Mining Incidents

Tacoma Plant Coal

Mountaintop Inc · Facility
Controlled by Steve Meade
Tacoma-Coeburn, Wise County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4404264

Tacoma Plant has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1989
Latest incident
Feb 1989
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
42
citations
16
significant & substantial
$4,702
proposed penalties
$2,156
paid to date
46% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,546 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
36
inspections on record
506
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: 506 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Tacoma Plant has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 1 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
41 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-03-16.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Tacoma Plant shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.32 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 20 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.
0.32
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.89
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
20
samples
Most recent sample: 2010-03-17.
Noise
0%
over PEL
18
samples
Most recent sample: 2010-03-17.
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
2010 Q2 860 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 2,597 1 0 385.1
2008 Q3 0 0 0
2008 Q1 0 3 1
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 0 9 4
2007 Q2 0 1 0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
Show 28 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 0 1 1
2006 Q2 0 0 0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 0 4 1
2005 Q3 0 11 5
2005 Q2 0 0 0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 760 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 760 5 1 6578.9
2004 Q2 115 3 0 26087.0
2004 Q1 694 1 1 1440.9
2003 Q4 960 2 2 2083.3
2003 Q3 1,620 1 0 617.3
2003 Q2 300 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 400 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 240 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 150 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 300 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 120 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 420 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 420 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 300 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 300 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 360 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1989 · 1 incident

February 8, 1989 VA · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Spring Collieries Inc · Fall onto or against objects

EMPL WAS CLIMBING INTO RAILROAD CAR WHEN HE SLIPPED & SLID DOWN INSIDE OF CAR.

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