Mining Incidents

Airport Surface Coal

Controlled by Metinvest B V
Vansant, Buchanan County, VA  ·  NonProducing
MSHA Mine ID: 4407400

Airport Surface has $25K in proposed MSHA penalties and $522 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2023
Latest incident
Mar 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2020
73
citations
11
significant & substantial
$24,840
proposed penalties
$22,730
paid to date
92% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,110 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
16
inspections on record
1,204
inspection hours
6.1
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
73 citations across 1,204 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Airport Surface has $25K in proposed MSHA penalties and $522 outstanding across 1 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$25K
proposed penalties
$23K
current assessed
$23K
paid to date
$522
outstanding
73 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-10-09.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Airport Surface shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.09 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 156 samples.

Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Respirable coal dust
Respirable coal dust and silica figures cover coal facilities. Dust compliance is measured against the current 1.5 mg/m3 standard; samples predating the 2014 standard are included, so compliance rates are a coarse historical signal.
0.09
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.55
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
156
samples
Most recent sample: 2025-02-26.
Silica (quartz)
12.1
silica avg (%)
26.9
silica max (%)
6
samples
Most recent sample: 2024-11-08.
Noise
0%
over PEL
50
samples
Most recent sample: 2024-10-31.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 0 0 0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 1 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 0 1 0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
Show 15 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 3,357 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 5,638 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 4,069 5 1 1228.8
2023 Q1 20,418 1 0 49.0
2022 Q4 27,028 5 1 185.0
2022 Q3 33,572 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 37,401 20 4 534.7
2022 Q1 44,522 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 40,409 19 1 470.2
2021 Q3 41,965 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 45,907 4 1 87.1
2021 Q1 45,164 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 40,499 2 0 49.4
2020 Q3 43,455 4 1 92.0
2020 Q2 27,497 6 2 218.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2023 · 1 incident

March 29, 2023 VA · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Surface Minerals Company · Struck by falling object

A mechanic was attempting to install an equalizer bar on a dozer. While positioning the bar, the belly pan fell catching EE's left hand between the belly pan and the bar. This resulted on the loss of the left ring finger.

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The full compliance file on Airport Surface

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.