Somerville South Synfuel Plant: 14 MSHA citations
Coal
Somerville South Synfuel Plant has $3K 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
- 2006–2007
- Latest incident
- Feb 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
4
significant & substantial
$2,963
proposed penalties
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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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.
Rate withheld: 48 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Somerville South Synfuel Plant has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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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.
14 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-12-06.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
28.6%
significant & substantial
42.9%
high negligence or reckless
28.6%
reasonably likely or greater
21.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 57.1% moderate, 42.9% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Somerville South Synfuel Plant recorded 9.73 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2007.
Injury rate, 2007
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This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
Above average. The US coal mining average was 4.71 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 cases per 100 workers.
In Indiana, coal mining averaged 3.03 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
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Lakeside Synfuel, LLC
2006 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year |
Employees |
| 2007 |
21 |
| 2006 |
6 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Somerville South Synfuel Plant sits in Gibson County, Indiana, where the Census mining category is 2.7% of county employment.
Local economic context
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County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Gibson County, Indiana · Population 32,986
2.7%
Mining share of county employment
$67,763
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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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 |
| 2007 Q4 |
8,327 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2007 Q3 |
10,524 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2007 Q2 |
10,291 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2007 Q1 |
11,982 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2006 Q4 |
8,279 |
8 |
2 |
966.3 |
| 2006 Q3 |
618 |
4 |
2 |
6472.5 |
| 2006 Q2 |
618 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
3 on file
2007 · 2 incidents
February 23, 2007
IN · Coal
quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant
MACHINERY
Lakeside Synfuel, LLC · Contact with hot objects or substances
EE received second degree burns to his left thumb when the hose on the torch he was using caught when he went to reposition the torch to begin a new cut.
February 4, 2007
IN · Coal
quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant
HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lakeside Synfuel, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
While trying to remove buildup on rollers, came into contact with moving part and fractured upper right arm.
2006 · 1 incident
May 14, 2006
IN · Coal
maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech
MACHINERY
Lakeside Synfuel, LLC · Struck by falling object
Two employees were removing a walkway from a belt structure prior to installation of beltline. One was inspecting a support angle to determine where it was welded. Another employee cut his support angle at another location allowing the support truss to fall approx 4" striking the first employee's right thumb, causing laceration injury. Required 2 stitches.