Mining Incidents

North Fork Surface Mine Coal

Controlled by Coronado Coal LLC
Man, Logan County, WV  ·  NonProducing
MSHA Mine ID: 4609560

North Fork Surface Mine has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $588 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
26
citations
5
significant & substantial
$4,931
proposed penalties
$4,261
paid to date
86% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $670 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
19
inspections on record
271
inspection hours
n/a
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.
Rate withheld: 271 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

North Fork Surface Mine has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $588 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$588
outstanding
26 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-04-24.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at North Fork Surface Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.10 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 15 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.
0.10
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.22
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
15
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-10-09.
Silica (quartz)
24.8
silica avg (%)
34.1
silica max (%)
3
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-08-15.
Noise
0%
over PEL
3
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-08-08.
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 2 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 90 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 38 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,375 0 0 0.0
Show 21 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,511 2 0 1323.6
2023 Q3 1,416 4 2 2824.9
2023 Q2 1,567 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 494 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,450 4 0 2758.6
2022 Q1 659 12 2 18209.4
2021 Q4 523 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q2 540 1 0 1851.9
2019 Q1 604 1 1 1655.6
2018 Q4 630 0 0 0.0

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.

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The full compliance file on North Fork Surface Mine

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.