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Surface Minerals Company: 12 open mines, 110 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Surface Minerals Company (MSHA operator ID P24715) operates 12 open mines with 2 employees in Virginia, mostly coal (bituminous). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued it 110 citations and orders with $35,638 in proposed penalties, and it reported 3 injury or illness cases. Data from MSHA, November 6, 2026.
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- MSHA operator ID
- P24715
- Open mines
- 12
- Employees at open mines
- 2
- States
- Virginia
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 110
- Significant and substantial
- 10 (9.1%)
- Closure orders
- 2
- High negligence or reckless
- 3
- Proposed penalties
- $35,638
- Amount paid so far
- $35,638
- Inspections
- 89
- Inspector hours on site
- 1,610
- Citations per inspection
- 1.24 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 3
- Injury and illness cases
- 3
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- November 5, 2026
Open mines of Surface Minerals Company
Ranked by citations since January 1, 2022.
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elk Creek Surface | Surface Minerals Company | Buchanan County, VA | Coal (bituminous) | 1 | 63 |
| Airport Surface | Surface Minerals Company | Buchanan County, VA | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 23 |
| Surface Mine No. 1 | Surface Minerals Company | Buchanan County, VA | Coal (bituminous) | 1 | 21 |
| Huffman Fk. | Surface Minerals Company | Buchanan County, VA | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 3 |
| Buckeye Br. | Surface Minerals Company | Buchanan County, VA | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 0 |
| Convict Hollow | Surface Minerals Company | Buchanan County, VA | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 0 |
| Jones Fork | Surface Minerals Company | Buchanan County, VA | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 0 |
| Hackney | Surface Minerals Company | Buchanan County, VA | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 0 |
| Mule Hollow Surface Mine | Surface Minerals Company | Buchanan County, VA | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 0 |
| Starr Br. | Surface Minerals Company | Buchanan County, VA | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 0 |
| Convict East Surface | Surface Minerals Company | Buchanan County, VA | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 0 |
| 3 Pole | Surface Minerals Company | Buchanan County, VA | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 0 |
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 | 25 | 3 | $5,226 | 1 |
| 2023 | 18 | 3 | $11,339 | 1 |
| 2024 | 33 | 3 | $5,945 | 1 |
| 2025 | 33 | 1 | $12,977 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | $151 | 0 |
Standards cited most at Surface Minerals 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 77.1606 | Surface coal mines, safety | 43 |
| 30 CFR 77.1605 | Surface coal mines, safety | 17 |
| 30 CFR 77.1104 | Surface coal mines, safety | 12 |
| 30 CFR 77.1007 | Surface coal mines, safety | 5 |
| 30 CFR 77.1110 | Surface coal mines, safety | 5 |
| 30 CFR 77.404 | Surface coal mines, safety | 4 |
| 30 CFR 41.12 | Notice of legal identity | 2 |
| 30 CFR 48.23 | Training of miners | 2 |
| 30 CFR 77.512 | Surface coal mines, safety | 2 |
| 30 CFR 77.513 | Surface coal mines, safety | 2 |
| 30 CFR 77.410 | Surface coal mines, safety | 2 |
| 30 CFR 71.206 | Surface coal mines, health | 2 |
| 30 CFR 77.205 | Surface coal mines, safety | 2 |
| 30 CFR 77.400 | Surface coal mines, safety | 2 |
| 30 CFR 77.506 | Surface coal mines, safety | 1 |
Injury and illness cases at Surface Minerals Company
Accident reports by degree of injury, as the operator reported them to MSHA.
| Degree | Cases |
|---|---|
| Permanent disability | 1 |
| Days away from work or restricted activity | 2 |
What the accident reports at Surface Minerals Company describe
Accident classification, as MSHA codes the circumstances that contributed most directly.
| Classification | Reports |
|---|---|
| Handling of materials | 1 |
| Machinery | 1 |
| Other | 1 |
Equipment named in accident reports at Surface Minerals Company
| Equipment | Reports |
|---|---|
| Bulldozer | 1 |
| Hand tools (powered) | 1 |
| Carriage-mounted drills | 1 |
Commodities
| Main commodity | Open mines |
|---|---|
| Coal (bituminous) | 12 |
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.