Windsor Coal Company: 463 MSHA citations operator
Controlled by
CONSOL Energy Inc
MSHA operator ID: P24677
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 21
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2001–2002
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
463
citations
225
significant & substantial
$190,719
proposed penalties
$161,312
paid to date
85% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $29,407 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
72
inspections on record
2,989
inspection hours
15.5
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.463 citations across 2,989 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.$191K
proposed penalties
$161K
current assessed
$161K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
458 assessments are final orders; 13 contested dockets.
Of $76K in penalties contested before the Commission, $47K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-11-17.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.48.9%
significant & substantial
4.1%
high negligence or reckless
48.7%
reasonably likely or greater
3.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.0% low, 90.8% moderate, 4.1% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2002
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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.3.44
total case rate
3.44
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 6.89 and the all-US-mining average was 5.05 cases per 100 workers.
| Year | total case rate | days-away | fatal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 3.44 | 3.44 | 0.000 |
| 2001 | 4.56 | 2.73 | 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
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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
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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: 2002-07-16, 24 years ago
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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.71%
within 1.5 mg/m3
140
samples
9.54
dust max (mg/m3)
84 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 56 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
- LONGWALL(RETURN-SIDE FACE WORKER)47
- CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR21
- HEADGATE OPERATOR9
Silica (quartz)
Last sampled: 2002-07-23, 24 years ago3.4
silica avg (%)
7
samples
5.3
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
- LONGWALL(RETURN-SIDE FACE WORKER)5
- CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR2
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.
Contested penalties
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WEVA20030001 | Settlement | Weisberger | 2003 | $25K → $15K |
| WEVA20030163 | Settlement | Schroeder | 2003 | $11K → $7K |
| WEVA20020104 | Settlement | Weisberger | 2002 | $10K → $7K |
| WEVA20030039 | Settlement | Weisberger | 2003 | $8K → $4K |
| WEVA20030037 | Settlement | Weisberger | 2003 | $5K → $3K |
| WEVA20020092 | Settlement | Weisberger | 2002 | $4K → $3K |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Top causes
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 11 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 3 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 2 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 2 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 2 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL 1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2002
10
2001
11
Mines on record
- Windsor Mine WV
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Where Windsor 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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