Mining Incidents

White Forest Resources, Inc controller

MSHA controller ID: 0133023

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
36
Mines on record
10
Years on record
2016–2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2016
491
citations
163
significant & substantial
$182,895
proposed penalties
$123,678
paid to date
68% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $59,217 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
321
inspections on record
13,478
inspection hours
3.6
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
491 citations across 13,478 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$183K
proposed penalties
$144K
current assessed
$124K
paid to date
$21K
outstanding
483 assessments are final orders; 9 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-05.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2024
2
2023
4
2022
2
2021
3
2020
2
2019
9 (1f)
2018
5
2017
4
2016
5

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
March 7, 2019 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · MACHINERY
South Fork Coal Co., LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Victim was assisting with extracting the highwall miner cars. EE had been shoveling dirt/mud off the deck of the miner. EE was standing at the rear of the deck while a car was being extracted and for unknown reason head came forward and was caught between the car and a support post. Suffered crushing injuries to the head.

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