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Eagle Coal Company Inc: 1,428 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by James H Booth
MSHA operator ID: P21614

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
199
Mines on record
16
Years on record
1992–2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
1,428
citations
341
significant & substantial
$271,643
proposed penalties
$222,974
paid to date
82% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $48,669 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
432
inspections on record
20,946
inspection hours
6.8
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.
1,428 citations across 20,946 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.
$272K
proposed penalties
$233K
current assessed
$223K
paid to date
$10K
outstanding
1,382 assessments are final orders; 169 contested dockets.
Of $192K in penalties contested before the Commission, $152K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-10-26.
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.
24.6%
significant & substantial
1.4%
high negligence or reckless
25.4%
reasonably likely or greater
12.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 14.3% low, 84.3% moderate, 1.4% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2017
ⓘ 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.
3.90
total case rate
1.95
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
About average. The US coal mining average was 3.79 and the all-US-mining average was 2.48 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2017 3.90 1.95 0.000
2016 16.73 16.73 0.000
2015 8.62 7.18 0.000
2014 2.41 1.21 0.000
2013 5.96 1.49 0.000
2012 8.84 5.05 0.000
2011 7.04 5.87 0.000
2010 8.22 4.11 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: 2017-08-16, 9 years ago
96%
within 1.5 mg/m3
2,520
samples
11.95
dust max (mg/m3)
4
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.
960 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 1,560 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR1,128
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)440
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)230

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2017-08-24, 9 years ago
7.2
silica avg (%)
95
samples
27.5
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR60
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)2
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (OFF STANDARD)2
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: 2017-08-30, 8 years ago
5%
over PEL
250
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)64
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR45
  • SCOOP CAR OPERATOR35
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.
388 citations taken to the federal commission · 27% of citations on record
  • Settled 374 · 96%
  • Stood as issued 14 · 4%
98%
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 191 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
21%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$163K proposed, $129K 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 2017-11-02. 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 2011-149 Settlement Barbour 2012 $18K → $12K
KENT 2017-0036 Settlement Steele 2017 $8K → $6K
KENT 2014-0451 Settlement McCarthy 2014 $6K → $5K
KENT 2013-132 Settlement Miller 2013 $5K → $4K
KENT 2016-0512 Settlement Steele 2017 $5K → $4K
KENT 2009-1066 Settlement Lesnick 2009 $5K → $4K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2017
2
2016
14
2015
8
2014
3
2013
4
2012
7
2011
7
2010
8
2009
13
2008
14
2007
15
2006
14
2005
6
2004
6
2003
7
2002
9
2001
7
2000
3
1999
1
1998
9
1997
7
1996
6
1995
10
1994
4
1993
11
1992
4

Mines on record

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Where Eagle Coal Company 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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