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Double Camp No. 1 Coal

Controlled by James C Justice III
Coal Mountain, Wyoming County, WV  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 4609227

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
11
Years on record
2008–2017
Latest incident
Apr 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
553
citations
96
significant & substantial
$244,491
proposed penalties
$146,312
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
2024 Q2 0 1 0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 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

11 on file

2017 · 2 incidents

April 5, 2017 WV · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Was putting cable behind anchor. The shuttle car lost power. Went and put power back in, and the stop, start switch was stuck and the cable started taking up and hit employee on the back of the legs and flipped employee. Employee landed on left wrist and head bounced off the bottom of the mine floor.

January 13, 2017 WV · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

Area inby fan house had 2 mud seams come together with freezing and thawing weather. Area 3 ft. x 9 ft. x4.5 ft. thick raveled out and fell. Did not block air way or travel ways.

2016 · 1 incident

November 23, 2016 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) OTHER
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Was walking to scoop and felt pain in lower back

2012 · 1 incident

September 17, 2012 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) POWERED HAULAGE
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was un-hanging the bolter cable in the No. 6 cross-cut when a shuttle car caught the cable and jerked it from the hangers. The cable struck the employee and caused him to fall striking his right hip on the mine floor.

2011 · 1 incident

July 21, 2011 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Struck by falling object

Employee stated that while drilling the mine roof to install a roof bolt, the drill steel fell out and struck him on the hand.

2010 · 1 incident

2009 · 1 incident

May 30, 2009 WV · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee was pushing a roof bolt in the hole when he felt pain in his lower back.

2008 · 4 incidents

December 23, 2008 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee stated that while taking down curtain, he twisted the wrong way and hurt his back.

September 15, 2008 WV · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Struck by powered moving object

EE was making a spice on a shuttle car cable, when the scoop operator trammed the scoop around the corner and struck the EE. The EE was knocked over by the scoop.

February 10, 2008 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) OTHER
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Struck by flying object

EE was welding on the side of a canopy near #5 entry when a gust of wind blew the canopy over striking the employee.

February 10, 2008 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) OTHER
Frontier Coal Company, Inc. · Struck by flying object

EE was welding on the side of a canopy near #5 entry when a gust of wind blew the canopy over causing the canopy to strike the EE.