Mining Incidents

Double A Mining Inc: 587 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Alice Hall
MSHA operator ID: 0051016

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Mines on record
2
Years on record
2004–2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
587
citations
204
significant & substantial
$638,612
proposed penalties
$2,826
paid to date
0% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $635,786 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
51
inspections on record
3,126
inspection hours
18.8
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.
587 citations across 3,126 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.
$639K
proposed penalties
$639K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$636K
outstanding
574 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-03-17.
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.
35.5%
significant & substantial
4.5%
high negligence or reckless
35.7%
reasonably likely or greater
12.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.0% low, 88.5% moderate, 4.4% high, 0.2% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2008
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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 4.41 and the all-US-mining average was 3.61 cases per 100 workers.
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
2008 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2007 * 4.32 4.32 0.000
2005 * 13.73 13.73 0.000
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 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.
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: 2009-03-03, 17 years ago
86%
within 1.5 mg/m3
413
samples
6.21
dust max (mg/m3)
222 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 191 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CUTTING MACHINE OPERATOR139
  • SCOOP CAR OPERATOR46
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR35

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2008-12-24, 17 years ago
3.3
silica avg (%)
34
samples
13.6
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CUTTING MACHINE OPERATOR11
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR6

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: 2008-11-10, 17 years ago
0%
over PEL
42
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • ROOF BOLTER (SINGLE HEAD)9
  • COAL DRILL OPERATOR7
  • CUTTING MACHINE OPERATOR7
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2009
1
2007
1
2006
1
2005
3
2004
1

Mines on record

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Where Double A Mining Inc 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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