Mining Incidents

Loomis Bank Operation Coal

Wilkes Barre, Luzerne County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3608677

Loomis Bank Operation has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
1999–2009
Latest incident
Apr 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
17
citations
6
significant & substantial
$2,460
proposed penalties
$2,460
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
40
inspections on record
794
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: 794 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Loomis Bank Operation has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
17 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-05-05.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Loomis Bank Operation shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.19 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 65 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.
0.19
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.25
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
65
samples
Most recent sample: 2009-12-08.
Noise
6%
over PEL
52
samples
Most recent sample: 2009-11-23.
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
2010 Q3 0 0 0
2010 Q2 2,045 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 2,818 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 6,565 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 11,032 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 11,397 2 2 175.5
2009 Q1 11,140 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 10,948 1 0 91.3
Show 30 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q3 9,427 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 10,408 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 9,664 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 9,812 1 0 101.9
2007 Q3 10,174 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 9,168 1 1 109.1
2007 Q1 10,006 3 1 299.8
2006 Q4 7,219 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 8,162 1 0 122.5
2006 Q2 8,631 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,423 3 1 2108.2
2005 Q4 566 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 828 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 917 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,349 1 0 741.3
2004 Q4 1,267 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 1,352 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 3,230 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 2,099 1 0 476.4
2002 Q2 1,309 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 3,584 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 4,492 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 5,434 2 0 368.1
2001 Q2 4,139 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 5,187 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 6,538 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 8,023 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 7,747 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 7,503 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2009 · 1 incident

April 28, 2009 PA · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
U. S. Operating Services Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

An employee sustained injuries when he was cutting a scrap grizzly. The employee was struck on the side of his head (fractured bone) when a section of steel he was cutting de-stressed and pivoted upward with the sideboard. Another section of steel landed on the top of both of his feet. (both feet had lacerations). More detail to be ammended to this report.

2006 · 1 incident

2001 · 1 incident

January 31, 2001 PA · Coal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
U. S. Operating Services Company · Fall onto or against objects

CLOUDY,FREEZING RAIN CONDITIONS. WHILE EE WAS CLEANING THE WINDSHIELD ON THE DRAGLINE (STANDING ON THE DECK) WHEN HE TURNED TO HIS LEFT USING 3 POINT CONTROL TO GET IT MORE PAPER TOWLES USING LEFT FOOT SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM & FELL ON HIS LEFT SIDE BREAKING HIS LEFT HAND

1999 · 1 incident

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The full compliance file on Loomis Bank Operation

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.