Mining Incidents

Elevation Surface Mine Coal

Controlled by Bernard Brown
Richwood, Greenbrier County, WV  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 4609597

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2023
Latest incident
Jun 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2022
12
citations
1
significant & substantial
$2,020
proposed penalties
$961
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 Q2 25,263 2 0 79.2
2025 Q1 36,345 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 30,960 1 0 32.3
2024 Q2 0 1 0
2024 Q1 21,530 1 1 46.4
2023 Q4 35,452 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,024 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 24,353 2 0 82.1
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

2023 · 1 incident

June 20, 2023 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
South Fork Coal Co., LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was cleaning the pit floor when a rock fell from the highwall and came through the windshield of the Komatsu WA600 loader EE was operating. Rock struck EE's right leg causing bruises/contusions, glass in EE's eyes, small lacerations.