $55 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2012–2013
Latest incident
Oct 2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
25
citations
5
significant & substantial
$2,267
proposed penalties
$2,212
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $55 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
19
inspections on record
183
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: 183 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Jayne Bend has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $55 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
$55
outstanding
25 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $100 in penalties contested before the Commission, $100 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-10-18.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
20.0%
significant & substantial
12.0%
high negligence or reckless
20.0%
reasonably likely or greater
60.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 20.0% low, 68.0% moderate, 12.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 4% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$100 proposed, $100 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2009-08-11.
Contested penalties
A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
PENN 2009-691M Settlement Lesnick 2010 $100 → $100
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
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.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2010-06-23, 16 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2010-06-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 1.35 0.11 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-06-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.

Jayne Bend recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2001.

Injury rate, 2001
This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.48 and the all-US-mining average was 5.26 cases per 100 workers.
In Pennsylvania, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 5.63 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Wyoming Sand & Stone Company 1997 to 2005
  2. Eastern Industries Inc 2005 to 2011
  3. Eastern Industries Inc. 2011 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2014 8
2013 6
2012 7
2011 6
2010 4
2009 4
2008 4
2007 4
2006 4
2005 3
2002 11
2001 12
2000 12
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Jayne Bend sits in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 1.5% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Wyoming County, Pennsylvania · Population 26,075
1.5%
Mining share of county employment
$70,268
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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 612 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,184 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,966 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 3,531 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,399 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 3,010 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 3,847 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 4,068 0 0 0.0
Show 38 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2012 Q1 1,289 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 3,729 1 0 268.2
2011 Q3 4,447 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 3,441 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 884 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 3,194 1 1 313.1
2010 Q3 2,283 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,672 4 0 2392.3
2010 Q1 812 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,647 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 2,125 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 2,053 2 0 974.2
2009 Q1 747 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,657 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 2,249 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 2,595 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,251 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,657 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,336 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 2,033 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 976 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,657 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 2,260 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 2,297 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 954 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,657 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,338 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 2,433 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 5,579 3 0 537.7
2002 Q2 5,203 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 2,098 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 5,033 2 0 397.4
2001 Q3 6,804 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 6,704 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 2,552 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 6,043 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 5,791 12 4 2072.2
2000 Q1 3,827 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2013 · 1 incident

October 22, 2013 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Eastern Industries Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was struck by the head wheel on the right thigh while lowering the conveyor during repairs.

2012 · 1 incident

April 10, 2012 PA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Eastern Industries Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was trimming a conveyor belt and cut his right hand with the utility knife.