Moundsville Plant has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $924 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2024–2026
Latest incident
Jun 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2023
25
citations
8
significant & substantial
$4,371
proposed penalties
$3,447
paid to date
79% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $924 gap.
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.
Rate withheld: 309 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Moundsville Plant has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $924 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$924
outstanding
19 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-13.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘShares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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.
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘMany samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2026-04-14
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
30
samples
6
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz15
Respirable dust, <.1mg6
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz5
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (30)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2026-04-14
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz
1.95
Packaging Operations Worker
2026-04-14
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz
2.73
Packaging Operations Worker
2026-04-14
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz
3.03
Packaging Operations Worker
2026-04-14
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz
0.45
Packaging Operations Worker
2026-04-14
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz
0.71
Packaging Operations Worker
2025-10-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Forklift Operator
2025-10-08
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.42
Bagging Operator
2025-10-08
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.43
Bagging Operator
2025-10-08
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.39
Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-08-05
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
2.61
3.13
0.83
Utility Man
2025-08-05
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-08-05
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.64
Bagging Operator
2025-08-05
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.45
Bagging Operator
2025-01-14
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
Bagging Operator
2025-01-14
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Scale Man
2025-01-14
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.12
Forklift Operator
2024-11-20
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.23
Forklift Operator
2024-11-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2024-11-20
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.13
Bagging Operator
2024-11-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Bagging Operator
2024-05-02
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.21
10
0.02
Ball Mill Operator
2024-05-02
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.51
Bagging Operator
2024-05-02
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.83
Bagging Operator
2024-05-02
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Ball Mill Operator
2024-05-02
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.85
2.27
0.37
Forklift Operator
2024-05-02
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.83
2.56
0.71
Forklift Operator
2023-12-12
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.45
1.72
0.26
Ball Mill Operator
2023-12-12
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.3
2.7
0.48
Bagging Operator
2023-12-12
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.24
Ball Mill Operator
2023-12-12
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.25
Bagging Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Moundsville Plant recorded 4.82 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
4.82
total case rate
4.82
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In West Virginia, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.73 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2025 *
4.82
4.82
0.000
2024 *
5.05
0.00
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
24
2025
18
2024
18
2023
17
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Moundsville Plant sits in Marshall County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 3.9% of county employment.
Local economic context
ⓘCounty figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Marshall County, West Virginia · Population 30,129
3.9%
Mining share of county employment
$60,329
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2026 Q2
15,478
2
2
129.2
2026 Q1
12,457
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
12,607
1
0
79.3
2025 Q3
10,819
1
0
92.4
2025 Q2
8,829
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
9,241
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
9,298
2
0
215.1
2024 Q3
7,052
0
0
0.0
Show 4 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
10,905
4
0
366.8
2024 Q1
12,341
3
2
243.1
2023 Q4
10,533
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
6,190
6
2
969.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
3 on file
2026 · 1 incident
June 16, 2026WV · Metal/Non-Metalsteel worker, iron metal worker, iron workerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
while working on the 3rd floor of rail load-out building, the worker stepped backwards not realizing there was a hole opening in the floor. The worker fell through towards the floor below but caught self and was able to pull self up enough to roll out onto EE's stomach until help arrived. the hatch was left open by another company and not closed prior to work.
2025 · 1 incident
March 6, 2025WV · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Worker was shoveling spilled material underneath an enclosed conveyor and, forgetting that they were under the conveyor, stood up quickly and hit the back of their head on a sample valve that extended out of the bottom of the enclosed conveyor.
2024 · 1 incident
January 8, 2024WV · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Worker was cutting bags filled with barite above the hopper feeding the mill conveyor. While cutting the bags, the liner fell out of the outer bag (with material still in the liner) leading to the material banging the workers arm against the handrail.