Mining Incidents

Bird Refuse Pile Coal

Tire Hill, Somerset County, PA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3610406

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2024
Latest incident
Dec 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2023
10
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,500
proposed penalties
$1,500
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 5,146 3 0 583.0
2025 Q3 5,256 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,376 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 4,010 3 0 748.1
2024 Q4 1,051 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 995 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,902 1 0 344.6
2024 Q1 2,860 1 0 349.7
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2024 · 1 incident

December 17, 2024 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Robindale Energy Services, Inc. · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was walking down a sloped embankment near the fuel tank and slipped due to muddy conditions and fell onto right shoulder. Employee did not miss any scheduled work or receive medical treatment until 1/31/2025, when employee had the shoulder operated on for rotator cuff damage.