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Black Bear #4 Coal

Paramont Coal Company Virginia, LLC · Surface

Controlled by Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.

Dante, Russell County, VA · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4407059

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2003
Latest incident: Jun 2003

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2002

citations

significant & substantial

$523

proposed penalties

$523

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	Per 1M hrs
2004 Q2	12,641	1	79.1
2004 Q1	3,290	1	304.0
2002 Q4	10,793	1	92.7
2002 Q3	260	0	0.0

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2003 · 2 incidents

June 5, 2003 VA · Coal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Paramont Coal Company Virginia, LLC · Fall from machine

THE ALLEGED INCIDENT OCCURRED ON 6-5-03 WHEN THE EE WAS DISMOUNTING THE CAB OF HIS LUBE TRUCK WHEN HIS RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE GROUND STRIKING LEFT ELBOW. EE CONTINUED TO WORK REGULAR DUTIES UNTIL 7-22-03 AT WHICH TIMEHE WAS PLACED ON RESTRICTED WORK ACTIVITY BY A MEDICAL SPECIALIST.

January 8, 2003 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Paramont Coal Company Virginia, LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

THE INJURED EE WAS STANDING IN THE EE PARKING AREA WAITING FOR THE SHIFT CHANGE WHEN HE TOOK A STEP BACKWARDS AND TURNED HIS RIGHT ANKLE ON GRAVEL. THE EE EXPERIENCED A SAME LEVEL FALL ONTO HI S RIGHT ANKLE CAUSING THE ANKLE FRACTURE.