Mining Incidents

Mine No. 2 Coal

N & N Mining, LLC · Underground
Controlled by Charles T Norman
Grundy, Buchanan County, VA  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4407261

Mine No. 2 has $59K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K 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 2009
371
citations
87
significant & substantial
$59,326
proposed penalties
$55,743
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,583 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
47
inspections on record
3,179
inspection hours
11.7
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.
371 citations across 3,179 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mine No. 2 has $59K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K 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.
$59K
proposed penalties
$59K
current assessed
$56K
paid to date
$4K
outstanding
366 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-12-09.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Mine No. 2 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.48 mg/m3 (95% compliant) across 333 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.
0.48
dust avg (mg/m3)
8.17
dust max (mg/m3)
95%
within 1.5 mg/m3
333
samples
Most recent sample: 2015-12-08.
Silica (quartz)
7.5
silica avg (%)
11.3
silica max (%)
30
samples
Most recent sample: 2015-12-17.
Noise
5%
over PEL
57
samples
Most recent sample: 2015-12-01.
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
2015 Q4 4,200 6 1 1428.6
2015 Q3 4,487 11 2 2451.5
2015 Q2 4,418 11 1 2489.8
2015 Q1 4,910 10 2 2036.7
2014 Q4 5,067 10 2 1973.6
2014 Q3 4,803 23 3 4788.7
2014 Q2 7,328 21 5 2865.7
2014 Q1 7,614 26 3 3414.8
Show 17 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q4 4,160 25 2 6009.6
2013 Q3 4,000 24 2 6000.0
2013 Q2 5,120 11 2 2148.4
2013 Q1 6,172 11 1 1782.2
2012 Q4 6,131 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 5,040 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 752 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 6,743 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 6,861 17 7 2477.8
2011 Q3 3,485 36 13 10330.0
2011 Q2 9,247 14 5 1514.0
2011 Q1 7,970 27 10 3387.7
2010 Q4 5,522 24 9 4346.3
2010 Q3 5,757 25 5 4342.5
2010 Q2 3,072 32 11 10416.7
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 1,400 7 1 5000.0

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 Mine No. 2

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.