Mining Incidents

Mine No. 2 Coal

Stiltner Mining Inc. · Underground
Controlled by Keith Stiltner
Norton, Wise County, VA  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4407418

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2025
Latest incident
Jan 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2022
131
citations
20
significant & substantial
$23,301
proposed penalties
$23,301
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 2,760 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,600 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 6,725 8 0 1189.6
2025 Q1 13,577 29 4 2136.0
2024 Q4 16,670 13 0 779.8
2024 Q3 15,834 14 1 884.2
2024 Q2 17,101 12 0 701.7
2024 Q1 10,675 19 7 1779.9
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2025 · 2 incidents

January 29, 2025 VA · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Stiltner Mining Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

Roof fall 1st crosscut underground in the #2 entry extending 15' towards #1 and 60' inby 6-8' thick. Crushed intake stopping, belt infrastructure and high voltage cable. Roof contains hillseams, soft shell and water. Fall occurred after a hard freeze and thaw.

January 6, 2025 VA · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) POWERED HAULAGE
Stiltner Mining Inc. · Struck by powered moving object

Guiding scoop to load, bucket pushed concrete block and pinned employee's rt. foot. against belt. Trans. resulting in fracture and laceration. Mud and water on floor.