Mining Incidents

Sewell Mine R Coal

Controlled by Edward A Asbury
War, Mcdowell County, WV  ·  NonProducing
MSHA Mine ID: 4609455

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2017–2020
Latest incident
Feb 2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2013
666
citations
115
significant & substantial
$245,152
proposed penalties
$162,152
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 8,027 15 5 1868.7
2025 Q3 1,332 16 4 12012.0
2025 Q2 5,531 1 1 180.8
2025 Q1 8,257 3 0 363.3
2024 Q4 10,041 12 2 1195.1
2024 Q2 10,047 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 9,227 12 1 1300.5
2023 Q1 10,577 24 5 2269.1
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2020 · 1 incident

February 13, 2020 WV · Coal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Raw Coal Mining Company, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was preparing to make a belt splice and while cutting the belt with a knife, EE slipped allowing the knife to cut EE's thumb.

2017 · 1 incident

May 15, 2017 WV · Coal bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss POWERED HAULAGE
Raw Coal Mining Company, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

Employee was operating a scoop and ran over a rock. This caused the employee to be jarred inside the operating deck of the scoop.