Mining Incidents

Triad No. 2 Deep Mine Coal

Ramaco Resources, LLC · Underground
Controlled by Ramaco Resources Inc
Berwind, WV, Mcdowell County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4609628

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2023–2024
Latest incident
Apr 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2022
200
citations
39
significant & substantial
$138,609
proposed penalties
$117,901
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
2024 Q2 540 1 0 1851.9
2024 Q1 19,869 28 7 1409.2
2023 Q4 15,276 29 2 1898.4
2023 Q3 23,463 36 5 1534.3
2023 Q2 28,456 47 11 1651.7
2023 Q1 24,845 40 8 1610.0
2022 Q4 23,894 19 6 795.2
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

2024 · 2 incidents

April 3, 2024 WV · Coal electrician, lineman ELECTRICAL
Ramaco Resources, LLC · Flash burns (electric)

The employee was in the process of resetting the feeder breaker and a phase-to-phase event occurred within the circuit breaker resulting in burns to the employees' hands/arms and left leg.

April 3, 2024 WV · Coal electrician, lineman ELECTRICAL
Ramaco Resources, LLC · Flash burns (electric)

The electrician was in the process of resetting the feeder breaker and a phase-to-phase event occurred within the circuit breaker and the employee was close to the power center resulting in a flash burn to the right arm.

2023 · 1 incident

July 20, 2023 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Ramaco Resources, LLC · Struck by falling object

EE was installing roof bolts in the #8 heading when a piece of rock approximately measuring 8in x 10in round and 2in to 3in thick gave loose, striking EE on the left index finger resulting in a laceration.