Data / Mines / West Virginia / Belcher Branch

Belcher Branch: 1,466 MSHA citations

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

Belcher Branch is an active coal (bituminous) underground mine in Wyoming County, West Virginia, operated by Frontier Coal Company, Inc. with 11 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 4609474). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 1,466 citations and orders there with $5,110,816 in proposed penalties, and 28 accident reports were filed there, with 22 injury or illness cases.

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MSHA mine ID

4609474

Status

Active since October 6, 2026

Main commodity

Coal (bituminous)

Mine type

Underground

County

Wyoming County, West Virginia

Nearest town

Pineville

Operator

Frontier Coal Company, Inc.

Employees

11

MSHA field office

Beckley Field Office

Citations and orders since January 1, 2022

1,466

Significant and substantial

380 (25.9%)

Closure orders

109

High negligence or reckless

127

Proposed penalties

$5,110,816

Amount paid so far

$368,990

Inspections

169

Inspector hours on site

3,736

Citations per inspection

8.67 (all mines 2.30)

Accident reports

28

Injury and illness cases

22

Fatalities

0

Latest MSHA record

November 4, 2026

Citations issued to contractors here

29 ($6,665 proposed)

Citations and injury cases by year

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

Standards cited most at Belcher Branch

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 Belcher Branch

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

What the accident reports at Belcher Branch describe

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

Equipment named in accident reports at Belcher Branch

Other open mines in Wyoming 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.