While digging overburden, the 6030 excavator struck a blasting cap and or booster. This caused the blasting cap and or booster to detonate. The windshield on the 6030 was cracked by fly rock.
Poplar Springs Coal
Poplar Springs has $144K in proposed MSHA penalties and $100 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 19
- Years on record
- 2006–2014
- Latest incident
- Dec 2014
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.Poplar Springs has $144K in proposed MSHA penalties and $100 outstanding across 2 contested dockets.
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.MSHA sampling at Poplar Springs shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.14 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 178 samples.
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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 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.ⓘ
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.| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
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| 2015 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2015 Q3 | 10,317 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q2 | 22,290 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q1 | 23,255 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q4 | 25,263 | 1 | 0 | 39.6 |
| 2014 Q3 | 20,764 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q2 | 22,396 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q1 | 15,061 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2013 Q3 | 17,060 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q2 | 24,150 | 4 | 0 | 165.6 |
| 2013 Q1 | 35,156 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q4 | 29,910 | 3 | 1 | 100.3 |
| 2012 Q3 | 31,487 | 1 | 0 | 31.8 |
| 2012 Q2 | 39,339 | 7 | 1 | 177.9 |
| 2012 Q1 | 50,021 | 3 | 2 | 60.0 |
| 2011 Q4 | 58,450 | 4 | 1 | 68.4 |
| 2011 Q3 | 59,649 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 Q2 | 49,418 | 7 | 3 | 141.6 |
| 2011 Q1 | 39,999 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q4 | 40,277 | 5 | 2 | 124.1 |
| 2010 Q3 | 45,278 | 2 | 1 | 44.2 |
| 2010 Q2 | 44,467 | 13 | 6 | 292.4 |
| 2010 Q1 | 43,129 | 9 | 2 | 208.7 |
| 2009 Q4 | 41,989 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2009 Q3 | 28,947 | 13 | 4 | 449.1 |
| 2009 Q2 | 21,698 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2009 Q1 | 22,632 | 22 | 2 | 972.1 |
| 2008 Q4 | 34,721 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2008 Q3 | 30,547 | 25 | 19 | 818.4 |
| 2008 Q2 | 39,247 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2008 Q1 | 32,550 | 13 | 4 | 399.4 |
| 2007 Q4 | 23,628 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2007 Q3 | 22,113 | 5 | 3 | 226.1 |
| 2007 Q2 | 26,227 | 1 | 1 | 38.1 |
| 2007 Q1 | 25,067 | 9 | 1 | 359.0 |
| 2006 Q4 | 24,999 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2006 Q3 | 25,585 | 12 | 5 | 469.0 |
| 2006 Q2 | 28,572 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2006 Q1 | 24,798 | 5 | 0 | 201.6 |
Reportable incidents
19 on file2014 · 2 incidents
While descending a set of steps attached to the front of a fuel tank on fuel truck (MACK) PS37676, employees foot slipped. Employee tried to hold on and regain his footing. Employee fell to the ground. Fall resulted in a shoulder injury.
2013 · 3 incidents
Employee was cutting a water with a utility knife and the knife slipped and cut his right forearm.
Strain to the left arm and neck.
Employee was using a hammer to hit the metal bucket of the dozer, he was replacing the dozers bucket tip and a piece of metal chipped off and hit his left forearm.
2012 · 8 incidents
He was stepping out of his service truck heard pop under right foot
Coupling hose from an emulsion truck tanker was being detached, the driver did not allow time for the air to release from the hose when he uncoupled the connection thus being under pressure the coupling struck the driver in the side of the head, as a result the driver sustained a concussion.
Employee was climbing off of a dozer and slipped on the track and grabbed a handle to keep from falling and pulled his left shoulder.
Employee had just finished setting a water pump and was walking up a hill and felt something in his knee popped.
Employee was loading and unloading water pumps and hoses and pulled the muscle in his lower back.
Employee was shoveling coal from conveyer belt and slipped hitting the crusher, resulting in a contusion to the left chest wall.
Contract Mechanic was changing the track on a D-11 dozer and the track flipped over mashing his left index finger.
While loading blasting agent onto the blast hole the blasting agent caught fire, detonated and caused the detonation of additional primers that had been placed around the blast hole area. Fire was caused by Blaster smoking near blast hole. See attached MSHA Citation #8521062.
2011 · 2 incidents
Employee was backing over a rock with the bulldozer and the dozer caught on the rock pulling, jerked the emplyee pulling his left shoulder.
Employee was preparing to weld a C-clamp, he sat the clap on a table to measure it and the clamp slipped mashing his right finger.
2010 · 2 incidents
Employee was sliding a 4x8 screen and lifted up on it and pulled a muscle in his chest wall.
He was driving an equalizer pin into an equalizer bar; a piece of the pin chipped off and went into the thumb on his left hand. He had to have the chipped piece removed from his finger.
2008 · 1 incident
Rock truck operator backed 100 ton rock truck off dump, over-turned rock truck, was flown to University of Alabama Hospital where he was treated and released with a hairline crack in L1 vertebrate.
2006 · 1 incident
Employee was lifting 5 gallon can of antifreeze.
The full compliance file on Poplar Springs
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.