Mining Incidents

Mine No. 2 Coal

Stiltner Mining Inc. · Underground
Controlled by Keith Stiltner
Norton, Wise County, VA  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4407418

Mine No. 2 has $23K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2025
Latest incident
Jan 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2022
131
citations
20
significant & substantial
$23,301
proposed penalties
$23,301
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2022
26
inspections on record
1,392
inspection hours
9.4
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.
131 citations across 1,392 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mine No. 2 has $23K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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.
$23K
proposed penalties
$23K
current assessed
$23K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
129 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-05.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Mine No. 2 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.32 mg/m3 (99% compliant) across 277 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.
0.32
dust avg (mg/m3)
3.62
dust max (mg/m3)
99%
within 1.5 mg/m3
277
samples
Most recent sample: 2025-04-18.
Silica (quartz)
9.9
silica avg (%)
21.7
silica max (%)
10
samples
Most recent sample: 2025-03-07.
Noise
0%
over PEL
19
samples
Most recent sample: 2025-03-04.
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 2,760 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,600 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 6,725 8 0 1189.6
2025 Q1 13,577 29 4 2136.0
2024 Q4 16,670 13 0 779.8
2024 Q3 15,834 14 1 884.2
2024 Q2 17,101 12 0 701.7
2024 Q1 10,675 19 7 1779.9
Show 8 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 10,759 11 5 1022.4
2023 Q3 977 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 0 1 0
2023 Q1 6,056 6 1 990.8
2022 Q4 6,005 18 2 2997.5
2022 Q3 2,509 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,108 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 453 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2025 · 2 incidents

January 29, 2025 VA · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Stiltner Mining Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

Roof fall 1st crosscut underground in the #2 entry extending 15' towards #1 and 60' inby 6-8' thick. Crushed intake stopping, belt infrastructure and high voltage cable. Roof contains hillseams, soft shell and water. Fall occurred after a hard freeze and thaw.

January 6, 2025 VA · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) POWERED HAULAGE
Stiltner Mining Inc. · Struck by powered moving object

Guiding scoop to load, bucket pushed concrete block and pinned employee's rt. foot. against belt. Trans. resulting in fracture and laceration. Mud and water on floor.

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The full compliance file on Mine No. 2

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.