Mining Incidents

Kelly Mine Coal

WPO, Inc · Surface
Controlled by Debbie S. Rose
Oakland, Garrett County, MD  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1800770

Kelly Mine has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $9K 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
2011
Latest incident
Oct 2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
51
citations
17
significant & substantial
$12,229
proposed penalties
$987
paid to date
8% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $11,242 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
28
inspections on record
867
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: 867 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Kelly Mine has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $9K 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.
$12K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$987
paid to date
$9K
outstanding
50 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-10-22.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Kelly Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.14 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 56 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.
0.14
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.75
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
56
samples
Most recent sample: 2015-10-22.
Silica (quartz)
20.2
silica avg (%)
20.2
silica max (%)
1
samples
Most recent sample: 2007-12-07.
Noise
0%
over PEL
42
samples
Most recent sample: 2015-10-22.
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 Q4 1,605 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,444 2 1 818.3
2014 Q2 2,882 3 2 1040.9
2014 Q1 1,818 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 286 1 1 3496.5
2013 Q3 2,037 2 0 981.8
2013 Q1 432 2 0 4629.6
2012 Q4 3,349 0 0 0.0
Show 21 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2012 Q3 2,885 1 0 346.6
2012 Q2 4,451 2 0 449.3
2012 Q1 4,634 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 4,906 1 1 203.8
2011 Q3 4,684 2 1 427.0
2011 Q2 3,618 1 1 276.4
2011 Q1 1,581 3 1 1897.5
2010 Q4 3,202 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 3,583 1 1 279.1
2010 Q2 2,652 2 1 754.1
2010 Q1 3,217 3 0 932.5
2009 Q4 1,992 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 3,354 5 0 1490.8
2008 Q4 4,234 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 3,629 2 0 551.1
2008 Q2 2,837 5 3 1762.4
2008 Q1 1,777 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,937 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,726 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,411 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 988 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2011 · 1 incident

October 17, 2011 MD · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer ALL OTHER OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESSES
WPO, Inc · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

First day on job. Backing up Volvo A35C and had panic attack.

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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.