Mining Incidents

Mine No. 6 Coal

Darty Leasing, Inc. · Underground
Controlled by Billy R Daugherty
Iaeger, Mcdowell County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4609069

Mine No. 6 has $550K in proposed MSHA penalties and $198K outstanding across 25 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2007–2013
Latest incident
Sep 2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
695
citations
159
significant & substantial
$549,591
proposed penalties
$262,773
paid to date
48% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $286,818 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
74
inspections on record
4,803
inspection hours
14.5
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.
695 citations across 4,803 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mine No. 6 has $550K in proposed MSHA penalties and $198K outstanding across 25 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.
$550K
proposed penalties
$461K
current assessed
$263K
paid to date
$198K
outstanding
676 assessments are final orders; 25 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-08-10.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Mine No. 6 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.51 mg/m3 (96% compliant) across 567 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.
0.51
dust avg (mg/m3)
9.51
dust max (mg/m3)
96%
within 1.5 mg/m3
567
samples
Most recent sample: 2015-11-19.
Silica (quartz)
4.0
silica avg (%)
8.3
silica max (%)
33
samples
Most recent sample: 2015-08-05.
Noise
0%
over PEL
48
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-11-04.
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
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
Show 45 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 7,555 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 9,417 20 4 2123.8
2015 Q2 10,478 32 12 3054.0
2015 Q1 7,377 50 14 6777.8
2014 Q4 12,652 30 4 2371.2
2014 Q3 11,548 47 14 4070.0
2014 Q2 12,444 44 7 3535.8
2014 Q1 10,344 31 4 2996.9
2013 Q4 11,610 16 2 1378.1
2013 Q3 10,936 11 3 1005.9
2013 Q2 9,444 13 0 1376.5
2013 Q1 8,616 21 5 2437.3
2012 Q4 9,042 16 1 1769.5
2012 Q3 6,872 15 1 2182.8
2012 Q2 6,619 7 2 1057.6
2012 Q1 6,196 9 1 1452.6
2011 Q4 6,096 12 3 1968.5
2011 Q3 5,348 12 4 2243.8
2011 Q2 6,477 9 4 1389.5
2011 Q1 5,477 12 3 2191.0
2010 Q4 7,273 11 4 1512.4
2010 Q3 6,094 15 4 2461.4
2010 Q2 6,990 22 6 3147.4
2010 Q1 6,123 34 10 5552.8
2009 Q4 6,529 35 10 5360.7
2009 Q3 5,847 24 8 4104.7
2009 Q2 6,144 7 0 1139.3
2009 Q1 5,166 4 0 774.3
2008 Q4 5,300 11 2 2075.5
2008 Q3 4,699 16 1 3405.0
2008 Q2 4,457 21 5 4711.7
2008 Q1 3,923 12 1 3058.9
2007 Q3 4,342 2 1 460.6
2007 Q2 5,122 5 2 976.2
2007 Q1 4,622 1 0 216.4
2006 Q4 5,668 15 5 2646.4
2006 Q3 4,338 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 3,153 8 1 2537.3
2006 Q1 2,296 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 2,849 11 2 3861.0
2005 Q3 2,354 1 0 424.8
2005 Q2 0 0 0
2005 Q1 1,056 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2013 · 1 incident

September 5, 2013 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Darty Leasing, Inc. · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

The injured person said he took a bar and was prizing area real hard on the ARTS shields to expand them and strained lower back. Then when he started to crawl his back hurt real bad. He came outside.

2007 · 1 incident

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The full compliance file on Mine No. 6

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.