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Oceana Plant and Loadout: 66 MSHA citations Coal

Oceana, Wyoming County, WV  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 4605893

Oceana Plant and Loadout has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $257 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
16
Years on record
1983–2017
Latest incident
Apr 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
66
citations
11
significant & substantial
$7,000
proposed penalties
$6,743
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $257 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Wyoming County Coal LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
73
inspections on record
1,438
inspection hours
4.6
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.
66 citations across 1,438 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Oceana Plant and Loadout has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $257 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$257
outstanding
63 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-12-06.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘ Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
17.2%
significant & substantial
10.9%
high negligence or reckless
17.2%
reasonably likely or greater
23.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 1.6% none, 31.2% low, 56.2% moderate, 10.9% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Oceana Plant and Loadout shows 100% of 73 respirable coal dust samples met the 1.5 mg/m3 standard.

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.

Last sampled: 2009-04-15, 17 years ago
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
73
samples
0.69
dust max (mg/m3)
73 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 0 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER32
  • CAR DROPPER14
  • ELECTRICIAN10

Noise
ⓘ The share counts noise samples whose measured dose exceeded the 90 dBA permissible exposure limit. It describes the sampled workplace, not what reached the miner's ear: hearing conservation programs and the hearing protection worn during the shift are recorded separately and are not reflected here.

Last sampled: 2009-03-24, 17 years ago
0%
over PEL
26
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER11
  • CAR DROPPER5
  • CAR TRIMMER/CAR LOADER4
See US mines ranked by noise samples over the legal limit.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.
Health sampling trend
ⓘ 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 by year
ⓘ 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.
Year within 1.5 mg/m3 samples
2009 100% 5
2008 100% 10
2006 100% 10
2005 100% 5
2004 100% 5
2003 100% 15
2002 100% 10
2001 100% 8
2000 100% 5
Noise by year
Year over PEL samples
2009 0% 2
2008 0% 5
2006 0% 5
2003 0% 10
2000 0% 4
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.

Oceana Plant and Loadout recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2006.

Injury rate, 2006
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 4.87 and the all-US-mining average was 3.91 cases per 100 workers.
In West Virginia, coal mining averaged 5.26 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2006 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2005 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 * 4.40 0.00 0.000
2001 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2000 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Pioneer Fuel Corp 1978 to 1988
  2. Northern Resources Inc 1988 to 1998
  3. Tmr Loading & Processing Corp 1998 to 2019
  4. Wyoming County Coal LLC 2019 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2022 3
2011 5
2010 6
2009 8
2008 9
2007 12
2006 15
2005 22
2004 21
2003 23
2002 24
2001 24
2000 26
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Oceana Plant and Loadout sits in Wyoming County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 11.2% of county employment.

Local economic context
ⓘ County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Wyoming County, West Virginia · Population 20,948
11.2%
Mining share of county employment
$48,038
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2022 Q3 0 0 0
2022 Q2 2,016 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1,892 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 2,257 2 0 886.1
2010 Q3 1,737 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 2,205 1 0 453.5
2010 Q1 2,258 2 0 885.7
2009 Q4 2,081 0 0 0.0
Show 37 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2009 Q3 2,052 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,499 1 0 667.1
2008 Q4 4,431 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 4,511 1 0 221.7
2008 Q2 4,680 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 5,262 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 5,077 2 0 393.9
2007 Q2 6,816 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 7,798 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 6,733 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 7,890 5 1 633.7
2006 Q2 8,711 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 10,787 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 10,756 3 0 278.9
2005 Q3 11,658 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 11,165 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 12,942 1 1 77.3
2004 Q4 12,710 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 10,246 1 1 97.6
2004 Q2 11,434 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 11,477 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 12,786 1 0 78.2
2003 Q3 10,981 3 0 273.2
2003 Q2 10,339 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 12,175 2 0 164.3
2002 Q4 10,219 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 11,976 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 11,902 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 11,407 2 0 175.3
2001 Q4 11,132 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 10,978 2 0 182.2
2001 Q2 12,609 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 12,109 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 13,547 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 11,596 2 0 172.5
2000 Q2 12,053 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 13,597 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

16 on file

2017 · 1 incident

2010 · 1 incident

July 28, 2010 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Tmr Loading & Processing Corp · Struck against a moving object

While dumping a load of coal, the truck was leaning too much to the passenger side resulting in both truck & trailer to overturn onto the passenger side.

2008 · 2 incidents

September 22, 2008 WV · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Tmr Loading & Processing Corp · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Machine operator was adjusting seat and lowered seat catching fingertip in seat housing resulting in laceration of finger and breaking of metacarpal of finger.

