The employee was loading a scrap metal plate into a loader bucket. While the plate was being loaded, it slid out of the bucket and cut the lower left leg.
St. Nicholas Cogeneration Plant Coal
St. Nicholas Cogeneration Plant has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 54
- Years on record
- 1994–2025
- Latest incident
- Sep 2025
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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.St. Nicholas Cogeneration Plant has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 outstanding across 1 contested dockets.
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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.MSHA sampling at St. Nicholas Cogeneration Plant shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.62 mg/m3 (91% compliant) across 406 samples.
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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 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.ⓘ
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.| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q4 | 6,021 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q3 | 5,759 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q2 | 5,223 | 4 | 1 | 765.8 |
| 2025 Q1 | 5,393 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q4 | 5,124 | 2 | 2 | 390.3 |
| 2024 Q3 | 5,472 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q2 | 5,893 | 1 | 0 | 169.7 |
| 2024 Q1 | 6,867 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Q4 | 6,408 | 2 | 0 | 312.1 |
| 2023 Q3 | 5,803 | 2 | 2 | 344.6 |
| 2023 Q2 | 6,034 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q1 | 5,332 | 3 | 1 | 562.6 |
| 2022 Q4 | 5,299 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q3 | 5,330 | 2 | 0 | 375.2 |
| 2022 Q2 | 5,499 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q1 | 4,850 | 1 | 0 | 206.2 |
| 2021 Q4 | 5,005 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q3 | 5,501 | 1 | 0 | 181.8 |
| 2021 Q2 | 5,387 | 1 | 1 | 185.6 |
| 2021 Q1 | 5,607 | 1 | 0 | 178.3 |
| 2020 Q4 | 5,014 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q3 | 4,930 | 2 | 0 | 405.7 |
| 2020 Q2 | 5,333 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q1 | 5,312 | 1 | 0 | 188.3 |
| 2019 Q4 | 5,871 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q3 | 6,377 | 2 | 0 | 313.6 |
| 2019 Q2 | 6,516 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q1 | 7,440 | 3 | 0 | 403.2 |
| 2018 Q4 | 8,017 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q3 | 8,707 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q2 | 7,361 | 1 | 0 | 135.9 |
| 2018 Q1 | 8,520 | 1 | 0 | 117.4 |
| 2017 Q4 | 8,554 | 1 | 0 | 116.9 |
| 2017 Q3 | 7,285 | 4 | 3 | 549.1 |
| 2017 Q2 | 7,152 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q1 | 6,888 | 2 | 0 | 290.4 |
| 2016 Q4 | 7,689 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q3 | 6,806 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q2 | 7,187 | 2 | 0 | 278.3 |
| 2016 Q1 | 7,520 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q4 | 7,493 | 2 | 0 | 266.9 |
| 2015 Q3 | 7,473 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q2 | 6,733 | 1 | 0 | 148.5 |
| 2015 Q1 | 10,726 | 1 | 0 | 93.2 |
| 2014 Q4 | 9,678 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q3 | 8,539 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q2 | 11,018 | 3 | 0 | 272.3 |
| 2014 Q1 | 9,790 | 3 | 0 | 306.4 |
| 2013 Q4 | 8,433 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q3 | 8,649 | 1 | 0 | 115.6 |
| 2013 Q2 | 8,291 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q1 | 8,534 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q4 | 8,170 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q3 | 9,330 | 1 | 0 | 107.2 |
| 2012 Q2 | 9,472 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q1 | 9,981 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 Q4 | 10,322 | 1 | 0 | 96.9 |
| 2011 Q3 | 9,785 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 Q2 | 8,570 | 1 | 0 | 116.7 |
| 2011 Q1 | 9,248 | 1 | 0 | 108.1 |
| 2010 Q4 | 9,579 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q3 | 9,260 | 1 | 0 | 108.0 |
| 2010 Q2 | 9,945 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q1 | 10,769 | 1 | 1 | 92.9 |
| 2009 Q4 | 10,242 | 2 | 1 | 195.3 |
| 2009 Q3 | 9,794 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2009 Q2 | 8,558 | 1 | 0 | 116.8 |
| 2009 Q1 | 9,710 | 4 | 1 | 411.9 |
| 2008 Q4 | 9,304 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2008 Q3 | 9,788 | 2 | 0 | 204.3 |
| 2008 Q2 | 9,271 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2008 Q1 | 9,826 | 3 | 0 | 305.3 |
| 2007 Q4 | 8,098 | 1 | 0 | 123.5 |
| 2007 Q3 | 9,024 | 5 | 1 | 554.1 |
| 2007 Q2 | 8,528 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2007 Q1 | 8,716 | 2 | 1 | 229.5 |
| 2006 Q4 | 9,279 | 1 | 1 | 107.8 |
| 2006 Q3 | 9,181 | 1 | 0 | 108.9 |
| 2006 Q2 | 7,574 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2006 Q1 | 7,913 | 3 | 0 | 379.1 |
| 2005 Q4 | 8,627 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2005 Q3 | 7,454 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2005 Q2 | 8,208 | 2 | 0 | 243.7 |
| 2005 Q1 | 8,454 | 2 | 1 | 236.6 |
| 2004 Q4 | 8,246 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2004 Q3 | 7,646 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2004 Q2 | 7,161 | 3 | 0 | 418.9 |
| 2004 Q1 | 7,575 | 3 | 2 | 396.0 |
| 2003 Q4 | 6,993 | 1 | 0 | 143.0 |
| 2003 Q3 | 7,085 | 2 | 0 | 282.3 |
| 2003 Q2 | 8,051 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2003 Q1 | 8,298 | 2 | 0 | 241.0 |
| 2002 Q4 | 7,979 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2002 Q3 | 7,340 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2002 Q2 | 7,680 | 3 | 0 | 390.6 |
| 2002 Q1 | 7,274 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2001 Q4 | 6,793 | 1 | 0 | 147.2 |
| 2001 Q3 | 7,167 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2001 Q2 | 7,898 | 1 | 0 | 126.6 |
| 2001 Q1 | 6,972 | 2 | 0 | 286.9 |
| 2000 Q4 | 6,718 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2000 Q3 | 7,862 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2000 Q2 | 6,638 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2000 Q1 | 8,717 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Reportable incidents
54 on file2025 · 2 incidents
When using a chain hoist to rig a conveyor belt, employee got hand caught between chain hoist and motor. Resulting in a finger laceration to the left pinky.
