Mining Incidents

Slip Ridge Contour Coal

Whitesville, Raleigh County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4609376

Slip Ridge Contour has $9K 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
3
Years on record
2010–2012
Latest incident
Jul 2012
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
4
citations
2
significant & substantial
$8,808
proposed penalties
$8,808
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
9
inspections on record
160
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: 160 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Slip Ridge Contour has $9K 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.
$9K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
3 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-03-28.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Slip Ridge Contour shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.11 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 10 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.
0.11
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.36
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
10
samples
Most recent sample: 2011-07-28.
Noise
0%
over PEL
5
samples
Most recent sample: 2011-08-03.
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
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q2 0 0 0
Show 7 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2012 Q2 366 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 3,670 1 0 272.5
2011 Q4 6,295 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 12,585 1 1 79.5
2011 Q2 12,168 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 6,927 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 928 1 1 1077.6
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2012 · 1 incident

July 10, 2012 WV · Coal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler OTHER
Marfork Coal Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee went to maintain a PC2000 Excavator fuel and lube. It was noticed he had not came back for lunch. Foreman went to the site to check on him and found him lying face down on the deck of the machine unresponsive.

2011 · 1 incident

June 15, 2011 WV · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Marfork Coal Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE LIFTING SHIELD OF THE HIGHWALL MINER THE SHIELD SLIPPED AND CUT EMPLOYEE MIDDLE FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND

2010 · 1 incident

November 30, 2010 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Unknown operator · Struck against a moving object

Employee was trying to turn around a lizard truck in a confined location on the bench while loaded with earthen material and hit a berm causing member to suffer from whip lash.

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The full compliance file on Slip Ridge Contour

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.