Mining Incidents

Big Creek Washer Coal

Controlled by Edward A Asbury
Cucumber, Mcdowell County, WV  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4607852

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2012
Latest incident
Jan 2012
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
93
citations
24
significant & substantial
$15,491
proposed penalties
$11,935
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 5,148 5 1 971.3
2025 Q3 5,586 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,472 4 2 1618.1
2025 Q1 5,615 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 5,110 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 5,726 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 5,476 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 6,176 1 0 161.9
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

2012 · 1 incident

January 4, 2012 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Baystar Coal Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

When shutting tailgate on truck, mashed middle finger on right hand