Mining Incidents

No. 4 Coal

Controlled by Metinvest B V
BREAKS, Buchanan County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4407116

No. 4 has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $60 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2005
Latest incident
Sep 2005
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
58
citations
31
significant & substantial
$7,757
proposed penalties
$7,697
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $60 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
20
inspections on record
516
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: 516 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. 4 has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $60 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$60
outstanding
57 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-06-10.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at No. 4 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.31 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 48 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.
0.31
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.34
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
48
samples
Most recent sample: 2007-12-13.
Silica (quartz)
10.8
silica avg (%)
16.3
silica max (%)
8
samples
Most recent sample: 2007-10-17.
Noise
14%
over PEL
21
samples
Most recent sample: 2007-10-04.
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 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 0 0 0
2008 Q2 2,360 5 1 2118.6
Show 13 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 7,871 7 2 889.3
2007 Q3 9,986 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 15,999 9 6 562.5
2007 Q1 19,279 1 1 51.9
2006 Q4 17,980 12 8 667.4
2006 Q3 19,104 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 12,399 11 9 887.2
2006 Q1 8,913 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 8,229 5 1 607.6
2005 Q3 10,254 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 9,181 6 3 653.5
2005 Q1 4,101 2 0 487.7
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2005 · 2 incidents

September 27, 2005 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Surface Minerals Company · Struck against a moving object

Employee was backing a loaded Cat.777 hauler when he backed onto a berm and the truck turned over into a dry pond.

May 2, 2005 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Surface Minerals Company · Fall from machine

Employee was exiting a dozer and tripped on the hand grip located on the tilt jack causing him to fall approximately three feet to the ground hitting on his back.

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The full compliance file on No. 4

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.