Tower Pit Metal/Non-Metal
Joe Klapec & Son Inc.
· Surface
Controlled by
William Joseph Klapec
Oil City,
Venango County,
PA
·
Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3610048
Tower Pit has $1K 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
- 0
- Years on record
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- Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2013
11
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,334
proposed penalties
$1,334
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2013
14
inspections on record
128
inspection hours
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: 128 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Tower Pit has $1K 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.$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-09-16.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
See also
the operator's enforcement record
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q4 | 398 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q3 | 677 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q2 | 589 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q1 | 158 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q4 | 774 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q3 | 827 | 2 | 0 | 2418.4 |
| 2024 Q2 | 857 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q1 | 589 | 1 | 0 | 1697.8 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Q4 | 345 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q3 | 649 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q2 | 482 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q1 | 524 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q4 | 402 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q3 | 209 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q2 | 834 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q1 | 221 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q4 | 521 | 1 | 0 | 1919.4 |
| 2021 Q3 | 345 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q2 | 304 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q1 | 317 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q4 | 146 | 1 | 0 | 6849.3 |
| 2020 Q3 | 635 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q2 | 703 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q1 | 379 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q4 | 185 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q3 | 282 | 1 | 0 | 3546.1 |
| 2019 Q2 | 275 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q1 | 247 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q4 | 247 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q3 | 386 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q2 | 161 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q1 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q4 | 131 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q3 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q2 | 156 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q1 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q4 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q3 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q2 | 185 | 1 | 0 | 5405.4 |
| 2016 Q1 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q4 | 238 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q3 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q2 | 185 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q1 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q4 | 196 | 1 | 0 | 5102.0 |
| 2014 Q3 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q2 | 155 | 1 | 0 | 6451.6 |
| 2014 Q1 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q4 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q3 | 166 | 2 | 0 | 12048.2 |
No reportable incidents on file.
MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.
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The full compliance file on Tower Pit
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.