Mining Incidents

Nme Coal

Estep Coal Company Inc · Underground
Controlled by James Wayne Estep
Sandlick, Dickenson County, VA  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4406979

Nme has $18K in proposed MSHA penalties and $138 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
2001–2006
Latest incident
Jun 2006
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
215
citations
63
significant & substantial
$17,583
proposed penalties
$17,415
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $168 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
109
inspections on record
2,863
inspection hours
7.5
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.
215 citations across 2,863 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Nme has $18K in proposed MSHA penalties and $138 outstanding across 1 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.
$18K
proposed penalties
$18K
current assessed
$17K
paid to date
$138
outstanding
213 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-02-28.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Nme shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.53 mg/m3 (97% compliant) across 504 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.
0.53
dust avg (mg/m3)
3.38
dust max (mg/m3)
97%
within 1.5 mg/m3
504
samples
Most recent sample: 2007-03-07.
Silica (quartz)
5.2
silica avg (%)
14.2
silica max (%)
40
samples
Most recent sample: 2007-02-22.
Noise
3%
over PEL
37
samples
Most recent sample: 2005-10-24.
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
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q2 10,804 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 10,916 10 1 916.1
2006 Q4 10,818 6 1 554.6
2006 Q3 10,628 19 8 1787.7
2006 Q2 10,671 24 6 2249.1
2006 Q1 10,762 5 2 464.6
2005 Q4 10,773 9 3 835.4
Show 23 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2005 Q3 10,760 13 4 1208.2
2005 Q2 10,740 19 4 1769.1
2005 Q1 11,170 18 2 1611.5
2004 Q4 11,300 6 4 531.0
2004 Q3 10,830 6 5 554.0
2004 Q2 10,980 5 2 455.4
2004 Q1 11,002 7 2 636.2
2003 Q4 11,030 3 2 272.0
2003 Q3 11,255 7 1 621.9
2003 Q2 11,085 4 0 360.8
2003 Q1 10,968 7 3 638.2
2002 Q4 11,138 3 2 269.3
2002 Q3 11,180 6 1 536.7
2002 Q2 11,137 4 1 359.2
2002 Q1 11,398 6 1 526.4
2001 Q4 11,540 4 1 346.6
2001 Q3 11,579 4 1 345.5
2001 Q2 10,945 6 0 548.2
2001 Q1 10,920 4 0 366.3
2000 Q4 11,073 3 3 270.9
2000 Q3 9,894 2 1 202.1
2000 Q2 9,530 5 2 524.7
2000 Q1 733 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

7 on file

2006 · 2 incidents

June 23, 2006 VA · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Estep Coal Company Inc · Struck by falling object

When the injured person started his drill steel in top a small piece of rock fell striking him on the hand.

2005 · 1 incident

2003 · 2 incidents

September 11, 2003 VA · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
Estep Coal Company Inc · Struck by falling object

THE INJURED PERSON HAD HIS HAND ON TOP OF CANOPY, WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL CUTTING HIS FINGER, LITTLE FINGER & THE ONE NEXT TO LITTLE FINGER.

2002 · 1 incident

December 9, 2002 VA · Coal beltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor rider SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Estep Coal Company Inc · Fall from machine

THE INJURED PERSON WAS CROSSING BELTLINE WHEN HE FELL AND HURT HIS BACK AND LEG.

2001 · 1 incident

June 6, 2001 VA · Coal laborer, bull gang, faceman, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler MACHINERY
Estep Coal Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS ON TOP OF THE MINER TO REMOVE A ROCK FOULED IN THE CONVEYOR CHAIN WHEN THE MINER OPERATOR MOVED THE MINER CATCHING THE EE BETWEEN THE ROOF AND MACHINE BRUISING HIS KNEE AND BACK.

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The full compliance file on Nme

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.