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Affinity Preparation Plant: 32 MSHA citations

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

Affinity Preparation Plant is an active coal (bituminous) processing facility in Raleigh County, West Virginia, operated by Pocahontas Coal Company with 27 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 4608879). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 32 citations and orders there with $11,038 in proposed penalties, and 3 accident reports were filed there, with 3 injury or illness cases.

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MSHA mine ID

4608879

Status

Active since February 1, 2016

Main commodity

Coal (bituminous)

Mine type

Facility

County

Raleigh County, West Virginia

Nearest town

Sophia

Operator

Pocahontas Coal Company

Employees

27

MSHA field office

Beckley Field Office

Citations and orders since January 1, 2022

32

Significant and substantial

4 (12.5%)

Closure orders

0

High negligence or reckless

4

Proposed penalties

$11,038

Amount paid so far

$11,038

Inspections

77

Inspector hours on site

1,111

Citations per inspection

0.42 (all mines 2.30)

Accident reports

3

Injury and illness cases

3

Fatalities

0

Latest MSHA record

October 20, 2026

Citations issued to contractors here

28 ($4,920 proposed)

Citations and injury cases by year

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

Standards cited most at Affinity Preparation Plant

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 Affinity Preparation Plant

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

What the accident reports at Affinity Preparation Plant describe

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

Equipment named in accident reports at Affinity Preparation Plant

Other open mines in Raleigh 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.