Mining Incidents

Feats Loadout Coal

Rum Creek Coal Sales · Facility
Holden, Logan County, WV  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4604669

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2001–2018
Latest incident
Jun 2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
155
citations
50
significant & substantial
$45,472
proposed penalties
$24,142
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 3,904 3 1 768.4
2025 Q1 5,153 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 4,863 1 0 205.6
2023 Q4 4,494 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 4,538 1 0 220.4
2023 Q1 4,686 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 5,398 2 1 370.5
2022 Q1 4,983 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

6 on file

2018 · 1 incident

June 20, 2018 WV · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Lexington Coal Company, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was changing oxygen sensor on company truck. When EE cut the clip off EE cut EE's right hand thumb with EE's knife requiring 3 stitches.

2013 · 1 incident

November 6, 2013 WV · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Alex Energy Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was moving a roller when his foot slipped causing him to jam his knee. The employee continued to work until he was taken off for a non-work related injury to his foot. While off work because of his foot he had surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his knee on February 12, 2014. He is still off recovering from his foot surgery. He is not off work because of his knee injury.

2011 · 1 incident

January 4, 2011 WV · Coal electrician, lineman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Alex Energy Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Member was using a pocket knife to cut a rubber fuel line for a backhoe. The knife went through the rubber faster than expected, cutting through his glove and cutting his right thumb.

2003 · 1 incident

January 30, 2003 WV · Coal FIRE
Alex Energy Inc · Accident type, without injuries

THE RD 800 SERIES MACK TANDEM WAS TRAVELING FROMTHE HIGH WALL MINER PIT TO PREPARATION PLANT DUMPSITE. THE DRIVER STATED THAT HE HEARD A POP NOISE UNER THE HOOD, HE THEN STOPPED TO CHECK THE T RUCK, TRUCK WAS ON FIRE UNDER THE HOOD,FLAMES WERE COMING THROUGH THE DASH FIREWALL AREA. SAFETYCREW WAS CALLED AND FIRE WAS CONTAINED:PROBABLE CAUSE:LINE BLOWN SPRAYING OIL IN TURBO.

2002 · 1 incident

January 2, 2002 WV · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Alex Energy Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WAS INSTALLING 480 VOLT SERVICES FOR LOADOUT, EE STEPPED DOWN OFF TRUCK & SPRAINED KNEE.

2001 · 1 incident

December 29, 2001 WV · Coal welder (shop) SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Alex Energy Inc · Fall onto or against objects

EE WAS WORKING 4'-5' OFF THE BOTTOM OF THE TRUCKBIN WELDING AR PLATE ON THE SIDE WHILE STANDING ON A SCAFFOLD BOARD. THE BOTTOM OF THE BIN WAS CLOSED. THE SCAFFOLD BOARD SLIPPED BACKWARDS WHIL E HE WAS SHIFTING HIS WEIGHT TO WELD A PLATE IN THE CORNER. HE FELL THE 4' CATCHING HIS SHOULDERON THE ANGLE HOLDING THE BOARD AFTER LOSING HIS BALANCE.