Data / Mines / West Virginia / Bishop Surface
Bishop Surface: 12 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Bishop Surface is an active coal (bituminous) surface mine in Fayette County, West Virginia, operated by Nicholas Contura LLC with 20 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 4607491). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 12 citations and orders there with $3,572 in proposed penalties, and 4 accident reports were filed there, with 4 injury or illness cases.
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- MSHA mine ID
- 4607491
- Status
- Active since October 8, 2021
- Main commodity
- Coal (bituminous)
- Mine type
- Surface
- County
- Fayette County, West Virginia
- Nearest town
- Pax
- Operator
- Nicholas Contura LLC
- Parent company
- Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc
- Employees
- 20
- MSHA field office
- Beckley Field Office
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 12
- Significant and substantial
- 2 (16.7%)
- Closure orders
- 0
- High negligence or reckless
- 1
- Proposed penalties
- $3,572
- Amount paid so far
- $3,572
- Inspections
- 18
- Inspector hours on site
- 586
- Citations per inspection
- 0.67 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 4
- Injury and illness cases
- 4
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- August 26, 2026
- Citations issued to contractors here
- 2 ($294 proposed)
Citations and injury cases by year
Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.
| Year | Citations and orders | Significant and substantial | Proposed penalties | Injury and illness cases |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | $266 | 0 |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | $895 | 1 |
| 2024 | 6 | 2 | $2,260 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | $151 | 2 |
Standards cited most at Bishop Surface
Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.
| Standard | What the part covers | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 30 CFR 77.1606 | Surface coal mines, safety | 6 |
| 30 CFR 77.1607 | Surface coal mines, safety | 2 |
| 30 CFR 77.404 | Surface coal mines, safety | 2 |
| 30 CFR 77.1000 | Surface coal mines, safety | 1 |
| 30 CFR 77.502-2 | Surface coal mines, safety | 1 |
Injury and illness cases at Bishop Surface
Accident reports by degree of injury, as the operator reported them to MSHA.
| Degree | Cases |
|---|---|
| Days away from work or restricted activity | 4 |
What the accident reports at Bishop Surface describe
Accident classification, as MSHA codes the circumstances that contributed most directly.
| Classification | Reports |
|---|---|
| Handling of materials | 2 |
| Slip or fall of person | 2 |
Equipment named in accident reports at Bishop Surface
| Equipment | Reports |
|---|---|
| Trucks | 1 |
| Ore haulage trucks - off highway trucks | 1 |
| Front-end loader | 1 |
Other open mines in Fayette County, West Virginia
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maple Eagle No. 1 Mine | Panther Creek Mining LLC | Fayette County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 56 | 2,062 |
| Kingston No. 2 | Kingston Mining Inc. | Fayette County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 128 | 736 |
| Deepwater Surface Mine | Coal-Mac Met, LLC | Fayette County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 100 | 105 |
| Sycamore Surface Mine | Panther Creek Mining LLC | Fayette County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 10 | 96 |
| Eagle Energy Mine No.1 | Coal-Mac Met, LLC | Fayette County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 54 | 82 |
| Maple Eagle Preparation Plant | Panther Creek Mining LLC | Fayette County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 17 | 69 |
| Deep Water Prep Plant P-2 | Coal-Mac Met, LLC | Fayette County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 29 | 66 |
| Republic Energy | Republic Energy LLC | Fayette County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 130 | 62 |
| Kingston Sewell | Kingston Mining Inc. | Fayette County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 64 | 51 |
| Kingston Processing | Kingston Mining Inc. | Fayette County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 37 | 50 |
| Maple Eagle East Deep Mine | Panther Creek Mining LLC | Fayette County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 43 | 41 |
| SHM-14 | Coal-Mac Met, LLC | Fayette County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 1 | 20 |
| SHM-45 | Coal-Mac Met, LLC | Fayette County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 4 | 15 |
| Glenco Load-Out | Coal-Mac Met, LLC | Fayette County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 4 | 14 |
| CHM 23, Unit 4, & Unit 21 | Contract Highwall Mining LLC | Fayette County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 9 | 8 |
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.