Mining Incidents

Merritt Rogers Mine Coal

Controlled by Michael T Costello
Morris, Jefferson County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0102760

Merritt Rogers Mine 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
28
citations
8
significant & substantial
$2,325
proposed penalties
$2,325
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
39
inspections on record
459
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: 459 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Merritt Rogers Mine 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
28 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-09-06.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Merritt Rogers Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.53 mg/m3 (93% compliant) across 125 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.
0.53
dust avg (mg/m3)
4.92
dust max (mg/m3)
93%
within 1.5 mg/m3
125
samples
Most recent sample: 2007-09-06.
Silica (quartz)
10.5
silica avg (%)
25.5
silica max (%)
15
samples
Most recent sample: 2005-08-10.
Noise
4%
over PEL
26
samples
Most recent sample: 2007-02-22.
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
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 914 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 899 1 1 1112.3
2007 Q2 156 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 312 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 821 3 0 3654.1
2005 Q4 15,952 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 9,613 0 0 0.0
Show 17 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2005 Q2 11,511 1 1 86.9
2005 Q1 12,800 1 0 78.1
2004 Q4 13,110 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 12,609 1 0 79.3
2004 Q2 12,116 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 14,102 2 1 141.8
2003 Q4 12,504 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 14,100 3 0 212.8
2003 Q2 12,100 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 9,641 3 1 311.2
2002 Q4 11,220 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 9,450 1 0 105.8
2002 Q2 8,164 4 2 490.0
2002 Q1 9,321 3 2 321.9
2001 Q4 7,320 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 7,106 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,210 1 0 826.4

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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The full compliance file on Merritt Rogers Mine

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.