Mining Incidents

Quinwood No. 1 Deep Mine Coal

Controlled by Corbin Robertson III
Leivasy, Nicholas County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4609599

Quinwood No. 1 Deep Mine has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $6K outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2021–2022
Latest incident
Oct 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
115
citations
6
significant & substantial
$27,215
proposed penalties
$20,980
paid to date
77% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $6,235 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
25
inspections on record
1,330
inspection hours
8.6
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.
115 citations across 1,330 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Quinwood No. 1 Deep Mine has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $6K 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.
$27K
proposed penalties
$27K
current assessed
$21K
paid to date
$6K
outstanding
115 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-07-15.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Quinwood No. 1 Deep Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.40 mg/m3 (99% compliant) across 266 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.
0.40
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.70
dust max (mg/m3)
99%
within 1.5 mg/m3
266
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-08-24.
Silica (quartz)
7.0
silica avg (%)
15.5
silica max (%)
15
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-07-19.
Noise
6%
over PEL
17
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-02-15.
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 Q4 942 2 0 2123.1
2023 Q3 7,188 21 1 2921.5
2023 Q2 12,334 13 1 1054.0
2023 Q1 21,255 12 0 564.6
2022 Q4 19,570 17 0 868.7
2022 Q3 14,611 10 2 684.4
2022 Q2 15,410 20 1 1297.9
2022 Q1 13,267 15 0 1130.6
Show 1 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q4 7,184 4 0 556.8
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2022 · 2 incidents

October 25, 2022 WV · Coal bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss MACHINERY
Quinwood Coal Company, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Had motor hoisted to top of building. Had to pick motor up and swing to line bolt holes up. When we swung the motor the bar that the chain hoist was hooked to slid out of the bracket allowing pump motor to fall. EE's hand was caught between the pump motor and pump causing EE's hand to damaged.

August 26, 2022 WV · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Quinwood Coal Company, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE was hanging miner cable on the section with 2 other EE's when EE felt a pain in EE's right arm. Later in the shift EE's fingers on EE's right hand started becoming numb. EE was using proper lifting techniques and had PPE on. The cable had tension prior to lifting.

2021 · 1 incident

November 5, 2021 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
JCS Holding Company, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Placed hand on boom arms and got caught between boom and canopy post

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The full compliance file on Quinwood No. 1 Deep Mine

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.