May 15, 2008 WV · Coal pumper POWERED HAULAGE
Tmr Loading & Processing Corp · Struck by powered moving object

Employee attempted to drop out 29 empty rail cars from empty track to 40. He could not control cars - went by 40 and through crossing into load track, thus colliding with 28 loaded cars. 1) weather wet & rainy. 2) Employee did not follow policy in that he brought 29 empty cars when policy calls for a maximum of 12 cars per 1 dropper.

2005 · 2 incidents

April 14, 2005 WV · Coal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Tmr Loading & Processing Corp · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE WAS LIFTING 40-LB. SAMPLE BAGS IN BACK OF COMPANY TRUCK. AFTER LIFTING SEVERAL SAMPLES, EE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER AND NECK.

2002 · 1 incident

April 29, 2002 WV · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS
Tmr Loading & Processing Corp · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EMPLOYEE WAS AWARDED 5% PPD BENEFITS FOR OCCUPATIONAL PNEUMOCONIOSIS.

2001 · 1 incident

September 19, 2001 WV · Coal truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Tmr Loading & Processing Corp · Struck against a moving object

TRUCK CROSSING RR TRACKS AND WAS HIT BY TRAIN ENGINE. DRIVER WAS THROWN AROUND IN THE CAB CAUSING INJURY TO LOWER BACK, A BROKE TOE & LACERATIONS TO FOREHEADF. DRIVERSAID HE COULDN'T SEE ENGIN E UNTIL HE WAS ON THE TRACK. WHEN HE SAW THE TRAIN HE STOPPED & TRIED TO BACK UP. AN UNCOUPLED TRAIN ON THE OTHER TRACK WAS BLOCKING HIS VIEW.

2000 · 1 incident

March 21, 2000 WV · Coal security guard, watchman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Tmr Loading & Processing Corp · Fall to the walkway or working surface

WHILE WALKING FROM SECURITY BLDG TO GATE EE LOST HIS FOOTING ON WET GROUND, FALLING AND HITTING ON HIS LOWER BACK. HE STATED HE WAS OK, FINISHED HIS SHIFT WORKED THE NEXT DAY. UPON HIS NEXT SC HEDULED SHIFT ON 3/26/00, HE ADVISE HIS DR PUT HIM OUT OF WORK FOR TWO WEEKS.

1999 · 1 incident

May 11, 1999 WV · Coal POWERED HAULAGE
Tmr Loading & Processing Corp · Struck against a moving object

MR STANLEY,(SALESMAN FOR D.A. LUBRICANT CO.) WASTRAVELING UP HAUL ROAD ON PASSENGER SIDE SEAT OFPICKUP. A PLANT EMPLOYEE WAS WATERING ROAD WITH AN ENDLOADER. THE ENDLOADER BACKED UP APPROX. 12 0 FEET AND STRUCK THE PICKUP'S RIGHT FRONT SIDE,TRAPPING MR. STANLEY'S FOOT IN THE CAB. HE WAS EXTRICATED AND TRANSPORTED TO RALEIGH GENERAL HOSPITAL.

1998 · 1 incident

1997 · 1 incident

1994 · 1 incident

October 1, 1994 WV · Coal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Northern Resources Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EE WAS HELPING INSTALL A NEW BELT ON THE BELT PRESS. HE WAS PULLING OLD BELT OFF WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN.

1991 · 1 incident

December 3, 1991 WV · Coal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Northern Resources Inc · Fall from machine

INJURED WAS GETTING OFF DOZER WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL OFF THE MACHINE AND STRIKE HIS SHOULDER ON DOZER BLADE

1988 · 1 incident

February 29, 1988 WV · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman FIRE
Pioneer Fuel Corp · Contact with hot objects or substances

SOME EMPLOYEES WERE DOING SOME SUTTING ON THE FLOOR WHEN SOME SPARKS CAUGHT A BOX ON FIRE ON THE 1ST FLOOR. HE WENT TO PUT I TOUT SOME PVC GAVE IN THE BOX INGINTED CAUSING THE BURNS.

1983 · 1 incident

May 4, 1983 WV · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator ELECTRICAL
Pioneer Fuel Corp · Contact with electrical current

THE DUMP OPERATOR- THURMAN DICKERSON- SPOTTED THE COAL TRUCK UNDER A HIGH POWER LINE TO DUMP THE LOAD IN THE STOCKPILE AREA. THURMAN DICKERSON POSSIBLY STEPPED ON THE FIRST STEP OF THE COAL TR UCK & WAS KNOCKED TO THE GROUND. THE BED MUST HAVE COME IN CONTACT WITH THE POWER LINE.