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Elk Run Coal Company, LLC operator

Controlled by Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc

MSHA operator ID: P11051

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Fatalities: 3
Total incidents: 1192
Mines on record: 19
Years on record: 2000–2026

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

11,621

citations

3,864

significant & substantial

$14,074,589

proposed penalties

$10,579,840

paid to date

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Top causes

POWERED HAULAGE 2 fatalities · 83 non-fatal
IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST 1 fatality
FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 253 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 217 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 129 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 97 non-fatal

Incident timeline

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100 (1f)

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65 (1f)

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Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

3 recorded

December 4, 2010 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE

Republic Energy, Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Investigation is still going on at this time. Per preliminary report: Descending the coal haul road, victim began to lose brakes. He attempted to straddle an axle berm on his left. The truck ran up onto the berm for approximately 100' before it turned over. Victim was found partly out of the passenger side door beneath the right exaust stack. Unable to remove him until EMS arrived.

February 6, 2009 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE

Republic Energy, Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Truck out of control, driver not wearing seatbelt, ejected & crushed.

February 1, 2006 WV · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer Fatality · IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST

Elk Run Coal Co. · Contact with hot objects or substances

EE was cropping the clarion level when for unknown reasons he traveled to the top of the ridge and inadvertently contacted a low pressure high volume 16 inch gas line.