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Enterprise Mining Company, LLC: 1 recorded fatality operator

Controlled by Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc
MSHA operator ID: 0051027

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
249
Mines on record
13
Years on record
2003–2016
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
2,024
citations
428
significant & substantial
$728,623
proposed penalties
$647,353
paid to date
89% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $81,270 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
828
inspections on record
37,230
inspection hours
5.4
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.
2,024 citations across 37,230 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.
$729K
proposed penalties
$650K
current assessed
$647K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
1,992 assessments are final orders; 75 contested dockets.
Of $299K in penalties contested before the Commission, $215K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-11-30.
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.
21.5%
significant & substantial
1.2%
high negligence or reckless
21.5%
reasonably likely or greater
10.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.1% none, 8.5% low, 90.3% moderate, 1.2% high, 0.0% 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.
1.67
total case rate
1.67
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below 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 1.67 1.67 0.000
2015 3.67 1.47 0.000
2014 7.08 2.36 0.000
2013 7.76 1.29 0.000
2012 18.93 2.16 0.000
2011 3.47 1.44 0.000
2010 2.48 1.10 0.000
2009 5.09 2.54 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: 2016-06-22, 10 years ago
94%
within 1.5 mg/m3
4,014
samples
18.40
dust max (mg/m3)
2
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.
2,102 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 1,912 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR1,584
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)414
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)362

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2016-06-17, 10 years ago
4.9
silica avg (%)
329
samples
22.5
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR137
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)39
  • CLEANUP MAN13
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: 2016-05-18, 10 years ago
7%
over PEL
646
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)87
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR69
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (INTAKE SIDE)58
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.
273 citations taken to the federal commission · 13% of citations on record
  • Settled 270 · 99%
  • Stood as issued 3 · 1%
89%
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 151 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
27%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$286K proposed, $207K 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 2015-07-14. 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 2009-996 Settlement Barbour 2011 $35K → $20K
KENT 2009-758 Settlement Feldman 2011 $26K → $19K
KENT 2009-486 Settlement Melick 2011 $20K → $14K
KENT 2012-734 Settlement Feldman 2013 $17K → $11K
KENT 2012-921 Settlement Simonton 2012 $15K → $11K
KENT 2009-1409 Settlement Rae 2012 $14K → $12K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2016
3
2015
6
2014
14
2013
12
2012
39
2011
19
2010
13
2009
30
2008
19
2007
15
2006
24
2005
18 (1f)
2004
17
2003
20

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
November 4, 2005 KY · Coal master electrician Fatality · ELECTRICAL
Enterprise Mining Company, L. L. C. · Contact with electrical current

The victim was demonstrating the features of the fault wizard. During the demonstration in the mine office he received an electrical shock and collapsed.

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Where Enterprise Mining 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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