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Coal mines in West Virginia: 390 open mines

MSHA lists 390 open coal mines in West Virginia, run by 146 operators and employing 12,255 people. Since January 1, 2022 its inspectors issued 67,257 citations and orders there with $62,480,831 in proposed penalties, and operators reported 3,203 injury or illness cases, 20 of them fatal. The operators with the most open mines are Rockwell Mining LLC; Ramaco Resources, LLC; Coal Mac Inc. Data from MSHA, November 6, 2026.

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Open mines

390

Operators

146

Employees

12,255

Active

178

NonProducing

123

Temporarily Idled

83

New Mine

6

Mines run by individuals, counted and not listed

8

Citations and orders since January 1, 2022

67,257

Significant and substantial

11,893 (17.7%)

Closure orders

1,185

High negligence or reckless

2,439

Proposed penalties

$62,480,831

Amount paid so far

$36,632,154

Inspections

16,333

Inspector hours on site

468,404

Citations per inspection

4.12 (all mines 2.30)

Accident reports

3,814

Injury and illness cases

3,203

Fatalities

20

Latest MSHA record

November 5, 2026

Operators with the most open mines in West Virginia

Ranked by open mines, then by citations. Sole proprietors and individuals are not listed.

Operators with the most citations in West Virginia

Citations and orders issued since January 1, 2022 at their open mines here.

Mines with the most citations

Open mines, ranked by citations and orders since January 1, 2022.

Main commodities

Citations and injury cases by year

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

Standards cited most at coal mines in West Virginia

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 coal mines in West Virginia

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

What the accident reports at coal mines in West Virginia describe

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

Equipment named in accident reports at coal mines in West Virginia

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