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Stonega Strip #10 Coal

J W Construction Company Inc · Surface

Controlled by Jerry W Wharton

Appalachia, Wise County, VA · Temporarily Idled

MSHA Mine ID: 4407256

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 3
Years on record: 2011–2024
Latest incident: Sep 2024

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2010

citations

significant & substantial

$1,038,451

proposed penalties

$428,137

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
2025 Q2	931	0	0	0.0
2025 Q1	3,316	0	0	0.0
2024 Q2	6,039	0	0	0.0
2024 Q1	425	0	0	0.0
2013 Q3	0	0	0
2012 Q1	515	1	0	1941.7
2011 Q3	19,219	0	0	0.0
2011 Q2	18,521	6	2	324.0

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

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded

December 7, 2011 VA · Coal coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler Fatality · FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL

Fairbanks Coal Company Inc · Struck by falling object

Excavator was working in Redwine pit, highwall collapsed causing rock to fall on excavator. This caused a fatal injury to operator.

Reportable incidents

2 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2024 · 1 incident

September 30, 2024 VA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL

J W Construction Company Inc · Struck by falling object

992K Cat loader - loading shot material into 777F Rock Trucks in coal pit. Employee going into pit to get a bucket of shot material. Right side of highwall fell and struck front of loader and front cab area.

2011 · 1 incident

August 2, 2011 VA · Coal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Fairbanks Coal Company Inc · Struck by flying object

Employee was removing a loader tooth, he struck tooth and a small piece of metal came off of the tooth and lodged under the skin of the left knee.