White Haven Plant-White Haven Red Rock has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $360 outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
8
Years on record
1990–2025
Latest incident
May 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
82
citations
16
significant & substantial
$13,137
proposed penalties
$11,648
paid to date
89% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,489 gap.
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: 825 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
White Haven Plant-White Haven Red Rock has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $360 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.
$13K
proposed penalties
$12K
current assessed
$12K
paid to date
$360
outstanding
80 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $3K in penalties contested before the Commission, $2K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-24.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘShares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
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.
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘMany samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2026-06-24
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
23
samples
7
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg14
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz8
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (23)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2026-06-24
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.14
0.84
0.17
Crusher Oper/Worker
2026-06-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2026-06-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2022-07-20
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.13
Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-07-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2018-05-30
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2018-05-30
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2014-09-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2014-09-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2014-09-17
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.16
0.46
0.35
Utility Man
2014-09-17
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.29
0.39
0.74
Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-05-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2009-05-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.2
0.53
0.38
Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-05-28
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.36
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-08-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.14
0.43
0.33
Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-08-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2005-08-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
1.12
0.13
Truck Driver
2005-08-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2005-08-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2002-06-25
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-06-25
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Scale Man
2002-06-25
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2002-06-25
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.24
1.23
0.20
Front-end Loader Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
White Haven Plant-White Haven Red Rock recorded 8.41 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
8.41
total case rate
8.41
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Pennsylvania, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.07 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2025 *
8.41
8.41
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
8.41
8.41
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2016 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2015 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2013 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2012 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
10
2025
11
2024
9
2023
11
2022
11
2021
9
2020
8
2019
8
2018
9
2017
7
2016
10
2015
9
2014
9
2013
8
2012
10
2011
9
2010
9
2009
8
2008
9
2007
9
2006
8
2005
10
2004
15
2003
18
2002
18
2001
11
2000
11
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
White Haven Plant-White Haven Red Rock sits in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 0.2% of county employment.
Local economic context
ⓘCounty figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania · Population 325,978
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$62,321
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
The employee was doing a ground level repair to a water valve. While exiting the repair area, they attempted to step over a water pipe and a connected hose. Their feet did not clear this structure, and they lost balance and fell onto a concrete slab causing injury to their right shoulder. No safety rule violations were attributed to this incident.
2022 · 1 incident
December 5, 2022PA · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
The miner was picking up a 4FT wire rope sling. As EE slid EE's gloved hand through the end loop, it pushed EE's shirt sleeve up, exposing EE's arm. When EE lifted upward, the cable rotated on EE's forearm. A broken wire strand on the sling loop penetrated the skin, became lodged and required medical treatment to remove it. The injury was minor.
2017 · 1 incident
April 13, 2017PA · Metal/Non-Metalwelder (shop)ALL OTHER OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESSES