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Big Creek Surface: 15 MSHA citations

Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.

Big Creek Surface is an active coal (bituminous) surface mine in Tazewell County, Virginia, operated by Ramaco Resources Land Holdings, LLC with 35 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 4407162). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 15 citations and orders there with $4,786 in proposed penalties, and 9 accident reports were filed there, with 9 injury or illness cases.

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MSHA mine ID

4407162

Status

Active since June 21, 2021

Main commodity

Coal (bituminous)

Mine type

Surface

County

Tazewell County, Virginia

Nearest town

Richlands

Operator

Ramaco Resources Land Holdings, LLC

Parent company

Ramaco Resources Inc

Employees

35

MSHA field office

Vansant VA Field Office

Citations and orders since January 1, 2022

15

Significant and substantial

3 (20.0%)

Closure orders

1

High negligence or reckless

0

Proposed penalties

$4,786

Amount paid so far

$3,422

Inspections

15

Inspector hours on site

780

Citations per inspection

1.00 (all mines 2.30)

Accident reports

9

Injury and illness cases

9

Fatalities

0

Latest MSHA record

September 14, 2026

Citations issued to contractors here

12 ($2,015 proposed)

Citations and injury cases by year

Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.

Standards cited most at Big Creek Surface

Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.

Injury and illness cases at Big Creek Surface

Accident reports by degree of injury, as the operator reported them to MSHA.

What the accident reports at Big Creek Surface describe

Accident classification, as MSHA codes the circumstances that contributed most directly.

Equipment named in accident reports at Big Creek Surface

Other open mines in Tazewell County, Virginia

US government work, public domain. Counts come from the MSHA files published on November 6, 2026. An open mine is one MSHA lists as Active, Intermittent, New Mine, Temporarily Idled or NonProducing; 13,673 were open that day. Citations, penalties, inspections and accident reports run from January 1, 2022. A citation is an inspector's allegation and an operator can contest it; the penalty is the amount MSHA first proposed, before any contest or settlement. An operator is the legal entity MSHA assesses, and a parent company is its controller. Mines run by sole proprietors or by individuals are counted in every total and are not named. This page uses MSHA data and is not endorsed or certified by MSHA. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.