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Red River Coal Company Inc: 876 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by William D Humphreys
MSHA operator ID: P16682

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
200
Mines on record
3
Years on record
1987–2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
876
citations
342
significant & substantial
$365,557
proposed penalties
$217,985
paid to date
60% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $147,572 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
362
inspections on record
12,286
inspection hours
7.1
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.
876 citations across 12,286 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.
$366K
proposed penalties
$218K
current assessed
$218K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
871 assessments are final orders; 42 contested dockets.
Of $271K in penalties contested before the Commission, $117K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-01.
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.
39.3%
significant & substantial
2.8%
high negligence or reckless
39.6%
reasonably likely or greater
28.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.1% none, 17.7% low, 79.4% moderate, 2.8% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ 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 3.19 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 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
2025 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2024 * 4.38 0.00 0.000
2023 * 7.64 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 2.60 2.60 0.000
2020 * 5.50 5.50 0.000
2019 * 2.46 2.46 0.000
2018 3.95 3.95 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: 2026-04-21
98%
within 1.5 mg/m3
664
samples
2.46
dust max (mg/m3)
1
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.
474 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 190 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR178
  • COAL SAMPLER107
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER100

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2026-04-13
2.3
silica avg (%)
56
samples
6.1
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • COAL SAMPLER21
  • FINE COAL PLANT OPERATOR15
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR10
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: 2025-10-06
3%
over PEL
247
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER47
  • REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE32
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR30
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.
177 citations taken to the federal commission · 20% of citations on record
  • Settled 177 · 100%
67%
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 115 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
56%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$264K proposed, $117K 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 2023-12-10. 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
VA 2014-0422 Settlement Feldman 2016 $74K → $15K
VA 2014-0239 Prevail Feldman 2017 $58K → $17K
VA 2013-115 Settlement Feldman 2014 $18K → $12K
VA 2010-536 Settlement Moran 2012 $15K → $10K
VA 2014-0237 Prevail Feldman 2017 $12K → $5K
VA 2014-124 Settlement Feldman 2014 $12K → $5K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2024
1
2023
2
2021
1
2020
2
2019
1
2018
2
2017
3
2016
2
2015
3
2014
3
2013
3
2012
3
2011
5
2010
6
2009
5
2008
3
2007
6
2006
6
2005
2
2004
3
2003
3
2002
4
2001
12
2000
10
1999
6
1998
14
1997
11
1996
4
1995
15
1994
5
1993
12
1992
8
1991
8
1990
7
1989
11
1988
5
1987
3

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Where Red River 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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