Mining Incidents

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Mountain Fuels Inc. · Surface
Vansant, Buchanan County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4407412

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2022
Latest incident
Dec 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2022
12
citations
4
significant & substantial
$1,780
proposed penalties
$1,780
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 Q1 2,988 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 7,245 1 0 138.0
2023 Q3 6,671 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 7,639 2 0 261.8
2023 Q1 6,766 1 0 147.8
2022 Q4 7,000 5 2 714.3
2022 Q3 7,963 3 2 376.7
2022 Q2 4,355 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

2022 · 1 incident

December 13, 2022 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Mountain Fuels Inc. · Struck against a moving object

Employee lost control of Broce Broom ran thru a ditch and overturned, the employee was taken to the ER where EE was examined and found EE had bruised ribs was later released and a return to work was issued by the Doctor for 12-19-22