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West Spring Energy Coal

West Spring Energy, LLC · Surface

Controlled by Reading Anthracite Co; West Spring Slope Holdings LLC

Locust Gap, Northumberland County, PA · Active

MSHA Mine ID: 3608489

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 4
Years on record: 2018–2025
Latest incident: Jun 2025

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2011

citations

significant & substantial

$8,637

proposed penalties

$8,486

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
2025 Q4	2,712	2	0	737.5
2025 Q3	4,903	0	0	0.0
2025 Q2	10,360	1	1	96.5
2025 Q1	11,078	0	0	0.0
2024 Q4	9,404	3	0	319.0
2024 Q3	10,775	0	0	0.0
2024 Q2	10,420	3	0	287.9
2024 Q1	9,259	0	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

4 on file

2025 · 1 incident

June 17, 2025 PA · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS

West Spring Energy, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Drill rig was tracking w/tower down when drill steels fell out of top of carousel. Employee was trying to put steels back in carousel using a truck crane and come -a long when a drill steel shifted pinching EE's hand and fingers between 2 drill steels.

2024 · 1 incident

October 10, 2024 PA · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

West Spring Energy, LLC · Fall from machine

Employee was exiting haul truck when lower wrung ladder broke and employee feel aprox. 3 feet to the ground.

2022 · 1 incident

June 8, 2022 PA · Coal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

West Spring Energy, LLC · Fall from machine

working on the DEMAG and dropped a socket. EE reached in between the machine to pick it up and slipped, falling about 2 feet onto the ground. Landing on EE's feet EE felt pain in both knees, more so the left.

2018 · 1 incident

March 21, 2018 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

West Spring Energy, LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was walking from mine office to EQ parking area when ee slipped & fell on Rt shoulder