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Road Fork #52 Mine: 2,803 MSHA citations

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

Road Fork #52 Mine is an active coal (bituminous) underground mine in Wyoming County, West Virginia, operated by Spartan Mining Company with 350 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 4609522). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 2,803 citations and orders there with $3,541,662 in proposed penalties, and 103 accident reports were filed there, with 93 injury or illness cases.

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MSHA mine ID

4609522

Status

Active since July 6, 2020

Main commodity

Coal (bituminous)

Mine type

Underground

County

Wyoming County, West Virginia

Nearest town

Pineville

Operator

Spartan Mining Company

Parent company

Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc

Employees

350

MSHA field office

Logan WV Field Office

Citations and orders since January 1, 2022

2,803

Significant and substantial

547 (19.5%)

Closure orders

12

High negligence or reckless

52

Proposed penalties

$3,541,662

Amount paid so far

$2,672,856

Inspections

488

Inspector hours on site

12,408

Citations per inspection

5.74 (all mines 2.30)

Accident reports

103

Injury and illness cases

93

Fatalities

0

Latest MSHA record

November 4, 2026

Citations issued to contractors here

2 ($266 proposed)

Citations and injury cases by year

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

Standards cited most at Road Fork #52 Mine

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 Road Fork #52 Mine

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

What the accident reports at Road Fork #52 Mine describe

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

Equipment named in accident reports at Road Fork #52 Mine

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.