Mining Incidents

Cool Ridge Mine No 2 Coal

Newport Trading Company Inc · Surface
Controlled by Boblett James W
Cool Ridge, Raleigh County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4607692

MSHA record for Cool Ridge Mine No 2 (mine ID 4607692). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Ownership history
  1. Newport Trading Company Inc 1989 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Cool Ridge Mine No 2 sits in Raleigh County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 4.0% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Raleigh County, West Virginia · Population 73,666
4.0%
Mining share of county employment
$52,055
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.