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The Monongalia County Coal Company: 2,665 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Robert E Murray
MSHA operator ID: 0143033

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
223
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2016–2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2016
2,665
citations
441
significant & substantial
$1,974,887
proposed penalties
$1,575,066
paid to date
80% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $399,821 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
628
inspections on record
27,947
inspection hours
9.5
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.
2,665 citations across 27,947 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.
$2.0M
proposed penalties
$1.8M
current assessed
$1.6M
paid to date
$177K
outstanding
2,647 assessments are final orders; 80 contested dockets.
Of $1.1M in penalties contested before the Commission, $844K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-09-16.
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.
16.7%
significant & substantial
4.3%
high negligence or reckless
16.8%
reasonably likely or greater
16.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.1% none, 39.1% low, 56.5% moderate, 4.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2020
ⓘ 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.
8.96
total case rate
8.15
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US coal mining average was 3.19 and the all-US-mining average was 2.08 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2020 8.96 8.15 0.000
2019 7.64 5.78 0.000
2018 7.03 5.11 0.000
2017 9.78 7.92 0.000
2016 6.54 5.88 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: 2020-09-16, 5 years ago
97%
within 1.5 mg/m3
1,812
samples
32.71
dust max (mg/m3)
36
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.
400 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 1,412 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR414
  • ROOF BOLTER (MOUNTED) (RETURN SIDE)300
  • LONGWALL OPERATOR (TAILGATE SIDE)267

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2020-07-27, 6 years ago
2.4
silica avg (%)
97
samples
7.0
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR27
  • LONGWALL OPERATOR (TAILGATE SIDE)17
  • ROOF BOLTER (MOUNTED) (RETURN SIDE)17
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: 2020-09-16, 5 years ago
23%
over PEL
194
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • UTILITY MAN17
  • ROOF BOLTER (MOUNTED) (INTAKE SIDE)13
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR12
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.
512 citations taken to the federal commission · 19% of citations on record
  • Settled 499 · 97%
  • Stood as issued 13 · 3%
91%
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 245 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
21%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1.1M proposed, $842K 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 2021-09-08. 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
PENN 2020-0020 Settlement McCarthy 2020 $66K → $55K
PENN 2018-0248 Settlement Lewis 2018 $61K → $37K
PENN 2019-0043 Settlement Feldman 2019 $58K → $51K
PENN 2018-0262 Settlement Lewis 2018 $41K → $33K
PENN 2019-0004 Settlement Lewis 2019 $39K → $24K
PENN 2018-0273 Settlement Lewis 2019 $39K → $24K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2020
33
2019
56
2018
48
2017
53
2016
33

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Where The Monongalia County Coal Company 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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