98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $769 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
214
inspections on record
6,287
inspection hours
5.3
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.
332 citations across 6,287 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.
$48K
proposed penalties
$48K
current assessed
$48K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
324 assessments are final orders; 7 contested dockets.
Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-03-14.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2005
ⓘ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.
1.52
total case rate
0.87
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 5.11 and the all-US-mining average was 4.21 cases per 100 workers.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2005
1.52
0.87
0.000
2004
3.17
2.27
0.000
2003
5.16
3.36
0.000
2002
8.41
6.42
0.000
2001
5.40
4.23
0.000
2000
5.28
3.60
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: 2005-08-22, 21 years ago
97%
within 1.5 mg/m3
351
samples
5.36
dust max (mg/m3)
232 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 119 by the operator.
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.
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.
August 29, 2004WV · Coalelectrician, linemanFatality · ELECTRICAL
Hobet Mining Inc · Contact with electrical current
EE was making electrical repairs to the load side loop on a deenergized pole mounted solid blade disconnect switch. He had finished the repair work and was starting to come down the pole. Some how he received an electrical shock and fell down the pole.
CONTRACTOR FELL THROUGH PUNCH PLATE DECKING INTO RAW COAL CLASSIFYING CYCLONE AND DROWN.
April 2, 1997WV · Coalwireman, communications manFatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Hobet Mining Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
EMPLOYEE HAD A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT. HE WAS DRIVING ON A DIRT AND GRAVEL ROAD. HIS VEHICLE OVERTURNED AND HE WAS THROWN FROM THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE THEN ROLLED ONTO EMPLOYEE.
July 28, 1994WV · Coalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerFatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Hobet Mining Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
THE EMPLOYEE POSITIONED A PICK-UP TRUCK APPROXIMATELY 10 FT. IN FRONT OF A 170 WABCO. HE APPARENTLY DID NOT MAKE HIMSELF KNOWN TO THE DRIVER. THE DRIVER PULLED FORWARD FATALLY INJURING THE VIC TIM.
July 14, 1994WV · Coalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techFatality · ELECTRICAL
Hobet Mining Inc · Contact with electrical current
USING A 110V AC SINGLE PHASE IMPACT WRENCH WHEN HE RECEIVED AN ELECTRICAL SHOCK.
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 SUPERVISING THE REMOVAL SHEAVES FROM THE DRAGLINE BOOM THE P & H CRANE OPERATOR HAD THE JIB IN THE AIR PREPARING TO LIFT THE HOIST CABLES OF THE DRAGLINE BOOM AND WHEN HE HAD LIFTED THE CAB5E APPROX 8 IN THE JIB FELL STRIKING EMPLOYEE AT THE BASE OF HIS HEAD THE FORCE OF THE IMPACT KNOCKED HIM INTO THE DRAGLINE SHEAVE THUS CAUSING THE CRUSHING FATAL INJURY TO EMPL
THE COAL HAULAGE TRUCK WAS HAULING COAL DOWN THE MAIN HAULAGE ROAD TO THE PREPARATION PLANT WHEN THE EMPLOYEE LOST CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE. THE TRUCK LEFT THE ROADWAY IN A CURVE ANS APPARENTLY ROLLED AT LEAST ONCE THROWING THE OPERATOR OUT OF THE VEHICLE.
For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants
Where Hobet 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.