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Mine No. 5, Mingo County, West Virginia: 169 MSHA citations

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

Mine No. 5 is a temporarily idled coal (bituminous) underground mine in Mingo County, West Virginia, operated by S E L a H Corporation with 0 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 4609277). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 169 citations and orders there with $34,864 in proposed penalties, and 2 accident reports were filed there, with 2 injury or illness cases.

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MSHA mine ID

4609277

Status

Temporarily Idled since August 19, 2024

Main commodity

Coal (bituminous)

Mine type

Underground

County

Mingo County, West Virginia

Nearest town

Nolan

Operator

S E L a H Corporation

Employees

0

MSHA field office

Logan WV Field Office

Citations and orders since January 1, 2022

169

Significant and substantial

13 (7.7%)

Closure orders

0

High negligence or reckless

1

Proposed penalties

$34,864

Amount paid so far

$32,022

Inspections

21

Inspector hours on site

936

Citations per inspection

8.05 (all mines 2.30)

Accident reports

2

Injury and illness cases

2

Fatalities

0

Latest MSHA record

September 28, 2026

Citations issued to contractors here

15 ($2,256 proposed)

Citations and injury cases by year

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

Standards cited most at Mine No. 5

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 Mine No. 5

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

What the accident reports at Mine No. 5 describe

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

Equipment named in accident reports at Mine No. 5

Other open mines in Mingo 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.