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Buckeye Br. Coal

Surface Minerals Company · Surface

Controlled by Metinvest B V

Big Rock, Buchanan County, VA · Temporarily Idled

MSHA Mine ID: 4407038

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 4
Years on record: 2002–2011
Latest incident: Jun 2011

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2001

citations

significant & substantial

$1,762

proposed penalties

$1,762

paid to date

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA

Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	S&S	Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1	0	0	0
2023 Q3	0	0	0
2023 Q2	0	0	0
2022 Q2	0	0	0
2022 Q1	0	0	0
2021 Q4	0	0	0
2021 Q2	0	0	0
2020 Q3	0	0	0

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2011 · 1 incident

June 9, 2011 VA · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Surface Minerals Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Changing a wrench hydraulic unit out on a drill. The new unit was bolted up and when he stepped to the ground his stomach started hurting. He was diagnosed with a hernia that required surgery.

2002 · 3 incidents

July 3, 2002 VA · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Surface Minerals Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS ADJUSTING THE CUTTING CHAIN ON A HIGH WALL MINER HEAD AND WHEN HE HIT A PIN WITH A HAMMER A PIECE OF METAL CAME OFF OF THE HAMMER AND HIT HIM ON THE RIGHT ARM.

May 22, 2002 VA · Coal truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Surface Minerals Company · Struck by falling object

I WAS WAITING FOR THE TRUCK TO GET LOADED AND WHEN IT WAS I STEPPED OUTSIDE THE DOOR TO PUSH UP THE TARP WHEN I DID THE RAIL OF THE TARP KNOCKED OFF A ROCK A LUMP OF COAL OFF THE TOP OF THE TR UCK ONTO MY HEAD.

April 3, 2002 VA · Coal electrician, lineman MACHINERY

Surface Minerals Company · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A PIECE OF METAL WITH A SET OF TORCHES AND A PIECE OF RUST POPPED AND WENT INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.