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No. 4 Coal

Surface Minerals Company · Surface

Controlled by Metinvest B V

BREAKS, Buchanan County, VA · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4407116

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2005
Latest incident: Sep 2005

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2005

citations

significant & substantial

$7,757

proposed penalties

$7,697

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
2009 Q4	0	0	0
2009 Q1	0	0	0
2008 Q1	0	0	0
2007 Q3	9,986	0	0	0.0
2007 Q1	19,279	1	1	51.9
2006 Q4	17,980	12	8	667.4
2006 Q3	19,104	0	0	0.0
2006 Q2	12,399	11	9	887.2

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

2005 · 2 incidents

September 27, 2005 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE

Surface Minerals Company · Struck against a moving object

Employee was backing a loaded Cat.777 hauler when he backed onto a berm and the truck turned over into a dry pond.

May 2, 2005 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Surface Minerals Company · Fall from machine

Employee was exiting a dozer and tripped on the hand grip located on the tilt jack causing him to fall approximately three feet to the ground hitting on his back.