Appalachia, Wise County,
VA
·
Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4407048
Mine No. 4 has $73K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 14 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2003–2007
Latest incident
Oct 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
347
citations
130
significant & substantial
$72,802
proposed penalties
$58,639
paid to date
81% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $14,163 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
87
inspections on record
2,592
inspection hours
13.4
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.
347 citations across 2,592 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Mine No. 4 has $73K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 14 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.
$73K
proposed penalties
$59K
current assessed
$59K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
342 assessments are final orders; 14 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-08-12.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
MSHA sampling at Mine No. 4 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.24 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 385 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.
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 Q3
6,058
9
2
1485.6
2008 Q2
10,451
39
14
3731.7
2008 Q1
10,221
7
1
684.9
2007 Q4
11,399
20
4
1754.5
2007 Q3
10,926
11
2
1006.8
2007 Q2
9,252
8
0
864.7
2007 Q1
10,064
8
6
794.9
2006 Q4
9,820
10
5
1018.3
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2006 Q3
9,231
23
6
2491.6
2006 Q2
11,411
9
3
788.7
2006 Q1
10,960
9
2
821.2
2005 Q4
8,849
14
3
1582.1
2005 Q3
8,998
6
4
666.8
2005 Q2
10,780
18
5
1669.8
2005 Q1
10,558
24
11
2273.2
2004 Q4
9,478
32
16
3376.2
2004 Q3
9,303
16
8
1719.9
2004 Q2
8,603
32
14
3719.6
2004 Q1
8,356
24
14
2872.2
2003 Q4
7,267
10
3
1376.1
2003 Q3
6,387
3
2
469.7
2003 Q2
7,445
5
1
671.6
2003 Q1
7,621
2
0
262.4
2002 Q4
8,701
5
3
574.6
2002 Q3
5,129
1
1
195.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file
2007 · 1 incident
October 16, 2007VA · Coalbeltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor riderSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE SETTING SPAD NEAR FACE. TWISTED HIP AND BRUISED HIP BONE.
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The full compliance file on Mine No. 4
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.