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Elevation Surface Mine Coal

Aurevo Resources, Inc. · Surface

Controlled by Bernard Brown

Richwood, Greenbrier County, WV · Temporarily Idled

MSHA Mine ID: 4609597

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2023
Latest incident: Jun 2023

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2022

citations

significant & substantial

$2,020

proposed penalties

$961

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 Q2	25,783	2	0	77.6
2025 Q1	36,345	0	0	0.0
2024 Q4	9,606	0	0	0.0
2024 Q3	30,960	1	0	32.3
2024 Q2	10,835	1	0	92.3
2024 Q1	21,530	1	1	46.4
2023 Q4	35,452	0	0	0.0
2023 Q3	29,684	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

2023 · 1 incident

June 20, 2023 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE

South Fork Coal Co., LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was cleaning the pit floor when a rock fell from the highwall and came through the windshield of the Komatsu WA600 loader EE was operating. Rock struck EE's right leg causing bruises/contusions, glass in EE's eyes, small lacerations.