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Powell Mountain Coal Company Inc: 291 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Florida Progress Corporation
MSHA operator ID: P24201

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
92
Mines on record
7
Years on record
1997–2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
291
citations
131
significant & substantial
$52,046
proposed penalties
$46,600
paid to date
90% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $5,446 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
83
inspections on record
2,192
inspection hours
13.3
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.
291 citations across 2,192 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.
$52K
proposed penalties
$47K
current assessed
$47K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
284 assessments are final orders; 11 contested dockets.
Of $20K in penalties contested before the Commission, $14K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2000-11-29.
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.
46.0%
significant & substantial
1.1%
high negligence or reckless
48.4%
reasonably likely or greater
4.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 1.4% low, 97.5% moderate, 1.1% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2000
ⓘ 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.
11.56
total case rate
7.54
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US coal mining average was 7.74 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
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: 2000-11-29, 25 years ago
85%
within 1.5 mg/m3
322
samples
8.32
dust max (mg/m3)
150 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 172 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR150
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)26
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (INTAKE SIDE)15

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2000-11-28, 25 years ago
6.3
silica avg (%)
36
samples
21.0
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR13
  • HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR1
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: 2000-03-28, 26 years ago
13%
over PEL
15
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)4
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR3
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)3
See US mines ranked by noise samples over the legal limit.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.
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
KENT20020208 Settlement Feldman 2002 $12K → $9K
KENT20010133 Settlement Feldman 2001 $2K → $1K
KENT20000213 Settlement Feldman 2000 $1K → $1K
VA 20010005 Settlement Barbour 2001 $1K → $470
VA 20010002 Settlement Barbour 2000 $951 → $566
KENT20010275 Settlement Bulluck 2001 $777 → $444
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2000
28
1999
24
1998
31
1997
9

Mines on record

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Where Powell Mountain 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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