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Tipple #1 Coal

Hills Coal Co., Inc. · Facility

Controlled by Horace Garrison Hill

Applachia, Wise County, VA · Active

MSHA Mine ID: 4403472

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2009
Latest incident: Apr 2009

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2002

477

citations

204

significant & substantial

$217,147

proposed penalties

$168,775

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	2,544	4	3	1572.3
2025 Q3	2,467	0	0	0.0
2025 Q2	2,423	0	0	0.0
2025 Q1	2,341	0	0	0.0
2024 Q4	2,427	1	0	412.0
2024 Q3	2,440	0	0	0.0
2024 Q2	2,370	0	0	0.0
2024 Q1	2,288	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

1 on file

2009 · 1 incident

April 15, 2009 VA · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY

Hills Coal Co., Inc. · Struck by powered moving object

EE prepared to lift the radial sucker belt for repairs to be made on legs of stacker. When he started lifting stacker the turn table on the crane that sat on the international truck sheared the bolts and the crane hit injured as it broke away.