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Ned's Branch Surface Mine Coal

Gilbert, Mingo County, WV  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4609616

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2022–2024
Latest incident
Sep 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2022
127
citations
42
significant & substantial
$59,510
proposed penalties
$30,749
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 12,351 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 12,606 5 0 396.6
2025 Q2 12,712 2 0 157.3
2024 Q4 13,726 27 10 1967.1
2024 Q3 24,990 20 8 800.3
2024 Q1 41,632 11 2 264.2
2023 Q4 40,526 6 4 148.1
2023 Q2 37,569 11 2 292.8
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

2024 · 1 incident

September 11, 2024 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Reflectance Energy LLC · Struck against a moving object

Operator was driving 785 rock truck and was dumping out a large rock, the rock shifted while dumping causing the truck to jar the truck.

2022 · 1 incident

August 23, 2022 WV · Coal FIRE
Reflectance Energy LLC · Accident type, without injuries

Excavator was feeding a burn pile on a clearing operation and got to close to pile igniting the rear of the excavator machine was a total loss no persons injured.