75% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,495,469 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
1,637
inspections on record
118,482
inspection hours
9.8
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.
11,621 citations across 118,482 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.
$14.1M
proposed penalties
$10.7M
current assessed
$10.6M
paid to date
$101K
outstanding
11,325 assessments are final orders; 605 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-21.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Republic Energy, Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Investigation is still going on at this time. Per preliminary report: Descending the coal haul road, victim began to lose brakes. He attempted to straddle an axle berm on his left. The truck ran up onto the berm for approximately 100' before it turned over. Victim was found partly out of the passenger side door beneath the right exaust stack. Unable to remove him until EMS arrived.
Republic Energy, Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Truck out of control, driver not wearing seatbelt, ejected & crushed.
February 1, 2006WV · Coalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerFatality · IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST
Elk Run Coal Co. · Contact with hot objects or substances
EE was cropping the clarion level when for unknown reasons he traveled to the top of the ridge and inadvertently contacted a low pressure high volume 16 inch gas line.
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