2024 · 1 incident
Noise exposure from work related and non work related sources. All employees are provided access to hearing protection.
2021 · 1 incident
Noise exposure from work related and non-work related sources. All employees are provided access to hearing protection.
2020 · 1 incident
While climbing a ladder the employee's foot slipped and employee twisted their back.
2019 · 1 incident
Prying rock away from door employee hit right ring (4th) finger off C-channel.
2017 · 3 incidents
While cleaning up scrap steel employee felt sharp pain above belly button. (Date of surgery 11/8/17 - first missed work day)
Noise exposure from work related and non-work related sources. All employees are provided access to hearing protection.
Employee walked up stairs and had a back spasm.
2016 · 1 incident
Trespassing vehicle traveling at an apparent high rate of speed ran into the barricades at pole line 4160 volt. Damage to vehicle and 3 locations along pole line. (Pole, 2 cross arms, and cross arm).
2014 · 1 incident
Employee was opening a door on the fines conveyor to unplug the chute. When he took the bolts out of the door the material pushed the door open and pined him between the door and the handrail.
2013 · 1 incident
Removing belt & keeper with air gun
2012 · 2 incidents
EE was washing undercarriage of 2006 Ford F250 pick up truck when cable slipped off the JCB forklift.
Employee was welding pin back in place on left side of bucket and a hot spark went into left ear.
2011 · 1 incident
Poor winter conditions, snow covered ice, sub-freezing temperatures. Employee slipped and fell on left shoulder.
2009 · 5 incidents
While ee was loosening nut on feeder gear box, nut free wheeled cutting finger on bolt that was sticking out.
Employee slipped while working on grating. All surfaces were clean and dry. Plant was idle and repair work was being done.
Working on the heavy media prewet screen. 6x6 beams were cracked in half. Screen sees a lot of water, so it was rusty. Took the screen off deck of prewet to be grinded. Was wearing safey glasses and hard had with light attached and also had another light there. Had dust rag, steel could have been on rag when he wiped face. Did not get medical treatment until 8/17/09.
EE was removing the guard to get across to clean the chains & sprockets. While lowering guard to ground, it slipped out of his hands and landed on his right foot. Co-worker was also helping him remove the guard. This work was being performed because we were on a mini outage. Employee did not get the treatment until the 9th.
While getting out of the loader injury slipped on the ice and pulled something in his knee.
2008 · 4 incidents
While changing acetylene tank, tank slipped off the frame and pinched finger between tank & frame.
EE was welding inside inlet chute to heavy metals drum and got a foreign body in his right eye.
Lifting oxygen bottles & hurt back. *Employee hurt himself on 9/15/08 & did not tell us until 9/18/08.
Shoveling material into wheelbarrow and hurt his back.
2007 · 2 incidents
While operating a 5 ton chainfall, employee felt a nip in his stomach.
Employee was prying on gear box with pry bar and hurt hard when gear box left loose he jarred shoulder and hand.
2006 · 1 incident
EE leaned up against previously cut hot plate and burned his right forearm. EE also has poison ivy on both arms, not sure where on the job he got that.
2005 · 1 incident
While cleaning mud accumulation out of discharge chute the air lance got stuck in the muddy material causing employee a strain of the left shoulder.
2004 · 1 incident
While lifting iron plates and screens ee hurt his back.
2003 · 2 incidents
WHILE LIFTING PLATES EE HURT HIS SHOULDER AND NECK.
WHILE USING AN AIR CHISEL, A FROZEN LUMP OF MATERIAL BROKE FREE WITH THE TOP OF THE RIGHT HAND GETTING PINCHED BETWEEN THE HANDLE OF THE AIR CHISEL AND IRON FRAME OF CONVEYER.
2002 · 1 incident
WHILE HOOKING UP TRACTOR TO TRAILER, HE TWISTED LEFT KNEE.
