Mining Incidents

Raven Dock Coal

Raven, Tazewell County, VA  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 4406860

Raven Dock has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2017
Latest incident
Mar 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
51
citations
18
significant & substantial
$7,404
proposed penalties
$5,842
paid to date
79% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,562 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
45
inspections on record
606
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: 606 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Raven Dock has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 2 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
$1K
outstanding
51 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-02-23.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Raven Dock shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.06 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 21 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.
0.06
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.39
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
21
samples
Most recent sample: 2019-02-11.
Noise
0%
over PEL
13
samples
Most recent sample: 2019-02-11.
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
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 40 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
Show 39 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 1 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 0 5 2
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 10 5 2 500000.0
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 0 0 0
2013 Q3 202 1 0 4950.5
2013 Q2 557 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 623 3 1 4815.4
2012 Q4 420 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 527 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 548 3 1 5474.5
2012 Q1 503 5 2 9940.4
2011 Q4 0 0 0
2011 Q3 0 0 0
2011 Q2 0 2 2
2011 Q1 160 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 860 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 640 4 3 6250.0
2010 Q2 860 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 420 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 720 5 3 6944.4
2009 Q3 185 5 0 27027.0
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 360 4 0 11111.1
2008 Q4 396 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 392 3 2 7653.1
2008 Q2 320 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 240 2 0 8333.3
2000 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2017 · 1 incident

March 1, 2017 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Blackjewel L.L.C. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

After major wind/rain storm,employee was picking up and re-installing an aluminum "no tarping" sign. When putting sign in the ground, the corner of sign hit employee in head. It caused a laceration and employee received seven clamps to close the scalp wound. Employee returned to work the following day. No lost time.

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The full compliance file on Raven Dock

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.