Mining Incidents

Refuse Operation Coal

Controlled by Edward A Asbury
Welch, Mcdowell County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4608916

Refuse Operation has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
11
citations
8
significant & substantial
$1,383
proposed penalties
$1,383
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
19
inspections on record
218
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: 218 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Refuse Operation has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-06-02.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Refuse Operation shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.39 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 5 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.
0.39
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.90
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
5
samples
Most recent sample: 2005-06-01.
Noise
0%
over PEL
2
samples
Most recent sample: 2005-06-01.
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
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q2 136 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 195 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 168 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 112 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 95 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 159 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 111 0 0 0.0
Show 21 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q3 522 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 810 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 802 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 745 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 915 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,138 1 0 878.7
2005 Q1 901 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 958 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 944 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 822 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 774 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 569 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 750 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 678 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 653 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 582 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 792 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 971 3 2 3089.6
2002 Q1 4,050 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,257 7 6 5568.8
2001 Q3 35 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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The full compliance file on Refuse Operation

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.