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Hess Creek Surface Mine Coal

Knox Creek Coal Corporation · Surface

Controlled by Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.

Raven, VA, Russell County, VA · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4407244

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2008
Latest incident: Nov 2008

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2008

citations

significant & substantial

$20,006

proposed penalties

$19,466

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
2010 Q2	0	0	0
2010 Q1	8,934	1	1	111.9

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

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2008 · 1 incident

November 10, 2008 VA · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Knox Creek Coal Corporation · Struck by falling object

Employee was standing behind the miner head waiting as two members moved the cover onto the shear jack. The new members did not see his hand and dropped the cover on his hand.