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Cloverlick Coal Company LLC: 1,377 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
MSHA operator ID: P24342

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
171
Mines on record
2
Years on record
2001–2012
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
1,377
citations
392
significant & substantial
$560,538
proposed penalties
$458,760
paid to date
82% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $101,778 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
209
inspections on record
16,074
inspection hours
8.6
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.
1,377 citations across 16,074 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
ⓘ Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$561K
proposed penalties
$459K
current assessed
$459K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
1,338 assessments are final orders; 115 contested dockets.
Of $484K in penalties contested before the Commission, $368K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-12-04.
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.
29.1%
significant & substantial
0.7%
high negligence or reckless
29.5%
reasonably likely or greater
11.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.2% low, 95.0% moderate, 0.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2012
ⓘ 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.
8.46
total case rate
5.44
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US coal mining average was 3.74 and the all-US-mining average was 2.96 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2012 8.46 5.44 0.000
2011 7.51 5.01 0.000
2010 10.56 5.63 0.000
2009 11.57 4.45 0.000
2008 16.32 6.72 0.000
2007 15.33 4.38 0.000
2006 15.87 7.32 0.000
2005 7.46 1.24 0.000
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.
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.

Last sampled: 2012-12-14, 13 years ago
93%
within 1.5 mg/m3
2,324
samples
5.75
dust max (mg/m3)
1,146 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 1,178 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR1,050
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)203
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (INTAKE SIDE)100

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2012-08-21, 14 years ago
7.3
silica avg (%)
159
samples
29.2
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR79
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER1
See US coal mines ranked by silica in their dust samples.

Noise
ⓘ The share counts noise samples whose measured dose exceeded the 90 dBA permissible exposure limit. It describes the sampled workplace, not what reached the miner's ear: hearing conservation programs and the hearing protection worn during the shift are recorded separately and are not reflected here.

Last sampled: 2012-10-23, 13 years ago
15%
over PEL
342
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)68
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR60
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (INTAKE SIDE)40
See US mines ranked by noise samples over the legal limit.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
512 citations taken to the federal commission · 37% of citations on record
  • Settled 439 · 86%
  • Stood as issued 73 · 14%
94%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 283 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
23%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$444K proposed, $343K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2013-06-17. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.
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 operator contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
KENT 2009-137 Settlement Lesnick 2010 $35K → $24K
KENT 2008-1377 Settlement Melick 2010 $26K → $19K
KENT 2008-754 Settlement Paez 2010 $25K → $18K
KENT 2008-258 Settlement Zielinski 2008 $17K → $13K
KENT 2008-497 Prevail Hodgdon 2009 $17K → $3K
KENT 2009-1360 Settlement Paez 2010 $12K → $8K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2012
16
2011
18
2010
19
2009
16
2008
17
2007
16
2006
15
2005
8
2004
8
2003
8
2002
13
2001
17

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Where Cloverlick Coal Company LLC stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample, score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.

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