Mining Incidents

Mine No. 1 Coal

Harness Coal Company LLC · Underground
Controlled by Thurman Harness
Robbins, Scott County, TN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4003141

Mine No. 1 has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $7K 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
2002–2003
Latest incident
Apr 2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
89
citations
44
significant & substantial
$7,094
proposed penalties
$66
paid to date
1% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $7,028 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
37
inspections on record
1,339
inspection hours
6.6
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.
89 citations across 1,339 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mine No. 1 has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $7K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$66
paid to date
$7K
outstanding
78 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-06-08.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Mine No. 1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.71 mg/m3 (93% compliant) across 29 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.
0.71
dust avg (mg/m3)
8.38
dust max (mg/m3)
93%
within 1.5 mg/m3
29
samples
Most recent sample: 2004-07-12.
Noise
0%
over PEL
3
samples
Most recent sample: 2003-09-16.
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
2004 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q2 2,016 42 23 20833.3
2004 Q1 1,920 12 6 6250.0
2003 Q4 1,930 9 5 4663.2
2003 Q3 1,440 4 2 2777.8
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2001 Q3 0 0 0
2001 Q2 0 0 0
Show 3 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 0 0 0
2000 Q3 0 3 2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2003 · 1 incident

2002 · 1 incident

November 4, 2002 TN · Coal OTHER
WEST FRK 2 LLC · Accident type, without injuries

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The full compliance file on Mine No. 1

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.