Mining Incidents

No 2 Slope Coal

S & J Coal Company · Underground
Controlled by Kerry Harris
Lincoln, Schuylkill County, PA  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 3608299

No 2 Slope has $48K in proposed MSHA penalties and $10K 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 2002
75
citations
31
significant & substantial
$48,270
proposed penalties
$5,364
paid to date
11% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $42,906 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
128
inspections on record
2,090
inspection hours
3.6
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.
75 citations across 2,090 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

No 2 Slope has $48K in proposed MSHA penalties and $10K 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.
$48K
proposed penalties
$16K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$10K
outstanding
71 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-10-11.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at No 2 Slope shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.14 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 283 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.
0.14
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.89
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
283
samples
Most recent sample: 2011-10-11.
Silica (quartz)
2.9
silica avg (%)
4.3
silica max (%)
4
samples
Most recent sample: 2005-04-22.
Noise
0%
over PEL
38
samples
Most recent sample: 2011-04-19.
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
2011 Q3 1,680 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,160 2 0 925.9
2011 Q1 455 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 60 0 0 0.0
Show 32 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q4 40 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 20 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 690 2 0 2898.6
2007 Q4 1,670 3 0 1796.4
2007 Q3 1,712 2 1 1168.2
2007 Q2 2,450 10 6 4081.6
2007 Q1 2,240 1 0 446.4
2006 Q4 2,180 1 0 458.7
2006 Q3 1,890 2 1 1058.2
2006 Q2 2,350 10 8 4255.3
2006 Q1 2,160 5 3 2314.8
2005 Q4 3,370 6 3 1780.4
2005 Q3 2,450 2 0 816.3
2005 Q2 710 5 3 7042.3
2005 Q1 1,500 1 0 666.7
2004 Q4 700 1 0 1428.6
2004 Q3 725 1 0 1379.3
2004 Q2 580 3 1 5172.4
2004 Q1 570 5 3 8771.9
2003 Q4 590 3 0 5084.7
2003 Q3 800 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 2,440 1 1 409.8
2003 Q1 1,800 2 1 1111.1
2002 Q4 1,870 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 2,120 3 0 1415.1
2002 Q2 150 2 0 13333.3
2002 Q1 960 1 0 1041.7
2001 Q4 640 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 27 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 55 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 30 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 2 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.