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Rockspring Development Inc: 4,783 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc
MSHA operator ID: 0060463

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
316
Mines on record
2
Years on record
2005–2016
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
4,783
citations
1,235
significant & substantial
$5,517,104
proposed penalties
$3,404,900
paid to date
62% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,112,204 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
711
inspections on record
48,535
inspection hours
9.9
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.
4,783 citations across 48,535 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.
$5.5M
proposed penalties
$3.8M
current assessed
$3.4M
paid to date
$399K
outstanding
4,718 assessments are final orders; 151 contested dockets.
Of $4.9M in penalties contested before the Commission, $2.8M was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-09-20.
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.
26.2%
significant & substantial
1.7%
high negligence or reckless
27.7%
reasonably likely or greater
23.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.2% none, 15.2% low, 82.9% moderate, 1.6% high, 0.1% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2015
ⓘ 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.
5.93
total case rate
4.53
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US coal mining average was 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 2.72 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2015 5.93 4.53 0.000
2014 2.99 1.68 0.000
2013 2.43 0.56 0.000
2012 3.26 1.15 0.000
2011 2.74 0.55 0.000
2010 3.41 1.14 0.000
2009 4.02 1.51 0.000
2008 4.96 1.04 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: 2017-08-23, 9 years ago
97%
within 1.5 mg/m3
6,373
samples
7.26
dust max (mg/m3)
8
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.
2,859 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 3,514 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR3,082
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)686
  • ELECTRICIAN300

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2016-09-27, 9 years ago
7.2
silica avg (%)
545
samples
39.5
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR312
  • UTILITY MAN13
  • ELECTRICIAN12
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: 2017-03-16, 9 years ago
8%
over PEL
538
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)138
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR87
  • ROOF BOLTER (SINGLE HEAD)65
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.
1,684 citations taken to the federal commission · 35% of citations on record
  • Settled 1,644 · 98%
  • Stood as issued 38 · 2%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 2 · 0%
64%
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 1,373 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
38%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$4.5M proposed, $2.8M 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 2016-04-20. 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 2016-0137 Settlement McCarthy 2016 $145K → $72K
WEVA 2015-0428 Settlement McCarthy 2016 $140K → $70K
WEVA 2014-2240 Settlement Simonton 2015 $119K → $77K
WEVA 2012-692 Settlement Feldman 2013 $115K → $75K
WEVA 2011-1085 Settlement Andrews 2015 $114K → $59K
WEVA 2009-1356 Settlement Lesnick 2010 $95K → $36K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2016
28
2015
21
2014
27
2013
21
2012
28
2011
28
2010
42
2009
29
2008
33
2007
19
2006
28
2005
12

Mines on record

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Where Rockspring Development 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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