Mining Incidents

Preparation Plant Coal

EMCOAL INC. · Facility
Controlled by Claude W Renfro
Pisgah, Jackson County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103231

Preparation Plant has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $85 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
2009
Latest incident
Mar 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
52
citations
13
significant & substantial
$6,561
proposed penalties
$6,476
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $85 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
59
inspections on record
763
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: 763 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Preparation Plant has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $85 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
$6K
paid to date
$85
outstanding
52 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-12-05.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Preparation Plant shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.13 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 50 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.
0.13
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.52
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
50
samples
Most recent sample: 2013-02-06.
Noise
0%
over PEL
33
samples
Most recent sample: 2012-09-20.
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
2023 Q3 440 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 426 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,440 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,020 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 540 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 560 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
Show 46 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 355 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 486 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 348 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 554 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 650 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 823 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 0 0 0
2014 Q3 0 0 0
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 0 0 0
2013 Q2 763 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 0 4 0
2012 Q3 0 1 0
2012 Q2 0 0 0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 1,841 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 2,337 1 0 427.9
2011 Q2 99 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 326 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,753 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,668 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 906 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 3,606 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 5,037 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 5,958 2 1 335.7
2009 Q1 10,120 4 2 395.3
2008 Q4 12,745 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 9,470 10 4 1056.0
2008 Q2 8,701 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 6,292 1 0 158.9
2007 Q4 8,686 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 8,353 10 1 1197.2
2007 Q2 5,121 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 0 5 0
2006 Q2 0 0 0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 0 2 0
2005 Q3 0 0 0
2005 Q2 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2009 · 1 incident

March 14, 2009 AL · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
GTM Energy Partners LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

While working on the #1 gob chain a bar slipped and struck employee midway down his left side.

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The full compliance file on Preparation Plant

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