Mining Incidents

Stonega Strip #10 Coal

Controlled by Jerry W Wharton
Appalachia, Wise County, VA  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 4407256

Stonega Strip #10 has $1.0M in proposed MSHA penalties and $196K outstanding across 11 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2011–2024
Latest incident
Sep 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
61
citations
35
significant & substantial
$1,038,451
proposed penalties
$428,137
paid to date
41% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $610,314 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
26
inspections on record
1,334
inspection hours
4.6
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.
61 citations across 1,334 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Stonega Strip #10 has $1.0M in proposed MSHA penalties and $196K outstanding across 11 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.
$1.0M
proposed penalties
$624K
current assessed
$428K
paid to date
$196K
outstanding
48 assessments are final orders; 11 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-11-13.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Stonega Strip #10 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.11 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 60 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)
0.54
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
60
samples
Most recent sample: 2025-03-27.
Silica (quartz)
9.6
silica avg (%)
9.6
silica max (%)
1
samples
Most recent sample: 2024-03-19.
Noise
0%
over PEL
21
samples
Most recent sample: 2024-11-06.
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
2025 Q2 931 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,316 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 13,218 13 9 983.5
2024 Q3 12,893 5 0 387.8
2024 Q2 6,039 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 425 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 0 0 0
2013 Q2 0 0 0
Show 9 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2012 Q1 2,814 1 0 355.4
2011 Q4 15,127 11 8 727.2
2011 Q3 19,219 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 19,156 6 2 313.2
2011 Q1 19,073 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 17,686 5 2 282.7
2010 Q3 17,990 5 2 277.9
2010 Q2 17,947 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 7,364 4 1 543.2

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded

Reportable incidents

2 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2024 · 1 incident

September 30, 2024 VA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
J W Construction Company Inc · Struck by falling object

992K Cat loader - loading shot material into 777F Rock Trucks in coal pit. Employee going into pit to get a bucket of shot material. Right side of highwall fell and struck front of loader and front cab area.

2011 · 1 incident

August 2, 2011 VA · Coal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Fairbanks Coal Company Inc · Struck by flying object

Employee was removing a loader tooth, he struck tooth and a small piece of metal came off of the tooth and lodged under the skin of the left knee.

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The full compliance file on Stonega Strip #10

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.