An employee's left hand was caught between the dual head operator side drill boom and boom jack cradle. The employee had hand on the drill boom when it was raised. This resulted in a surgery that required removing left 4th and 5th fingers.
Tilley Coal
Tilley has $69K in proposed MSHA penalties and $601 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 19
- Years on record
- 2017–2020
- Latest incident
- Dec 2020
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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.Tilley has $69K in proposed MSHA penalties and $601 outstanding across 3 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 Tilley shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.35 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 1,665 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2025 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2025 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2025 Q1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2024 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2023 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2023 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2023 Q1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2022 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2022 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2022 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2022 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2021 Q4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2021 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2021 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2021 Q1 | 3,816 | 2 | 1 | 524.1 |
| 2020 Q4 | 33,222 | 16 | 5 | 481.6 |
| 2020 Q3 | 39,577 | 23 | 3 | 581.1 |
| 2020 Q2 | 35,518 | 20 | 2 | 563.1 |
| 2020 Q1 | 39,655 | 14 | 0 | 353.0 |
| 2019 Q4 | 41,295 | 12 | 1 | 290.6 |
| 2019 Q3 | 41,433 | 18 | 0 | 434.4 |
| 2019 Q2 | 42,547 | 14 | 2 | 329.0 |
| 2019 Q1 | 46,142 | 9 | 1 | 195.1 |
| 2018 Q4 | 40,200 | 6 | 0 | 149.3 |
| 2018 Q3 | 38,184 | 14 | 4 | 366.6 |
| 2018 Q2 | 38,385 | 13 | 1 | 338.7 |
| 2018 Q1 | 17,967 | 17 | 3 | 946.2 |
| 2017 Q4 | 9,535 | 8 | 0 | 839.0 |
| 2017 Q3 | 10,992 | 44 | 14 | 4002.9 |
| 2017 Q2 | 9,926 | 19 | 7 | 1914.2 |
| 2017 Q1 | 4,889 | 11 | 4 | 2249.9 |
Reportable incidents
19 on file2020 · 7 incidents
There was a roof fall in the last open crosscut on the active section in the #8 mains at SS 2787.
The employee was loading belt structure in to a scoop bucket on the surface of the mine. While lifting, EE also twisted resulting in s strained back.
An offside roof bolter operator was injured while attempting to remotely extend EE's ATRS Pad out. While positioned to extend EE's ATRS pad out manually, a piece of draw rock fell on the operator side ATRS causing the offside of the ATRS to raise and strike the offside employee in the face area. This resulted in a concussion and damage to teeth.
The employee received a laceration to EE's left arm when it slid across the sharp edge of a 54" X 5" roof mat. The employee was installing permanent roof supports on the working section when the injury occurred.
While attaching a pull rope to a scoop bucket, the employee was struck on the right hand by a loose section of mine roof.
While tramming a scoop on the working section, the operator backed over top of a rock and jarred EE's head against the side of the operator's deck.
2019 · 5 incidents
An employee was attempting to free a stuck airlock door that had been damaged. While pulling back on the door, employee fell backwards on to left ankle resulting in a broken left leg.
The employee was in the process of hanging the continuous miner cable and waterline on the section. Employee felt a strain in right arm pit as employee lifted the cable and waterline.
NOTE: This is being filed under protest. The operator maintains that the employee did not sustain an injury that would prevent the employee from performing the employee's normal work activities. The employee alleged that the employee felt a sharp pain in right shoulder while preparing roof bolts for installation.
The contracted employee slipped while weed eating on an inclined bank. The slip resulted in a fall down the incline of approximately 4 Feet. The contracted employee stated that EE strained EE's back.
A group of employees was attempting to remove a broken continuous miner conveyor torque shaft with a chain ratchet. The hook of the chain ratchet came loose from the torque shaft striking an employee on the left hand middle knuckle. The strike resulted in a fractured knuckle.
2018 · 6 incidents
Note: The employee did not immediately seek medical treatment. The first day of restricted work activity was 5/8/19. The employee was changing the left rear tire on a personnel carrier. As they removed the tire to be replaced, they felt a twinge in the lower back.
The employee was attempting to splice two pieces of soft waterline together with a hose mender. EE felt a "pop" in right shoulder as EE was pushing one end of the waterline up onto the hose mender. EE worked with this condition until treatment was needed on 12/20/2018.
The employee was pulling conveyor belt with a scoop and a wire rope. The wire rope ripped through the conveyor belt striking the employee above the right eye.
An employee strained back while pulling the section scoop charger cable to the power center.
The employee was scooping in the #1 heading. The employee placed left hand on top of the scoop panel while operating the scoop with right hand. A piece of draw rock fell on left hand causing lacerations to third, fourth, and fifth fingers.
A piece of draw rock fell on the continuous miner operator while in the #4 heading on the active section.
2017 · 1 incident
Employee was removing a piece of rock from shuttle car when employee dropped it onto feeder causing lacerations to 3 fingers on both hands.
The full compliance file on Tilley
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.