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I O Coal Company, LLC: 1,512 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Patriot Coal Corporation
MSHA operator ID: P24251

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
126
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2001–2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
1,512
citations
585
significant & substantial
$2,700,471
proposed penalties
$1,329,573
paid to date
49% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,370,898 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
125
inspections on record
9,199
inspection hours
16.4
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.
1,512 citations across 9,199 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.
$2.7M
proposed penalties
$1.3M
current assessed
$1.3M
paid to date
$4K
outstanding
1,481 assessments are final orders; 39 contested dockets.
Of $2.4M in penalties contested before the Commission, $899K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-05-05.
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.
39.5%
significant & substantial
3.5%
high negligence or reckless
39.8%
reasonably likely or greater
14.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.7% low, 91.8% moderate, 3.4% high, 0.1% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2009
ⓘ 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 4.16 and the all-US-mining average was 3.36 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
2009 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2008 12.19 7.17 0.000
2007 10.40 4.89 0.000
2006 9.01 4.16 0.000
2005 14.74 9.83 0.000
2004 11.93 10.94 0.000
2003 8.56 7.34 0.000
2002 * 12.90 7.74 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: 2008-11-17, 17 years ago
93%
within 1.5 mg/m3
1,097
samples
6.93
dust max (mg/m3)
461 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 636 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR647
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)108
  • ROOF BOLTER (SINGLE HEAD)95

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2008-09-18, 17 years ago
7.8
silica avg (%)
55
samples
21.9
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR49
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: 2008-05-28, 18 years ago
12%
over PEL
50
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • ROOF BOLTER (SINGLE HEAD)13
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR12
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)10
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.
341 citations taken to the federal commission · 23% of citations on record
  • Settled 336 · 99%
  • Stood as issued 5 · 1%
92%
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 288 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
60%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2.3M proposed, $899K 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 2009-07-09. 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 2008-1105 Settlement Barbour 2010 $696K → $198K
WEVA 2008-1687 Settlement Barbour 2010 $360K → $91K
WEVA 2009-495 Settlement Bulluck 2011 $200K → $103K
WEVA 2009-411 Settlement Feldman 2011 $150K → $34K
WEVA 2008-686 Settlement Bulluck 2010 $90K → $50K
WEVA 2008-1450 Settlement Paez 2009 $89K → $19K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2009
2
2008
21
2007
24
2006
20
2005
25
2004
17
2003
10
2002
5
2001
2

Mines on record

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Where I O Coal 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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