Data / Mines / West Virginia / Briar Mountain Surface Mine
Briar Mountain Surface Mine: 0 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Briar Mountain Surface Mine is a temporarily idled coal (bituminous) surface mine in Kanawha County, West Virginia, operated by Ed Coal, Inc. with 2 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 4609285). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 0 citations and orders there with $0 in proposed penalties, and 0 accident reports were filed there, with no injury or illness cases.
The request: Watch Briar Mountain Surface Mine (MSHA mine ID 4609285) in Kanawha County, West Virginia: each new citation and each accident report. $10 of work on sign-up, no card.
SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. It reads the mine, citation, inspection and accident files that MSHA publishes, and this page is that reading. Ask for the mines of a commodity, state or operator with the operator's headquarters, website and size added from the web, and new mines, new citations and new accident reports arrive in your sheet, CRM, Slack or agent as MSHA posts them.
- MSHA mine ID
- 4609285
- Status
- Temporarily Idled since March 6, 2018
- Main commodity
- Coal (bituminous)
- Mine type
- Surface
- County
- Kanawha County, West Virginia
- Nearest town
- Eskdale
- Operator
- Ed Coal, Inc.
- Employees
- 2
- MSHA field office
- Mt. Carbon WV Field Office
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 0
- Inspections
- 10
- Inspector hours on site
- 4
- Citations per inspection
- 0.00 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 0
- Injury and illness cases
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- September 14, 2026
Other open mines in Kanawha County, West Virginia
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speed Mine | Panther Creek Mining LLC | Kanawha County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 112 | 2,055 |
| Blue Creek No. 1 Ug Mine | Blue Creek Mining, LLC | Kanawha County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 108 | 709 |
| Samples Surface Mine | Panther Creek Mining LLC | Kanawha County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 108 | 254 |
| Coalburg Tunnel Mine | Kanawha Eagle Mining, LLC | Kanawha County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 8 | 237 |
| Winchester 2 | Panther Creek Mining LLC | Kanawha County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 67 | 210 |
| Coal Clean Prep Plant | Panther Creek Mining LLC | Kanawha County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 39 | 131 |
| Toms Fork Prep Plant and Loadout | Panther Creek Mining LLC | Kanawha County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 11 | 131 |
| South Hollow Prep Plant and Loadout | Kanawha Eagle Mining, LLC | Kanawha County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 60 | 125 |
| Witcher Creek Surface Mine | Silver Horse Services, LLC | Kanawha County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 31 | 62 |
| Little Creek Dock | Taishan Coal LLC | Kanawha County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 2 | 37 |
| Mammoth Coal Processing Pl & Riv Tipple | Spartan Mining Company | Kanawha County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 29 | 32 |
| Coon Hollow Tunnel Mine | Panther Creek Mining LLC | Kanawha County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 3 | 26 |
| River Point Dock | River Point LLC | Kanawha County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 4 | 13 |
| Blue Creek Prep Plant | Blue Creek Mining, LLC | Kanawha County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 21 | 7 |
| Samples Mine Highwall Miner | Panther Creek Mining LLC | Kanawha County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 12 | 6 |
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.