Drowning
A water inundation occurred on the No. 1 Section in the No. 1 Face near spad 1717. Resulted in a Fatal injury. Rescue crews located the fatally injured person on 11/13/2025.
Nicholas Contura LLCOperator
Controlled by Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc
MSHA Operator ID: 0146435
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 97
- Mines on record
- 3
- Years on record
- 2016–2026
Safety benchmark
Recorded fatalities relative to other operators with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 739 operators with at least one recorded fatality.
More recorded fatalities than 0% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
This operator
1
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Southern MN Construction2fatal95 total
- Allegheny Metallurgical, LLC1fatal97 total
- PBS Coals, Inc.1fatal98 total
- Compass Minerals Louisiana Inc.1fatal95 total
- Nicholas-Contura, LLCthis operator1fatal97 total
Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA operators with at least one recorded fatality. Industry mean is the average across that same population. Peers are sampled by closest total-incident count, regardless of fatality outcome.
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Top causes
- INUNDATION1 fatality
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS24 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON14 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)13 non-fatal
- MACHINERY10 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK10 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
2
2025
17 (1f)
2024
12
2023
10
2022
13
2021
6
2020
13
2019
13
2018
6
2017
3
2016
2