Mining Incidents

TOM BAILEY BRANCH SURFACE MINE Coal

ED COAL, INC. · Surface
Controlled by Everett Gordon Justice
Glen Fork, Wyoming County, WV  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4609609

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2024–2026
Latest incident
Mar 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2023
43
citations
3
significant & substantial
$11,154
proposed penalties
$10,852
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 14,644 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 13,337 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 18,359 8 0 435.8
2025 Q1 17,291 11 1 636.2
2024 Q4 19,861 3 0 151.0
2024 Q3 20,542 11 1 535.5
2024 Q2 19,035 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 14,149 6 0 424.1
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

2026 · 1 incident

March 23, 2026 WV · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Ed Coal, Inc. · Fall from machine

Employee fell while dismounting Caterpillar D11 Bulldozer.

2025 · 1 incident

December 4, 2025 WV · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Ed Coal, Inc. · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was climbing up on a 360 Excavator to grease it and lost EE's balance, falling backwards hitting EE's back on the boom jack of the excavator

2024 · 2 incidents

September 27, 2024 WV · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Ed Coal, Inc. · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was shoveling track on a dozer and stepped into a hole and fell. Employee stated EE did not see hole.

April 4, 2024 WV · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Ed Coal, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was putting drill steel on drill up on mask. EE slipped and drill steel rolled over on EE's leg and pinched it on the mask of the drill.