Mining Incidents

No 57 Mine Coal

Nufac Mining Company, Inc · Underground
Controlled by James C Justice III
Kimball, Mcdowell County, WV  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 4608786

No 57 Mine has $529K in proposed MSHA penalties and $132K outstanding across 36 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2017–2022
Latest incident
May 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
599
citations
93
significant & substantial
$528,571
proposed penalties
$181,267
paid to date
34% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $347,304 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
132
inspections on record
3,776
inspection hours
15.9
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.
599 citations across 3,776 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

No 57 Mine has $529K in proposed MSHA penalties and $132K outstanding across 36 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.
$529K
proposed penalties
$313K
current assessed
$181K
paid to date
$132K
outstanding
585 assessments are final orders; 36 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-12-05.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at No 57 Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.45 mg/m3 (98% compliant) across 388 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.
0.45
dust avg (mg/m3)
3.15
dust max (mg/m3)
98%
within 1.5 mg/m3
388
samples
Most recent sample: 2022-05-12.
Silica (quartz)
10.3
silica avg (%)
29.5
silica max (%)
48
samples
Most recent sample: 2022-03-16.
Noise
4%
over PEL
51
samples
Most recent sample: 2021-12-14.
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
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 1,040 8 1 7692.3
2022 Q3 10,546 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 24,017 17 1 707.8
2022 Q1 3,600 40 8 11111.1
Show 27 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q4 19,618 30 8 1529.2
2021 Q3 21,900 36 3 1643.8
2021 Q2 23,449 47 10 2004.3
2021 Q1 22,672 69 3 3043.4
2020 Q4 11,355 8 0 704.5
2020 Q2 742 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 820 1 0 1219.5
2019 Q4 21,083 27 4 1280.7
2019 Q3 24,044 29 1 1206.1
2019 Q2 14,146 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 26,747 27 3 1009.5
2018 Q4 29,628 14 0 472.5
2018 Q3 20,198 38 5 1881.4
2018 Q2 10 1 0 100000.0
2018 Q1 22,464 48 11 2136.8
2017 Q4 19,305 71 17 3677.8
2017 Q3 18,553 19 9 1024.1
2017 Q2 900 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,039 13 5 12512.0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 0 0 0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2001 Q1 3,050 4 0 1311.5
2000 Q4 3,738 7 0 1872.7
2000 Q3 4,361 6 1 1375.8
2000 Q2 1,402 12 0 8559.2
2000 Q1 5,079 7 1 1378.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2022 · 1 incident

May 24, 2022 WV · Coal scoop tram operator, load/haul/dump operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Nufac Mining Company, Inc · Struck by falling object

EE, scoop operator was assisting the electrician in putting on a shuttlecar tire. The tire was leaning against the frame of the shuttlecar. EE was apparently sitting against the rib when the tire fell over striking EE on the lower left leg. The accident occurred in the #5 entry, outby the face area, feeder line.

2018 · 1 incident

June 1, 2018 WV · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Nufac Mining Company, Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Was installing a shear jack on the 14-15 CM. Hand was pinched between the jack and pan.

2017 · 2 incidents

August 28, 2017 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Nufac Mining Company, Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee had finished bolting No. 2 Left, and was crawling back to deck to move roof bolter. Right knee popped.

August 14, 2017 WV · Coal scoop tram operator, load/haul/dump operator ELECTRICAL
Nufac Mining Company, Inc · Contact with electrical current

EE was tramming the scoop, the bucket of the scoop hooked the pump cable that was hung damaging the cable. EE got out of scoop to hang the cable and when EE grabbed the cable EE got an electrical shock.

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The full compliance file on No 57 Mine

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.