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Airport Mine 1 Coal

J.W. Construction Company, Inc. · Surface

Controlled by Jerry W Wharton

Wise, Wise County, VA · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4407384

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2019
Latest incident: Jun 2019

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2018

citations

significant & substantial

$1,642

proposed penalties

$1,136

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
2023 Q1	0	0
2022 Q3	1,743	0	0.0
2022 Q2	1,290	0	0.0
2022 Q1	1,711	0	0.0
2021 Q4	1,358	0	0.0
2020 Q4	3,949	0	0.0
2019 Q4	19,822	0	0.0
2019 Q2	20,161	1	49.6

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

2019 · 1 incident

June 27, 2019 VA · Coal FIRE

J.W. Construction Company, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

D8T Cat dozer was on fire when day shift foreman arrived on job, approx. 4:46 AM. Dozer was parked at time of fire. No 3rd shift at our mines. Local Fire Dept was called out.