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Pocahontas HWM 52 Coal

Pocahontas Coal Company, LLC · Surface

Controlled by Metinvest B V

Rhodell, Raleigh County, WV · NonProducing

MSHA Mine ID: 4609531

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2017–2018
Latest incident: Feb 2018

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2017

citations

significant & substantial

$257,770

proposed penalties

$72,219

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 Q2	6,452	0	0	0.0
2024 Q2	5,243	0	0	0.0
2023 Q3	13,501	0	0	0.0
2023 Q2	12,807	0	0	0.0
2023 Q1	5,186	0	0	0.0
2022 Q4	3,954	0	0	0.0
2022 Q3	5,210	8	3	1535.5

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded

February 21, 2018 WV · Coal driller, highwall operator, highwall drill operator Fatality · ELECTRICAL

Bundy Auger Mining, Inc · Contact with electrical current

Employee was electrocuted by transformer power.

Reportable incidents

1 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2017 · 1 incident

August 22, 2017 WV · Coal driller, highwall operator, highwall drill operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Bundy Auger Mining, Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee caught employee's hand in the cab door of the highwall miner as employee entered the cab resulting in cutting the end of employee's right thumb