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Caretta Impoundment/Refuse Areas: 32 MSHA citations

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

Caretta Impoundment/Refuse Areas is an active coal (bituminous) processing facility in Mcdowell County, West Virginia, operated by West Virginia Properties, Inc. with 35 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 4602437). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 32 citations and orders there with $4,803 in proposed penalties, and 1 accident report was filed there, with 1 injury or illness case.

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MSHA mine ID

4602437

Status

Active since April 24, 2023

Main commodity

Coal (bituminous)

Mine type

Facility

County

Mcdowell County, West Virginia

Nearest town

Caretta

Operator

West Virginia Properties, Inc.

Employees

35

MSHA field office

Logan WV Field Office

Citations and orders since January 1, 2022

32

Significant and substantial

1 (3.1%)

Closure orders

1

High negligence or reckless

6

Proposed penalties

$4,803

Amount paid so far

$4,199

Inspections

26

Inspector hours on site

430

Citations per inspection

1.23 (all mines 2.30)

Accident reports

1

Injury and illness cases

1

Fatalities

0

Latest MSHA record

September 29, 2026

Citations issued to contractors here

8 ($0 proposed)

Citations and injury cases by year

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

Standards cited most at Caretta Impoundment/Refuse Areas

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 Caretta Impoundment/Refuse Areas

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

What the accident reports at Caretta Impoundment/Refuse Areas describe

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

Equipment named in accident reports at Caretta Impoundment/Refuse Areas

Other open mines in Mcdowell County, West 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.