Mining Incidents

Quinwood No. 1 Deep Mine Coal

Controlled by Corbin Robertson III
Leivasy, Nicholas County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4609599

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2021–2022
Latest incident
Oct 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
115
citations
6
significant & substantial
$27,215
proposed penalties
$20,980
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
2023 Q4 0 2 0
2023 Q3 7,188 21 1 2921.5
2023 Q2 11,308 13 1 1149.6
2023 Q1 0 12 0
2022 Q4 16,145 17 0 1053.0
2022 Q3 0 10 2
2022 Q2 2,719 20 1 7355.6
2022 Q1 2,341 15 0 6407.5
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

2022 · 2 incidents

October 25, 2022 WV · Coal bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss MACHINERY
Quinwood Coal Company, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Had motor hoisted to top of building. Had to pick motor up and swing to line bolt holes up. When we swung the motor the bar that the chain hoist was hooked to slid out of the bracket allowing pump motor to fall. EE's hand was caught between the pump motor and pump causing EE's hand to damaged.

August 26, 2022 WV · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Quinwood Coal Company, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE was hanging miner cable on the section with 2 other EE's when EE felt a pain in EE's right arm. Later in the shift EE's fingers on EE's right hand started becoming numb. EE was using proper lifting techniques and had PPE on. The cable had tension prior to lifting.

2021 · 1 incident

November 5, 2021 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
JCS Holding Company, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Placed hand on boom arms and got caught between boom and canopy post