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Airport Surface Coal

Surface Minerals Company · Surface

Controlled by Metinvest B V

Vansant, Buchanan County, VA · NonProducing

MSHA Mine ID: 4407400

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2023
Latest incident: Mar 2023

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2020

citations

significant & substantial

$24,840

proposed penalties

$22,730

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 Q4	0	0	0
2025 Q1	0	0	0
2024 Q4	0	1	0
2024 Q2	0	1	0
2024 Q1	0	0	0
2023 Q3	5,638	0	0	0.0
2023 Q2	4,069	5	1	1228.8
2022 Q3	33,572	0	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

1 on file

2023 · 1 incident

March 29, 2023 VA · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Surface Minerals Company · Struck by falling object

A mechanic was attempting to install an equalizer bar on a dozer. While positioning the bar, the belly pan fell catching EE's left hand between the belly pan and the bar. This resulted on the loss of the left ring finger.