Mining Incidents

Mine No. 2 Coal

Controlled by Darvin Rowe
Jolo, Mcdowell County, WV  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4608955

Mine No. 2 has $54K in proposed MSHA penalties and $14K 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
2009–2012
Latest incident
Nov 2012
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
296
citations
53
significant & substantial
$54,043
proposed penalties
$39,552
paid to date
73% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $14,491 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
63
inspections on record
2,596
inspection hours
11.4
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.
296 citations across 2,596 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mine No. 2 has $54K in proposed MSHA penalties and $14K 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.
$54K
proposed penalties
$54K
current assessed
$40K
paid to date
$14K
outstanding
291 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-11-25.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Mine No. 2 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.54 mg/m3 (92% compliant) across 277 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.
0.54
dust avg (mg/m3)
8.96
dust max (mg/m3)
92%
within 1.5 mg/m3
277
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-11-04.
Silica (quartz)
5.7
silica avg (%)
9.3
silica max (%)
12
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-11-14.
Noise
0%
over PEL
28
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-09-11.
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 0 0 0
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q2 0 0 0
2015 Q1 2,289 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 4,996 8 3 1601.3
2014 Q3 4,956 10 0 2017.8
2014 Q2 5,254 14 1 2664.6
2014 Q1 4,717 8 0 1696.0
Show 25 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q4 5,233 6 0 1146.6
2013 Q3 5,062 13 4 2568.2
2013 Q2 4,716 4 0 848.2
2013 Q1 4,442 9 0 2026.1
2012 Q4 4,587 3 0 654.0
2012 Q3 4,925 9 4 1827.4
2012 Q2 4,724 10 0 2116.9
2012 Q1 4,446 11 1 2474.1
2011 Q4 3,616 13 1 3595.1
2011 Q2 2,937 16 1 5447.7
2011 Q1 2,253 8 0 3550.8
2010 Q4 2,166 9 1 4155.1
2010 Q3 2,572 6 0 2332.8
2010 Q2 6,990 2 0 286.1
2010 Q1 1,828 13 2 7111.6
2009 Q4 2,516 18 8 7154.2
2009 Q3 2,598 15 3 5773.7
2009 Q2 2,492 22 5 8828.3
2009 Q1 2,273 7 0 3079.6
2008 Q4 1,914 6 4 3134.8
2008 Q3 2,100 7 3 3333.3
2008 Q2 622 13 2 20900.3
2007 Q1 1,510 17 8 11258.3
2006 Q4 420 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2012 · 3 incidents

November 17, 2012 WV · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Resurrection Coal Company, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE was running a 270 tractor that pulls coal in a ram car and had made a turn thru an intersection and had his right arm hanging out of the deck and over the bumper when the ram car bumped out against the tractor bumper it mashed his arm in between the two resulting in an injury he didn't think he hurt it but it started to swell up and decided to get it checked.

July 3, 2012 WV · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Resurrection Coal Company, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

We were taking a 10' cut by 16' wide out of #5 heading where we were going under a hollow and as we were cleaning up the cut I saw some of the top drip from the rib and we stopped and backed miner out and was going to set some cribs but in about 10 mins. it started to fall from the face out.

March 23, 2012 WV · Coal INUNDATION
Resurrection Coal Company, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

We were starting a cut in #7 heading and was cutting 10' on right side (curtain side) on blowing vent. When the right corner cut thru into a unknown old mine, there was some water every-one evacuated no one was hurt and no equipment was damaged no ch4 or bad air was in old mine.

2009 · 1 incident

November 9, 2009 WV · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Resurrection Coal Company, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

After taking a cut right hand break out of the #7 entry the miner moved to another cut and the bolter operater seen the place was working and backed the bolter out and called for the boss and the place started working more and then fell starting from the inter into the right brk. they had just started the fall was approx. 8 ft wide, 4-5 ft thick and about 25 ft long.

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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.