Mining Incidents

LUCERNE Coal

Homer City, Indiana County, PA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3609442

LUCERNE has $4K 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
2
Years on record
2019–2022
Latest incident
Aug 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
26
citations
12
significant & substantial
$3,760
proposed penalties
$3,760
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
54
inspections on record
1,440
inspection hours
1.8
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.
26 citations across 1,440 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

LUCERNE has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
25 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-04-11.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at LUCERNE shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.08 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 232 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.
0.08
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.38
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
232
samples
Most recent sample: 2026-06-23.
Silica (quartz)
3.7
silica avg (%)
4.7
silica max (%)
3
samples
Most recent sample: 2020-02-04.
Noise
0%
over PEL
106
samples
Most recent sample: 2026-02-24.
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
2025 Q4 2,048 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,554 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,213 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 861 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,009 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,086 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,673 2 1 1195.5
2024 Q1 1,741 0 0 0.0
Show 69 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,909 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,136 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,930 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,979 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 0 2 1
2022 Q2 0 1 0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 1,578 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,848 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,145 2 0 932.4
2021 Q1 2,501 1 0 399.8
2020 Q4 2,289 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,897 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,843 4 4 2170.4
2020 Q1 2,405 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,968 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 4,185 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 4,598 1 0 217.5
2019 Q1 4,772 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 4,717 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 4,935 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 5,095 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 5,246 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 4,871 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 4,778 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 4,089 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 3,813 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 3,510 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 4,506 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 3,972 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 4,563 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 3,425 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 3,213 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 3,678 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 4,133 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 3,447 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 3,978 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,635 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 4,326 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 3,713 1 0 269.3
2013 Q3 3,863 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 4,133 1 0 242.0
2013 Q1 4,145 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 3,500 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 3,481 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 4,202 1 0 238.0
2012 Q1 4,420 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 3,751 1 1 266.6
2011 Q3 4,072 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 4,220 1 1 237.0
2011 Q1 3,848 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 4,252 2 0 470.4
2010 Q3 4,112 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 4,015 1 0 249.1
2010 Q1 3,998 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 4,075 1 1 245.4
2009 Q3 3,065 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 4,020 2 1 497.5
2009 Q1 3,188 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 2,515 1 1 397.6
2008 Q3 2,857 1 1 350.0
2008 Q2 3,121 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 3,440 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 2,244 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,670 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 2,069 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 2,344 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2022 · 1 incident

August 11, 2022 PA · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
Compass Coal Co · Struck by flying object

Working on lift axle, air bag exploded and hit chest

2019 · 1 incident

February 20, 2019 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cambria Fuel Management Company LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was hand-salting an icy area on the haul road. EE was spreading calcium chloride when EE slipped on the ice and fell catching self with EE's left hand. After an x-ray at the local emergency room it was determined to be a fractured left wrist. Also, the next morning EE's left knee swelled. Received another x-ray, no fractures.

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The full compliance file on LUCERNE

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.