Data / Mines / West Virginia / Blue Knob Surface Mine
Blue Knob Surface Mine: 2 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Blue Knob Surface Mine is a temporarily idled coal (bituminous) surface mine in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, operated by South Fork Coal Co., LLC with 4 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 4609448). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 2 citations and orders there with $276 in proposed penalties, and 0 accident reports were filed there, with no injury or illness cases.
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- MSHA mine ID
- 4609448
- Status
- Temporarily Idled since November 7, 2024
- Main commodity
- Coal (bituminous)
- Mine type
- Surface
- County
- Greenbrier County, West Virginia
- Nearest town
- Richwood
- Operator
- South Fork Coal Co., LLC
- Parent company
- White Forest Resources, Inc
- Employees
- 4
- MSHA field office
- Summersville WV Field Office
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 2
- Significant and substantial
- 0 (0.0%)
- Closure orders
- 0
- High negligence or reckless
- 0
- Proposed penalties
- $276
- Amount paid so far
- $276
- Inspections
- 13
- Inspector hours on site
- 102
- Citations per inspection
- 0.15 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 0
- Injury and illness cases
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- October 5, 2026
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 | 1 | 0 | $133 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | $143 | 0 |
Standards cited most at Blue Knob Surface Mine
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 71.206 | Surface coal mines, health | 2 |
Other open mines in Greenbrier County, West Virginia
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountaineer Pocahontas No 1 Mine | Greenbrier Smokeless Coal Mining, LLC. | Greenbrier County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 53 | 131 |
| Clearco Prep & Loadout Facility | Clearco Processing Corporation | Greenbrier County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 40 |
| Greystone Quarry and Plant | R B S Inc | Greenbrier County, WV | Crushed, broken limestone | 14 | 25 |
| No. 1 Surface Mine | Princess Polly Anna Coal Inc | Greenbrier County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 2 | 16 |
| Lewisburg Plant | Appalachian Aggregates, LLC | Greenbrier County, WV | Crushed, broken limestone | 14 | 13 |
| Elevation Surface Mine | Aurevo Resources | Greenbrier County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 12 |
| Pollock Knob Surface Mine | Greenbrier Smokeless Coal Mining, LLC. | Greenbrier County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 22 | 10 |
| Mountaineer Pocahontas No 1 Prep Plant | Greenbrier Smokeless Coal Mining, LLC. | Greenbrier County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 5 | 6 |
| Auger No. 29 | Resource Management & Recovery LLC | Greenbrier County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 2 | 3 |
| Brown Creek Contour Mine | Greenbrier Smokeless Coal Mining, LLC. | Greenbrier County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 2 | 2 |
| Mountaineer Pocahontas No 1 Load-Out | Greenbrier Smokeless Coal Mining, LLC. | Greenbrier County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 4 | 1 |
| Laurel Creek Contour No. 1 Surface Mine | Aurevo Resources | Greenbrier County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 10 | 0 |
| No. 1 Surface Mine | Black Water, Inc | Greenbrier County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 4 | 0 |
| Sewell Valley #2 | Black Water, Inc | Greenbrier County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 3 | 0 |
| Hickory Patch Surface Mine | Greenbrier Smokeless Coal Mining, LLC. | Greenbrier County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 1 | 0 |
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.