Mining Incidents

Mountainside Wash Plant Coal

Controlled by Damian Caldwell
Clairfield, Claiborne County, TN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4003181

Mountainside Wash Plant has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $60 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2001–2002
Latest incident
Mar 2002
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
51
citations
4
significant & substantial
$3,471
proposed penalties
$3,411
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $60 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
32
inspections on record
571
inspection hours
n/a
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: 571 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mountainside Wash Plant has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $60 outstanding across 2 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$60
outstanding
51 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-11-15.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Mountainside Wash Plant shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.09 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 29 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.
0.09
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.39
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
29
samples
Most recent sample: 2008-04-29.
Noise
0%
over PEL
23
samples
Most recent sample: 2008-04-29.
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
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 2,390 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,212 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,598 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,274 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,095 3 2 2739.7
2007 Q3 1,095 5 1 4566.2
2007 Q2 1,327 0 0 0.0
Show 22 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2007 Q1 1,237 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,415 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,254 8 0 6379.6
2006 Q2 1,423 1 0 702.7
2006 Q1 1,414 2 0 1414.4
2005 Q4 1,591 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,304 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,304 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,260 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,490 11 0 7382.6
2004 Q3 1,601 6 0 3747.7
2004 Q2 1,362 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,371 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,956 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,686 2 0 1186.2
2003 Q2 1,400 6 1 4285.7
2003 Q1 1,467 3 0 2045.0
2002 Q4 1,405 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,308 2 0 1529.1
2002 Q2 1,308 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,107 2 0 1806.7
2001 Q4 13 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2002 · 1 incident

March 13, 2002 TN · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mountainside Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS MOVING WOODEN BLOCKS & ALSO PULLING WATER HOSE, WHEN NOTICED PAIN IN STOMACH.

2001 · 1 incident

December 10, 2001 TN · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mountainside Coal Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE PLACING A PIPE ACROSS POND DAM; CHAIN SLIPPED OFF OF PIPE, PIPE HIT EE ON OUTSIDE OF L. KNEE.

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The full compliance file on Mountainside Wash Plant

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.