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Rhino Eastern LLC operator

Controlled by Patriot Coal Corporation; Rhino Resource Partners LP

MSHA operator ID: 0090665

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 85
Mines on record: 4
Years on record: 2008–2014

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2008

1,245

citations

349

significant & substantial

$2,250,825

proposed penalties

$1,510,214

paid to date

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Top causes

FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL 1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 20 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 16 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 14 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 10 non-fatal
POWERED HAULAGE 9 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2014

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2011

20 (1f)

2010

2009

2008

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded

June 27, 2011 WV · Coal bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss Fatality · FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL

Rhino Eastern LLC · Struck by falling object

Victim was cleaning rocks and coal to set timbers along a rib line. The rib and brow fell crushing the miner. The brow measured approximately 100" long by 32" thick, by 37" tall.