Mining Incidents

Triple G Coal Company, Inc: 165 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: 0107385

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Mines on record
0
Years on record
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
165
citations
46
significant & substantial
$331,812
proposed penalties
$83,726
paid to date
25% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $248,086 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
46
inspections on record
1,221
inspection hours
13.5
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.
165 citations across 1,221 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.
$332K
proposed penalties
$84K
current assessed
$84K
paid to date
$151
outstanding
159 assessments are final orders; 24 contested dockets.
Of $371K in penalties contested before the Commission, $63K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-09-30.
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.
28.9%
significant & substantial
13.2%
high negligence or reckless
28.3%
reasonably likely or greater
55.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 17.0% low, 69.8% moderate, 12.6% high, 0.6% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2012
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
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US coal mining average was 3.74 and the all-US-mining average was 2.96 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
2012 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2010 * 0.00 0.00 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: 2013-04-03, 13 years ago
96%
within 1.5 mg/m3
134
samples
2.38
dust max (mg/m3)
59 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 75 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR73
  • SCOOP CAR OPERATOR9
  • TRACTOR OPERATOR/MOTORMAN8

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2013-04-02, 13 years ago
6.7
silica avg (%)
9
samples
11.2
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR5

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: 2011-02-03, 15 years ago
0%
over PEL
2
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • DISPATCHER1
  • UTILITY MAN1
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.
66 citations taken to the federal commission · 40% of citations on record
  • Settled 66 · 100%
72%
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 46 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
80%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$311K proposed, $63K 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 2014-09-30. 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 2012-1380 Settlement Simonton 2013 $145K → $8K
WEVA 2012-629 Settlement Simonton 2013 $120K → $1K
WEVA 2012-37 Settlement Feldman 2014 $30K → $9K
WEVA 2012-1314 Settlement Simonton 2015 $18K → $4K
WEVA 2012-1004 Settlement Simonton 2015 $13K → $13K
WEVA 2012-278 Settlement Simonton 2014 $7K → $5K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents associated with this operator.

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Where Triple G 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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