Mining Incidents

Mine No. 3 Coal

Derby, VA, Wise County, VA  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4407187

Mine No. 3 has $41K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 15 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2009
Latest incident
Jun 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
139
citations
38
significant & substantial
$41,200
proposed penalties
$31,503
paid to date
76% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $9,697 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
51
inspections on record
1,429
inspection hours
9.7
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.
139 citations across 1,429 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mine No. 3 has $41K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 15 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.
$41K
proposed penalties
$32K
current assessed
$32K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
138 assessments are final orders; 15 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-12-15.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Mine No. 3 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.47 mg/m3 (95% compliant) across 181 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.
0.47
dust avg (mg/m3)
4.45
dust max (mg/m3)
95%
within 1.5 mg/m3
181
samples
Most recent sample: 2010-12-21.
Silica (quartz)
17.5
silica avg (%)
29.6
silica max (%)
24
samples
Most recent sample: 2010-09-20.
Noise
16%
over PEL
19
samples
Most recent sample: 2010-09-14.
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
2011 Q1 2,864 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 15,076 16 3 1061.3
2010 Q3 15,818 11 3 695.4
2010 Q2 15,133 4 1 264.3
2010 Q1 14,802 9 3 608.0
2009 Q4 17,516 36 12 2055.3
2009 Q3 18,012 23 5 1276.9
2009 Q2 11,614 14 6 1205.4
Show 8 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2009 Q1 8,601 14 1 1627.7
2008 Q4 251 6 1 23904.4
2008 Q3 1,788 2 1 1118.6
2008 Q2 1,352 4 2 2958.6
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 0 0 0
2007 Q2 0 0 0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2009 · 1 incident

June 8, 2009 VA · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Mill Branch Coal Corporation · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee was working with another person who was using a box cutter to open bags of rock dust. The other person accidentally struck the injured's left thumb resulting in a laceration which required sutures.

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The full compliance file on Mine No. 3

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.