Mining Incidents

No 1 Slope Coal

Harris Coal Co. · Underground
Controlled by Kerry Harris
Valley View, Dauphin County, PA  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 3609138

No 1 Slope has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $879 outstanding across 6 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
21
citations
8
significant & substantial
$1,293
proposed penalties
$65
paid to date
5% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,228 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
71
inspections on record
625
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: 625 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

No 1 Slope has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $879 outstanding across 6 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$944
current assessed
$65
paid to date
$879
outstanding
15 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-08-21.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at No 1 Slope shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.59 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 8 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.
0.59
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.22
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
8
samples
Most recent sample: 2006-08-28.
Silica (quartz)
0.6
silica avg (%)
0.6
silica max (%)
1
samples
Most recent sample: 2006-05-16.
Noise
0%
over PEL
7
samples
Most recent sample: 2006-08-28.
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
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q2 120 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 0 4 0
2007 Q3 120 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,440 4 4 2777.8
2006 Q1 1,080 1 1 925.9
2005 Q4 120 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 75 0 0 0.0
Show 8 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2005 Q2 180 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 86 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 115 4 2 34782.6
2004 Q3 130 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 180 2 0 11111.1
2003 Q4 240 1 0 4166.7
2003 Q3 185 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 240 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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The full compliance file on No 1 Slope

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.