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Glow Worm Coal Company: 791 MSHA citations operator

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MSHA operator ID: P24691

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Mines on record
6
Years on record
2001–2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
791
citations
191
significant & substantial
$721,732
proposed penalties
$197,922
paid to date
27% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $523,810 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
152
inspections on record
5,604
inspection hours
14.1
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.
791 citations across 5,604 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.
$722K
proposed penalties
$694K
current assessed
$198K
paid to date
$496K
outstanding
776 assessments are final orders; 7 contested dockets.
Of $489K in penalties contested before the Commission, $424K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-07-06.
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
5.4%
high negligence or reckless
25.0%
reasonably likely or greater
32.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.4% none, 37.4% low, 56.8% moderate, 4.9% high, 0.5% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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: 2022-02-03, 4 years ago
94%
within 1.5 mg/m3
593
samples
5.77
dust max (mg/m3)
3
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.
264 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 329 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR280
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)51
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)48

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2022-02-11, 4 years ago
6.2
silica avg (%)
51
samples
25.4
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR31
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)11
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: 2021-10-19, 4 years ago
3%
over PEL
67
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)12
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR10
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)6
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.
37 citations taken to the federal commission · 5% of citations on record
  • Settled 28 · 76%
  • Stood as issued 9 · 24%
86%
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 28 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
6%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$448K proposed, $421K 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 2013-09-30. 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
WEVA 2008-1835 Default Lesnick 2010 $365K → $365K
WEVA 2012-956 Settlement Simonton 2013 $106K → $50K
WEVA 2014-8 Settlement Rae 2014 $6K → $4K
WEVA 2012-1678 Settlement Simonton 2013 $5K → $2K
WEVA 2012-802 Settlement Lesnick 2014 $5K → $971
WEVA 2012-475 Settlement Simonton 2013 $3K → $2K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2021
2
2013
1
2010
1
2008
3
2002
2
2001
1

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Where Glow Worm Coal Company 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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