Mining Incidents

Bull Creek Prep & Refuse Disp Facility Coal

Ashford, Boone County, WV  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4608940

Bull Creek Prep & Refuse Disp Facility has $138K in proposed MSHA penalties and $75K outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
2009–2018
Latest incident
Jun 2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
342
citations
155
significant & substantial
$137,791
proposed penalties
$62,446
paid to date
45% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $75,345 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
91
inspections on record
3,545
inspection hours
9.6
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.
342 citations across 3,545 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Bull Creek Prep & Refuse Disp Facility has $138K in proposed MSHA penalties and $75K outstanding across 4 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.
$138K
proposed penalties
$137K
current assessed
$62K
paid to date
$75K
outstanding
338 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-22.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Bull Creek Prep & Refuse Disp Facility shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.20 mg/m3 (99% compliant) across 264 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.
0.20
dust avg (mg/m3)
5.55
dust max (mg/m3)
99%
within 1.5 mg/m3
264
samples
Most recent sample: 2026-06-25.
Silica (quartz)
3.4
silica avg (%)
7.2
silica max (%)
11
samples
Most recent sample: 2025-06-13.
Noise
0%
over PEL
93
samples
Most recent sample: 2025-10-14.
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 5,021 14 2 2788.3
2025 Q3 4,563 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,806 20 7 5254.9
2025 Q1 5,856 1 1 170.8
2024 Q4 2,365 22 8 9302.3
2024 Q3 1,880 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,591 18 8 6947.1
2024 Q1 517 0 0 0.0
Show 81 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 5,821 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 5,938 1 1 168.4
2023 Q2 5,955 23 12 3862.3
2023 Q1 5,584 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 5,115 6 2 1173.0
2022 Q3 5,856 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 6,289 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 5,795 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 5,307 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 6,909 3 2 434.2
2021 Q2 5,934 11 4 1853.7
2021 Q1 5,133 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,485 10 2 2869.4
2020 Q3 1,182 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,078 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,234 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 4,476 18 7 4021.4
2019 Q3 5,499 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 6,503 12 8 1845.3
2019 Q1 6,872 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 6,522 8 5 1226.6
2018 Q3 6,435 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 7,265 7 1 963.5
2018 Q1 6,362 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 4,966 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,913 36 15 18818.6
2017 Q2 6,567 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 6,038 8 5 1324.9
2016 Q4 5,350 8 6 1495.3
2016 Q3 4,776 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 3,493 6 0 1717.7
2016 Q1 5,898 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 6,104 7 1 1146.8
2015 Q3 5,382 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 6,491 12 9 1848.7
2015 Q1 7,444 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 7,858 4 2 509.0
2014 Q3 8,882 5 2 562.9
2014 Q2 9,056 5 4 552.1
2014 Q1 5,407 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 48 1 0 20833.3
2013 Q3 592 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 960 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 488 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,416 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 3,360 4 2 1190.5
2012 Q1 6,756 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 4,326 4 3 924.6
2011 Q3 4,240 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 3,478 2 0 575.0
2011 Q1 3,552 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 3,624 7 5 1931.6
2010 Q3 4,315 5 3 1158.7
2010 Q2 7,529 3 2 398.5
2010 Q1 4,738 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 4,297 2 0 465.4
2009 Q3 4,648 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 5,185 6 2 1157.2
2009 Q1 6,685 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 5,939 8 6 1347.0
2008 Q3 5,416 2 2 369.3
2008 Q2 4,875 4 2 820.5
2008 Q1 6,642 1 0 150.6
2007 Q4 4,137 1 1 241.7
2007 Q3 3,462 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,637 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 5,301 8 4 1509.1
2006 Q4 3,902 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 4,315 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 4,268 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 3,590 8 4 2228.4
2005 Q4 4,030 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 3,807 7 3 1838.7
2005 Q2 3,095 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 4,522 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 3,745 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 2,924 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 2,907 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,549 1 0 645.6
2003 Q4 0 2 1
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

7 on file

2018 · 1 incident

June 20, 2018 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Raven Crest Contracting, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Driver was attempting to raise the hood on coal truck. As driver was lifting hood from left side it caught on something. When it suddenly stopped driver had immediate pain to left shoulder.

2017 · 1 incident

July 11, 2017 WV · Coal FIRE
Raven Crest Contracting, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

MSHA inspector discovered a small fire in the berm beside a coal stockpile. The high sulfur coal in the berm has spontaneously ignited due to an increase in the ambient temperature. Burning material was spread, watered, and compacted to extinguish fire. The adjoining stockpile was watered and spread out to eliminate some build up of heat.

2014 · 1 incident

January 17, 2014 WV · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Raven Crest Contracting, LLC · Struck by flying object

A piece of slag being chipped from a recently welded piece of metal went into employee's left eye. Medical treatment was received requiring prescription eye drops there is no lost time with this accident.

2013 · 1 incident

November 1, 2013 WV · Coal miner, prospector, nec HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Raven Crest Contracting, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Hit hand with hammer between the thumb and index finger on left hand while hand was placed on pipe. Requiring stitches between left thumb and index finger on left hand. Employee returned to work next scheduled work day. No lost time

2011 · 1 incident

September 30, 2011 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Raven Crest Contracting, LLC · Struck against a moving object

The operator ran the loader off the right side of the road onto the bank and turned over in middle of the road.

2010 · 1 incident

July 20, 2010 WV · Coal electrician, lineman MACHINERY
Raven Crest Contracting, LLC · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Location: Auto Coal Sampler at the crusher plant. Checking secondary sweep on sampler. Had his hand in the secondary, secondary made a sweep and pinned arm and hand in the belt.

2009 · 1 incident

March 23, 2009 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Raven Crest Contracting, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

While cleaning up maintenance yard, Injury lifted a piece of metal and felt pain in his groin area. No medical treatment or missed time. It was reported as an incident only. However, it appears that a hernia has resulted in this strain and he just sought medical treatment on 10/3/09.

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The full compliance file on Bull Creek Prep & Refuse Disp Facility

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.