2001 · 2 incidents
WHILE USING A HAMMER AND CHISEL EE STRUCK HIS LEFT POINTER FINGER.
WHILE SHOVELING OUT SCRAPER BUILDING SMASHED HIS RING FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND.
2000 · 1 incident
WHILE SWINGING A PICK HANDLE EE HAND CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE CONVEYOR LINE. HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE PICK HANDLE & THE CONVEYOR LINE. HIS FINGER WAS BUSTED OPEN
1999 · 3 incidents
REMOVING SCRAPER FROM INSIDE CHUTE WHEN IT WAS CUT FREE ALL OF THE WEIGHT OF HTE SCRAPER PINCHED EE'S WRIST AGAINST THE SIDE OF THE HOPPER WHEN IT SLIPPED.
EE BENT OVER TO CLEAN UP RAGS AND HE GOT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
WHILE CHANGING OUT LOAD ROLLERS LIFTING THEM IN PLACE EMPLOYEE HAD A SHARP PAIN IN GROIN AREA LEFT SIDE.
1998 · 2 incidents
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON ICE.
INSTALLING AIR HOSE-FITTING WAS HOT SECURE-WHEN THE AIR WAS TURNED ON THE FITTING BLEW OFF AND HIT HIM IN THE LEFT EYE.
1997 · 1 incident
ON 5/23/97 WE WERE 1ST MADE AWARE OF EE BEING EFFECTED BY CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME & THE OPERATION RESULTED ON 5/6/97. AT THIS POINT THE WORK RELATED STATUS IS BEING DETERMINED. AT THIS POINT WE ARE SUBMITTING THIS REPORT TO COMPLY WITH FEDERAL REGULATIONS & WE ARE NOT SURE OF WORK RELATED STATUS.
1996 · 5 incidents
CONDITIONS WERE POOR, WHILE CLEANING ROLLERS HIS FACE WAS LACERATED BY THE SCRAPER.
WENT TO MOVEHOSE TO GIVE FELLOW WORKER SLACK IN HOSE AND TRIPPED OVER I-BEAM, LANDING ON BOTH WRISTS AND RIGHT KNEE
EE WAS LOADING SCRAP FROM TURNOCK SCREEN WENT TOLOAD SCREEN INTO BUCKET GOT BOTTOM IN PUSHED TOPOF SCREEN INTO BUCKET AT THIS TIME, BOTTOM SLIPPED OUT TRAPPING RIGHT ANKLE UNDER SCREEN
EE WAS PULLING PACKING OUT OF A GOULDS PMP AND THE PACKING EXTRACTOR SLIPPED AND HE BUMPED HIS ELBOW ON THE MOTOR FRAME.
WHILE EE WAS SWINGING SLEDGE HAMMER AND OPERATING HAMMER DRILL, HE PULLED MUSCLE IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS UPPER BACK.
1995 · 4 incidents
EE WAS WALKING DOWN ROADWAY WHEN HE SLIPPED ONT EH ICE AND FELL ON HIS BACK.
EE WAS UNDER THE BACKHOE INSTALLING A HYDRAULIC NOSE DURING INSTALLATION EE WAS LOOKING UP AND DIRT CAME DOWN IN HIS EYES.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON CONVEYOR TAKE UP PULLEY WHILE WORKING ON THE TAKE UP PULLEY EE TURNED TOGET THE TORCH TO CUT WELDS & HE FELT HIS BACK PULL OUT
SETTING UP RIGGING TO REMOVE CHAIN FROM FLASH DRYER AND DIRECTING BACKHOE. BACKHOE WAS PULLIGN CABLE TO REMOVE SLACK, EE NOTICED THE CABLE CAUGHT ON THE POLE BY THE FIREHYDRANT. EE SIGNALED THE BACKHOE OPERATOR TO STOP. THE OPERATOR MISINTERPRETED THE SIGNAL AND KEP PULLING. EE GRABBED THE CABLE TO PULL IT OVER THE POLE AND WASH IT ON THE RIGHT SHOULDER & RIGHT SIDE OF THE HEAD
1994 · 4 incidents
EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING BOLTS IN "B" PAN FEEDER MOTOR. WHILE INSTALLING BOLTS HE WAS IN AN AWKWARD POSITION AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING THE BELT GUARD ON "B" CRUSHER USING AND OVERHEAD HOIST WHILE RICHARD WAS GUIDING THE GUARD AND SHIFTED AND HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND NECK WAS PULLED.
EMPLOYEE WAS WATCHING POWER SCREEN RUN. EMPLOYEE WAS GOING OVER TO THE POWER SCREEN LEAVERS TO SHUT THE BELT DOWN AN A ROCK FELL OFF THE BELTHAND HIT HIM ON THE BACK OF THE NECK. AFTER GETTIN G HIT ONT HE BACK OF THE NECK, HE HIT THE FRONT OF THE HYDRAULCI CYLINDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS INSPECTING INTERIOR OF CRUSHER DISCHARGE CHUTE. WHILE EXITING CRUSHER DISCHARGE CHUTE, EE'S FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
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