Mining Incidents

Penny #1 Coal

Controlled by Henry Comer
Midland, Sebastian County, AR  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0301569

Penny #1 has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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 2000
39
citations
9
significant & substantial
$4,996
proposed penalties
$4,996
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
84
inspections on record
1,158
inspection hours
3.4
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.
39 citations across 1,158 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Penny #1 has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
39 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-09-21.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Penny #1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.15 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 73 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.
0.15
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.77
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
73
samples
Most recent sample: 2017-05-26.
Noise
13%
over PEL
54
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-04-03.
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
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 133 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 446 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 435 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 422 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 310 1 0 3225.8
2016 Q2 163 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 432 0 0 0.0
Show 64 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2015 Q4 780 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 104 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 49 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 45 2 0 44444.4
2014 Q4 718 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 212 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 162 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 3 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 412 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,251 2 0 1598.7
2013 Q1 1,126 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,474 5 0 3392.1
2012 Q3 1,280 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,338 1 0 747.4
2012 Q1 1,072 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,184 1 0 844.6
2011 Q3 1,376 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,279 3 0 2345.6
2011 Q1 1,233 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,158 1 0 863.6
2010 Q3 551 2 0 3629.8
2010 Q2 79 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 176 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,062 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 612 1 0 1634.0
2009 Q2 539 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 288 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 260 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 508 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 221 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 321 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 315 3 1 9523.8
2007 Q3 482 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 290 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 365 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 89 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 558 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 720 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 726 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 729 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 922 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 786 1 1 1272.3
2005 Q1 760 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 774 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,016 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,142 2 1 1751.3
2004 Q1 1,177 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,333 3 0 2250.6
2003 Q3 1,901 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,524 2 0 1312.3
2003 Q1 1,296 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,152 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,467 1 0 681.7
2002 Q2 810 2 2 2469.1
2002 Q1 728 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 916 1 1 1091.7
2001 Q3 608 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 982 1 0 1018.3
2001 Q1 672 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 788 1 1 1269.0
2000 Q3 408 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 672 2 2 2976.2
2000 Q1 680 1 0 1470.6

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 Penny #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.