Mining Incidents

Pit Number 2 Coal

D & E Mining LLC · Surface
Flat Rock, Alabama, Jackson County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103301

Pit Number 2 has $40K in proposed MSHA penalties and $37K 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
2006–2011
Latest incident
Oct 2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
73
citations
16
significant & substantial
$40,171
proposed penalties
$3,621
paid to date
9% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $36,550 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
46
inspections on record
772
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: 772 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Pit Number 2 has $40K in proposed MSHA penalties and $37K 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.
$40K
proposed penalties
$40K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$37K
outstanding
71 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-07-01.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Pit Number 2 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.19 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.
0.19
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.86
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
48
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-07-09.
Silica (quartz)
10.3
silica avg (%)
11.4
silica max (%)
3
samples
Most recent sample: 2008-07-01.
Noise
27%
over PEL
37
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-07-09.
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
2012 Q4 24,541 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 0 2 1
2012 Q2 0 0 0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 2,489 16 5 6428.3
2011 Q3 2,750 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 419 1 0 2386.6
2010 Q4 4,299 0 0 0.0
Show 21 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2010 Q3 2,073 1 0 482.4
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 515 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 16,957 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 19,341 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 17,414 7 1 402.0
2008 Q1 3,876 3 0 774.0
2007 Q4 11,333 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 10,747 2 0 186.1
2007 Q2 18,977 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 19,304 4 0 207.2
2006 Q4 7,366 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 8,654 9 1 1040.0
2006 Q2 7,521 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 7,583 1 0 131.9
2005 Q4 9,174 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 8,003 6 0 749.7
2005 Q2 5,429 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 4,340 3 2 691.2
2004 Q4 2,228 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2011 · 1 incident

October 3, 2011 AL · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
D & E Mining LLC · Struck against a moving object

operating a front end loader loading rock trucks when a rock truck backed into driver side rear of loader in engine area causing injury to loader operators neck area.

2006 · 1 incident

May 31, 2006 AL · Coal drill operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
D & E Mining LLC · Fall from machine

Was on drill checking a leak, started off drill slipped lost footing fell on ground hurting ankle foot area

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The full compliance file on Pit Number 2

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.