Mining Incidents

Chestnut Land Holdings, LLC operator

Controlled by James C Justice III
MSHA operator ID: 0118409
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
12
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2012–2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2011
442
citations
124
significant & substantial
$394,606
proposed penalties
$137,969
paid to date
35% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $256,636 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
134
inspections on record
4,447
inspection hours
9.9
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.
442 citations across 4,447 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$395K
proposed penalties
$348K
current assessed
$138K
paid to date
$210K
outstanding
386 assessments are final orders; 34 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-06.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2025
1
2017
1 (1f)
2014
1
2013
7
2012
2

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
February 27, 2017 WV · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Chestnut Land Holdings, LLC · Fall from ladders

Employee was last observed as employee began to ascend an extension ladder. There is no eye witness, it is apparent the employee fell approximately 20ft. onto a moving conveyor belt and was fatally injured.

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