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Jones Fork Coal

Surface Minerals Company · Surface

Controlled by Metinvest B V

Big Rock, Buchanan County, VA · Temporarily Idled

MSHA Mine ID: 4407126

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2006–2009
Latest incident: Sep 2009

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2005

citations

significant & substantial

$20,971

proposed penalties

$19,548

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
2017 Q4	0	0	0
2017 Q3	0	0	0
2017 Q2	0	0	0
2016 Q4	0	0	0
2016 Q1	0	0	0
2015 Q4	0	0	0
2015 Q2	0	0	0
2014 Q4	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

2 on file

2009 · 1 incident

September 2, 2009 VA · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE

Surface Minerals Company · Struck against a moving object

This is filed for the ltd. purpose of abating C. #8165978. The engine died on EE's truck, EE stepped out, he got back in and tried to start the engine and said the truck rolled off and went over the hill and the cab turned over. **EE was terminated 9/4/09 while still on restricted duty per Inspector**

2006 · 1 incident

January 3, 2006 VA · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS

White Oak Tetons, LLC. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was repairing a 735 Articulated Truck. He was getting out from underneath the machine, holding the remote to the crane. As he was pulling himself up, his hand slipped causing the remote to strike him in the right front tooth. Tooth broke.