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Cumberland Coal Resources LP: 4,009 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
MSHA operator ID: P24238

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1,006
Mines on record
1
Years on record
1999–2016
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
4,009
citations
1,310
significant & substantial
$3,707,469
proposed penalties
$1,998,304
paid to date
54% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,709,165 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
1,966
inspections on record
91,095
inspection hours
4.4
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.
4,009 citations across 91,095 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.
$3.7M
proposed penalties
$2.3M
current assessed
$2.0M
paid to date
$275K
outstanding
3,897 assessments are final orders; 156 contested dockets.
Of $3.0M in penalties contested before the Commission, $1.5M was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-07-25.
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.
33.3%
significant & substantial
3.5%
high negligence or reckless
34.6%
reasonably likely or greater
11.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.3% none, 18.8% low, 77.4% moderate, 3.3% high, 0.2% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2016
ⓘ 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.
7.76
total case rate
5.69
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US coal mining average was 3.79 and the all-US-mining average was 2.59 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2016 7.76 5.69 0.000
2015 6.30 3.02 0.000
2014 6.68 3.89 0.000
2013 6.36 2.95 0.000
2012 4.86 3.45 0.000
2011 4.88 2.91 0.000
2010 5.17 3.41 0.000
2009 5.90 3.86 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: 2016-07-22, 10 years ago
92%
within 1.5 mg/m3
5,746
samples
11.13
dust max (mg/m3)
12
over MSHA ECV
ⓘ The excessive concentration value (ECV) is MSHA's own per-sample enforcement threshold, which builds in measurement uncertainty; a sample over its ECV can trigger a citation. The count covers only samples MSHA assigned an ECV.
2,496 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 3,250 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR2,067
  • LONGWALL OPERATOR (TAILGATE SIDE)694
  • MECHANIC360

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2016-06-17, 10 years ago
2.5
silica avg (%)
185
samples
15.9
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • LONGWALL OPERATOR (TAILGATE SIDE)78
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR76
  • MOTORMAN/LOCOMOTIVE OPERATOR6
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: 2016-06-14, 10 years ago
16%
over PEL
473
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • ROOF BOLTER (MOUNTED) (RETURN SIDE)54
  • ROOF BOLTER (MOUNTED) (INTAKE SIDE)51
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR50
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.
594 citations taken to the federal commission · 15% of citations on record
  • Settled 552 · 93%
  • Stood as issued 37 · 6%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 5 · 1%
73%
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 391 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
50%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2.8M proposed, $1.4M 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 2017-01-15. 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
PENN 2009-38 Settlement Zielinski 2013 $468K → $169K
PENN 2009-120 Settlement Barbour 2013 $258K → $18K
PENN 2008-579 Settlement Paez 2011 $184K → $40K
PENN 2016-0265 Settlement Lesnick 2017 $159K → $80K
PENN 2016-0187 Settlement Lesnick 2017 $140K → $70K
PENN 2008-498 Settlement Paez 2011 $120K → $42K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2016
38
2015
70
2014
72
2013
60
2012
60
2011
65
2010
58
2009
69
2008
56
2007
74
2006
37
2005
49
2004
46
2003
56
2002
57
2001
39
2000
74
1999
26

Mines on record

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Where Cumberland Coal Resources LP 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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