Mining Incidents

Page #1 Coal

Mountain Fuels Inc. · Surface
Vansant, Buchanan County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4407412

Page #1 has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2022
Latest incident
Dec 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2022
12
citations
4
significant & substantial
$1,780
proposed penalties
$1,780
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2022
6
inspections on record
216
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: 216 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Page #1 has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-12-20.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Page #1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.04 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 32 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.
0.04
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.21
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
32
samples
Most recent sample: 2024-01-23.
Silica (quartz)
7.5
silica avg (%)
7.5
silica max (%)
1
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-08-03.
Noise
0%
over PEL
9
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-01-24.
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 Q1 2,988 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 7,245 1 0 138.0
2023 Q3 6,671 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 7,639 2 0 261.8
2023 Q1 6,766 1 0 147.8
2022 Q4 7,000 5 2 714.3
2022 Q3 7,963 3 2 376.7
2022 Q2 4,355 0 0 0.0
Show 1 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q1 1,626 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2022 · 1 incident

December 13, 2022 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Mountain Fuels Inc. · Struck against a moving object

Employee lost control of Broce Broom ran thru a ditch and overturned, the employee was taken to the ER where EE was examined and found EE had bruised ribs was later released and a return to work was issued by the Doctor for 12-19-22

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The full compliance file on Page #1

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.