Mining Incidents

Shop Coal

Controlled by Terry L Schall
Kittanning, Armstrong County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3609764

Shop has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2011
Latest incident
Jan 2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
24
citations
3
significant & substantial
$2,813
proposed penalties
$2,768
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $45 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
12
inspections on record
234
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: 234 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Shop has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
24 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-01-07.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Shop shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.07 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 41 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.
0.07
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.20
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
41
samples
Most recent sample: 2015-01-07.
Noise
0%
over PEL
23
samples
Most recent sample: 2015-01-07.
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
2015 Q2 111 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 722 3 0 4155.1
2014 Q4 1,213 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,553 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2,049 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 2,353 1 0 425.0
2013 Q4 1,718 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,504 0 0 0.0
Show 17 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q2 2,332 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 2,029 1 0 492.9
2012 Q4 2,297 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,551 1 0 644.7
2012 Q2 2,491 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 2,816 1 0 355.1
2011 Q4 2,962 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 2,591 1 0 386.0
2011 Q2 2,497 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 2,354 2 0 849.6
2010 Q4 2,270 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 2,630 3 1 1140.7
2010 Q2 2,317 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 2,552 9 1 3526.6
2009 Q4 1,592 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 2,212 2 1 904.2
2009 Q2 1,725 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2011 · 1 incident

January 27, 2011 PA · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
MBS Repairs Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee got foreign body in right eye. He had been grinding with safety goggles so is unsure how it happened.

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The full compliance file on Shop

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.