Injured was changing a conveyor torque shaft on a miner. Another worker was driving a bit insert into the ripper head with a sledge hammer. The hammer slipped out of the worker's hands and traveled more than 10 feet striking the injured in the back of the head and neck. Injured had blunt force trama to head and neck.
Ranger Fuel No. 1 Mine Coal
Ranger Fuel No. 1 Mine has $1.9M in proposed MSHA penalties and $1.3M outstanding across 84 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 27
- Years on record
- 2007–2022
- Latest incident
- Jan 2022
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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.Ranger Fuel No. 1 Mine has $1.9M in proposed MSHA penalties and $1.3M outstanding across 84 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 Ranger Fuel No. 1 Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.57 mg/m3 (96% compliant) across 769 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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| 2025 Q4 | 2,803 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q3 | 3,925 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2023 Q4 | 0 | 17 | 4 | |
| 2023 Q3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2023 Q2 | 3,202 | 4 | 0 | 1249.2 |
| 2022 Q3 | 13,516 | 56 | 10 | 4143.2 |
| 2022 Q2 | 12,298 | 55 | 11 | 4472.3 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Q1 | 33,087 | 93 | 23 | 2810.8 |
| 2021 Q4 | 25,169 | 66 | 15 | 2622.3 |
| 2021 Q3 | 31,158 | 122 | 21 | 3915.5 |
| 2021 Q2 | 49,851 | 159 | 31 | 3189.5 |
| 2021 Q1 | 48,658 | 94 | 14 | 1931.9 |
| 2020 Q4 | 42,223 | 125 | 23 | 2960.5 |
| 2020 Q3 | 37,862 | 144 | 20 | 3803.3 |
| 2020 Q2 | 41,268 | 192 | 27 | 4652.5 |
| 2020 Q1 | 39,726 | 55 | 17 | 1384.5 |
| 2019 Q4 | 27,625 | 27 | 6 | 977.4 |
| 2019 Q3 | 3,439 | 7 | 0 | 2035.5 |
| 2019 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2012 Q4 | 426 | 5 | 0 | 11737.1 |
| 2012 Q3 | 1,166 | 1 | 0 | 857.6 |
| 2012 Q2 | 1,166 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q1 | 1,203 | 1 | 0 | 831.3 |
| 2011 Q4 | 14,585 | 8 | 2 | 548.5 |
| 2011 Q3 | 21,068 | 27 | 9 | 1281.6 |
| 2011 Q2 | 35,644 | 29 | 5 | 813.6 |
| 2011 Q1 | 19,667 | 36 | 8 | 1830.5 |
| 2010 Q4 | 6,034 | 4 | 0 | 662.9 |
| 2010 Q3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2010 Q2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2010 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2009 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2009 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2009 Q2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2009 Q1 | 973 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2008 Q4 | 5,773 | 27 | 9 | 4676.9 |
| 2008 Q3 | 20,348 | 35 | 7 | 1720.1 |
| 2008 Q2 | 19,787 | 19 | 8 | 960.2 |
| 2008 Q1 | 9,121 | 21 | 1 | 2302.4 |
| 2007 Q4 | 9,268 | 6 | 2 | 647.4 |
| 2007 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Reportable incidents
27 on file2022 · 1 incident
2021 · 11 incidents
Injured hooked chain between scoop and mantrip. EE stepped around the ride to get in drivers seat and scoop rolled pinning left lower leg between scoop bucket and mantrip tire. Scoop was off and operator was sitting in deck.
Employee was checking on a pump in the Right Return at 30 Brk. The employee twisted a knee causing employee to fall. At the time of the injury the employee received an exam from an emt. Employee then returned to work with no lost time until 11/16/2021, when surgery was performed.
INJURED WAS HANGING A LOOP OF CABLE FOR #4SC, THE ANCHOR FOR #3SC JERKED AND CAUGHT THE INJURED IN THE LEFT EYEBROW. CAUSING A 1 1/2" TO 2" LACERATION.
INJURED WAS HANGING CABLE, WHILE WALKING THEY FELL, DRIVING LEFT SHOULDER INTO THE GROUND.
A SECTION OF UNSUPPORTED TOP, WHICH HAD BEEN DANGERED OFF, FELL PULLING THREE ROWS OF PERMANENT INSTALLED SUPPORT. THIS FALL OCCURRED ONE BREAK INBY SPAD NUMBER 1131.
Injured picked up a roll of flypad material and felt a burning/pain in right groin. At the time of injury the injured received a medical exam. They returned to work with no lost time until 05/18/2021, when surgery was performed.
Injured was hanging a cable. They slipped and fell on right knee and ankle.
Injured was setting a timber. Missed wedge with hammer hitting middle finger on right hand. Timber fell, pinched hand to top.
The employee got out of a moving rail car and fell to the ground causing muscle strain and bruising.
Employee stated: was putting shims in the feeder conveyor chain, and the jack came loose pinching employee's left index finger between the shims.
While loading a shuttle car with the continuous mining machine a piece of rock came off the conveyor chain and hit the shuttle car and bounced into the employees upper lip
2020 · 9 incidents
Hanging equipment cables across the # 2 heading intersection with yellow tie wire and the tie wire broke and caused the cables to strike employee in the left shoulder and neck area.
Using a 20 pd. sledge hammer to knock block to install a mandoor and the block busted and the hammer went thru the stopping while employee was holding onto it and struck employee's finger on the side of a sharp piece of the block. Employee returned to work on employee's next scheduled shift. No lost time.
Employee was straightening roof bolt in the bolt hole to attach drill wrench when the bolt spun in the hole. The employee felt pain in left shoulder when they caught themselves to prevent falling.
Employee was cutting insulating material from a cable conductor when hand holding the knife slipped and cut other hand.
Employee was struck in the head by a pry bar as a co-worker was prying on an entrance gland to the main control panel of a roof bolter. As the co-worker was working the pry bar back and forth, the victim moved EE's head into the path of the moving pry bar to look inside the panel. Victim was struck in the head behind the left ear.
Employee was changing scoop batteries. An individual cell grounded against the battery tray causing the battery to produce smoke. The inured inhaled an unknown amount of smoke.
Employee was stepping down from belt tail and stepped on a belt rail and twisted their left knee. Employee did not miss work until 3/2/2020.
Employee was operating the battery scoop (T400-105) while pulling a roof bolter that was stuck in the mud. the employee tried pulling the bolter with the scoop and later alleged their back was injured while operating the scoop to pull the bolter. Employee did not miss work until 3/2/2020.
Employee lost EE's footing when EE stepped on a rock and strained EE's lower abdomen.
2019 · 1 incident
Employee stepped off of mantrip and sprained right ankle.
2011 · 1 incident
Employee was putting his second piece of steel in to drill his hole. Instead of putting the steel into the other steel, he put it in the drill head and tried to connect the steel. Once the steel came together, it slapped back into his right thumb and index finger.
2008 · 3 incidents
Injured was pulling loose roof with a slate bar when he felt pain in his groin area.
Injured was bent over when he lifted the cable up his chest popped and took his breath. A knot came out on the lower part of his chest. He went to the Doctor and was reported as being off Aug 1, 2008 for the accident.
Injured was walking to drop curtain and stepped on a nail that went thru his boot and punctured his right foot. He went to Welch Medical and was treated for a puncture wound.
2007 · 1 incident
A roof fall occurred in the #5 entry of the green ridge #2 mine.
The full compliance file on Ranger Fuel No. 1 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.