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Pocahontas Coal Company: 6 open mines, 1,009 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Pocahontas Coal Company (MSHA operator ID 0118488) operates 6 open mines with 289 employees in West Virginia, mostly coal (bituminous). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued it 1,009 citations and orders with $422,010 in proposed penalties, and it reported 67 injury or illness cases, 1 of them fatal. Data from MSHA, November 6, 2026.
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- MSHA operator ID
- 0118488
- Open mines
- 6
- Employees at open mines
- 289
- States
- West Virginia
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 1,009
- Significant and substantial
- 103 (10.2%)
- Closure orders
- 10
- High negligence or reckless
- 39
- Proposed penalties
- $422,010
- Amount paid so far
- $297,761
- Inspections
- 411
- Inspector hours on site
- 13,238
- Citations per inspection
- 2.45 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 99
- Injury and illness cases
- 67
- Fatalities
- 1
- Latest MSHA record
- November 3, 2026
Open mines of Pocahontas Coal Company
Ranked by citations since January 1, 2022.
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Affinity Mine | Pocahontas Coal Company | Raleigh County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 256 | 905 |
| Wyco Surface Mine | Pocahontas Coal Company | Wyoming County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 3 | 62 |
| Affinity Preparation Plant | Pocahontas Coal Company | Raleigh County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 27 | 32 |
| SHM #53 Miner | Pocahontas Coal Company | Raleigh County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 3 | 9 |
| Willibet Surface Mine | Pocahontas Coal Company | Raleigh County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 4 |
| Pocahontas HWM 52 | Pocahontas Coal Company | Raleigh County, WV | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 1 |
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 | 181 | 21 | $56,180 | 17 |
| 2023 | 213 | 15 | $101,754 | 12 |
| 2024 | 139 | 14 | $83,692 | 13 |
| 2025 | 237 | 20 | $81,986 | 13 |
| 2026 | 239 | 33 | $98,398 | 12 |
Standards cited most at Pocahontas Coal Company
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 75.370 | Underground coal mines, safety | 110 |
| 30 CFR 75.400 | Underground coal mines, safety | 79 |
| 30 CFR 75.202 | Underground coal mines, safety | 71 |
| 30 CFR 75.403 | Underground coal mines, safety | 63 |
| 30 CFR 75.1403 | Underground coal mines, safety | 46 |
| 30 CFR 75.503 | Underground coal mines, safety | 45 |
| 30 CFR 75.512 | Underground coal mines, safety | 42 |
| 30 CFR 75.220 | Underground coal mines, safety | 39 |
| 30 CFR 77.1606 | Surface coal mines, safety | 35 |
| 30 CFR 75.1731 | Underground coal mines, safety | 34 |
| 30 CFR 75.517 | Underground coal mines, safety | 27 |
| 30 CFR 72.630 | Part 72 | 21 |
| 30 CFR 75.604 | Underground coal mines, safety | 18 |
| 30 CFR 75.380 | Underground coal mines, safety | 18 |
| 30 CFR 75.333 | Underground coal mines, safety | 17 |
Injury and illness cases at Pocahontas Coal Company
Accident reports by degree of injury, as the operator reported them to MSHA.
| Degree | Cases |
|---|---|
| Fatality | 1 |
| Permanent disability | 2 |
| Days away from work or restricted activity | 23 |
| No lost time, or an occupational illness | 41 |
What the accident reports at Pocahontas Coal Company describe
Accident classification, as MSHA codes the circumstances that contributed most directly.
| Classification | Reports |
|---|---|
| Hoisting | 25 |
| Machinery | 16 |
| Dust disease of lungs | 14 |
| Fall of roof or back | 12 |
| Handtools (nonpowered) | 9 |
| Powered haulage | 6 |
| Handling of materials | 5 |
| Disorders (repeated trauma) | 4 |
| Slip or fall of person | 3 |
| Other | 2 |
Equipment named in accident reports at Pocahontas Coal Company
| Equipment | Reports |
|---|---|
| Elevator | 26 |
| Rock or roof bolting machine | 18 |
| Hand tools (not powered) | 9 |
| Hand tools (powered) | 4 |
| Load-haul-dump | 3 |
| Shuttle car | 3 |
| Continuous miner | 3 |
| Ore haulage trucks - on highway trucks | 1 |
| Crane | 1 |
| Front-end loader | 1 |
Commodities
| Main commodity | Open mines |
|---|---|
| Coal (bituminous) | 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.