Mining Incidents

True Energy Fuels Mine No. 2 Coal

Controlled by David Ison
Pound, Wise County, VA  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 4407124

True Energy Fuels Mine No. 2 has $60K in proposed MSHA penalties and $9K outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2019–2022
Latest incident
Aug 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
166
citations
52
significant & substantial
$60,032
proposed penalties
$43,262
paid to date
72% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $16,771 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
61
inspections on record
1,779
inspection hours
9.3
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.
166 citations across 1,779 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

True Energy Fuels Mine No. 2 has $60K in proposed MSHA penalties and $9K outstanding across 4 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.
$60K
proposed penalties
$52K
current assessed
$43K
paid to date
$9K
outstanding
146 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-07-01.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at True Energy Fuels Mine No. 2 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.12 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 186 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.
0.12
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.69
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
186
samples
Most recent sample: 2024-07-31.
Silica (quartz)
21.4
silica avg (%)
48.1
silica max (%)
14
samples
Most recent sample: 2024-06-20.
Noise
5%
over PEL
59
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-11-16.
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
2024 Q2 4,246 2 0 471.0
2024 Q1 7,159 2 0 279.4
2023 Q4 7,016 8 2 1140.3
2023 Q3 6,969 2 0 287.0
2023 Q2 3,651 13 2 3560.7
2023 Q1 4,668 2 0 428.4
2022 Q4 7,314 3 2 410.2
2022 Q3 8,525 4 2 469.2
Show 55 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q2 7,679 20 7 2604.5
2022 Q1 3,444 11 4 3194.0
2021 Q4 784 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 916 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 896 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 930 1 1 1075.3
2020 Q4 1,400 1 0 714.3
2020 Q3 576 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 576 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 9,616 6 3 624.0
2019 Q4 11,014 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 13,775 8 1 580.8
2019 Q2 12,665 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 8,013 4 2 499.2
2018 Q4 6,625 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 6,232 2 1 320.9
2018 Q2 6,319 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 7,394 6 1 811.5
2017 Q4 5,065 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,714 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,673 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,217 2 0 902.1
2016 Q4 1,092 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,086 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,249 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 952 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,550 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,668 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,600 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 2,268 1 0 440.9
2014 Q4 2,232 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,506 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,520 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,524 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,324 1 0 430.3
2013 Q3 3,110 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 2,956 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 2,800 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,953 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 11,180 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 17,050 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 18,990 17 7 895.2
2011 Q4 17,676 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 13,663 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 17,381 9 7 517.8
2011 Q1 15,566 2 0 128.5
2010 Q4 8,932 7 3 783.7
2010 Q3 0 0 0
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 0 7 0
2006 Q1 8,417 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 5,935 10 3 1684.9
2005 Q3 0 1 1
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2022 · 2 incidents

August 16, 2022 VA · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
True Energy Fuels LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was attempting to cut a tree when EE's saw got hung & EE then advised colleague to release the tree that was holding the initial tree & this resulted in the initial tree pushing up by the stump where EE was, resulting in EE's injury. Broken leg.

February 24, 2022 VA · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey HANDLING OF MATERIALS
True Energy Fuels LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Removing an explosives sign that was attached to an old Mack brake drum, felt a pop in EE's right shoulder

2019 · 1 incident

January 3, 2019 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
True Energy Fuels LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The injured employee stepped on a rock and their foot slipped. Employee twisted their left knee and was on restricted activity for one day.

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The full compliance file on True Energy Fuels Mine No. 2

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.