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Slip Ridge Contour Coal

Marfork Coal Company · Surface

Controlled by Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc

Whitesville, Raleigh County, WV · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4609376

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 3
Years on record: 2010–2012
Latest incident: Jul 2012

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2010

citations

significant & substantial

$8,808

proposed penalties

$8,808

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
2017 Q2	0	0	0
2016 Q3	0	0	0
2016 Q2	0	0	0
2016 Q1	0	0	0
2015 Q3	0	0	0
2011 Q3	12,585	1	1	79.5
2011 Q1	6,927	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

3 on file

2012 · 1 incident

July 10, 2012 WV · Coal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler OTHER

Marfork Coal Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee went to maintain a PC2000 Excavator fuel and lube. It was noticed he had not came back for lunch. Foreman went to the site to check on him and found him lying face down on the deck of the machine unresponsive.

2011 · 1 incident

June 15, 2011 WV · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Marfork Coal Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE LIFTING SHIELD OF THE HIGHWALL MINER THE SHIELD SLIPPED AND CUT EMPLOYEE MIDDLE FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND

2010 · 1 incident

November 30, 2010 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE

Unknown operator · Struck against a moving object

Employee was trying to turn around a lizard truck in a confined location on the bench while loaded with earthen material and hit a berm causing member to suffer from whip lash.