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Chess Processing: 55 MSHA citations

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

Chess Processing is a nonproducing coal (bituminous) processing facility in Boone County, West Virginia, operated by Elk Run Coal Company, LLC with 12 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 4606188). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 55 citations and orders there with $14,628 in proposed penalties, and 2 accident reports were filed there, with 1 injury or illness case.

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MSHA mine ID

4606188

Status

NonProducing since December 16, 2024

Main commodity

Coal (bituminous)

Mine type

Facility

County

Boone County, West Virginia

Nearest town

Sylvester

Operator

Elk Run Coal Company, LLC

Parent company

Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc

Employees

12

MSHA field office

Madison WV Field Office

Citations and orders since January 1, 2022

55

Significant and substantial

22 (40.0%)

Closure orders

0

High negligence or reckless

1

Proposed penalties

$14,628

Amount paid so far

$13,049

Inspections

29

Inspector hours on site

470

Citations per inspection

1.90 (all mines 2.30)

Accident reports

2

Injury and illness cases

1

Fatalities

0

Latest MSHA record

September 1, 2026

Citations issued to contractors here

1 ($165 proposed)

Citations and injury cases by year

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

Standards cited most at Chess Processing

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 Chess Processing

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

What the accident reports at Chess Processing describe

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

Equipment named in accident reports at Chess Processing

Other open mines in Boone 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.