MINE DETAILS

BLACK EAGLE

ActiveUndergroundCoal (Bituminous)

MSHA MINE ID4609550

OPERATORMARFORK COAL COMPANY, LLC

CONTROLLERAlpha Metallurgical Resources Inc

LOCATIONRaleigh, WV

PUBLIC RECORD23,395 linked rows

LOCATION

Mine location

1 of 1 mine with usable MSHA coordinates. Select a marker to open a mine.

Mine coordinates

BLACK EAGLE37.95694, -81.53972Open map ↗

Quarterly trends

2025 Q1 – 2026 Q4

JSON CSV

Database snapshot · 2026-10-13. MSHA quarterly production and employment reports.

Coal production

1,064,992

reported short tons

2025 Q1199,122
2025 Q2194,512
2025 Q3170,424
2025 Q4194,750
2026 Q1144,970
2026 Q2161,214
2026 Q3—No usable value reported
2026 Q4 *—No usable value reported

Hours worked

748,417

reported employee hours

2025 Q1137,004
2025 Q2134,714
2025 Q3138,819
2025 Q4136,207
2026 Q1117,480
2026 Q284,193
2026 Q3—No usable value reported
2026 Q4 *—No usable value reported

Tons per hour

1.42

production ÷ hours worked

2025 Q11.45
2025 Q21.44
2025 Q31.23
2025 Q41.43
2026 Q11.23
2026 Q21.91
2026 Q3—No usable value reported
2026 Q4 *—No usable value reported

Missing values appear as —. Totals use available reports. Tons per hour requires production and hours for the same quarters and a nonzero hours total. * Striped bars mark partial mine coverage or an incomplete quarter. See the table for coverage.

Quarterly data and reporting coverage

Quarterly production, employment and reporting coverage for BLACK EAGLE
Quarter	Coal (short tons)	Hours worked	Tons / hour	Avg. employees	Coverage
2025 Q1	199,122	137,004	1.45	216	1/1 mines reporting
2025 Q2	194,512	134,714	1.44	217	1/1 mines reporting
2025 Q3	170,424	138,819	1.23	233	1/1 mines reporting
2025 Q4	194,750	136,207	1.43	236	1/1 mines reporting
2026 Q1	144,970	117,480	1.23	192	1/1 mines reporting
2026 Q2	161,214	84,193	1.91	138	1/1 mines reporting
2026 Q3	—	—	—	—	No report
2026 Q4	—	—	—	—	No report

Safety and enforcement

2025-01-01 – 2026-10-13

Violations

532

100 significant & substantial (S&S)

2025 Q1140
2025 Q266
2025 Q380
2025 Q490
2026 Q168
2026 Q243
2026 Q332
2026 Q4 *13

Accident records

1 records classified as fatality

2025 Q14
2025 Q22
2025 Q35
2025 Q42
2026 Q10
2026 Q20
2026 Q32
2026 Q4 *0

Proposed penalties · USD

1,111,339.00

511 of 532 violations with amounts

2025 Q1208,579
2025 Q2493,609
2025 Q3254,367
2025 Q448,308
2026 Q157,934
2026 Q230,786
2026 Q317,756
2026 Q4 *—

On-site inspection hours

4,319.75

116 inspections · 116 with hours

2025 Q1768.75
2025 Q2660.25
2025 Q3721.75
2025 Q4608.25
2026 Q1657.25
2026 Q2377.25
2026 Q3484.50
2026 Q4 *41.75

Counts are published records, including contractor records. * The quarter was incomplete at the snapshot date; recent counts may rise as reports arrive. — means no reported amount or hours. Portfolio totals use current membership.

Quarterly safety data

Quarter	Violations	S&S	Proposed USD	Accident records	Fatality records	Inspections	On-site hours
2025-Q1	140	29	208,579.00	4	1	12	768.8
2025-Q2	66	22	493,609.00	2	0	18	660.3
2025-Q3	80	24	254,367.00	5	0	23	721.8
2025-Q4	90	7	48,308.00	2	0	16	608.3
2026-Q1	68	8	57,934.00	0	0	14	657.3
2026-Q2	43	5	30,786.00	0	0	12	377.3
2026-Q3	32	3	17,756.00	2	0	19	484.5
2026-Q4 *	13	2	—	0	0	2	41.8

Most cited CFR sections

All violations issued in the selected period. Counts combine subsections.

Section	Violations	S&S
30 CFR 75.202Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.	63	41
30 CFR 75.400Accumulation of combustible materials.	57	1
30 CFR 75.370Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.	41	6
30 CFR 75.220Roof control plan.	35	3
30 CFR 75.512Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.	30	3
30 CFR 75.503Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.	25	0
30 CFR 75.1731Maintenance of belt conveyors and belt conveyor entries.	22	1
30 CFR 75.604Permanent splicing of trailing cables.	19	2
30 CFR 75.333Ventilation controls.	17	0
30 CFR 75.403Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.	16	0

Safety activity

inspection2026-10-08F020DD0
103(i) Spot Inspections · 5.8 on-site hours
violation2026-10-075180131
75.370(a)(1)
violation2026-10-075022755
75.517 · S&S
violation2026-10-075022754
75.1403
violation2026-10-065022753
75.403
violation2026-10-055183646
75.604(b)
violation2026-10-055180127
75.604(b) · S&S
violation2026-10-055180126
75.370(a)(1)
violation2026-10-055180125
75.523-3(c)(2)
violation2026-10-055180124
75.370(a)(1)
violation2026-10-055180123
75.400
inspection2026-10-01F00952E
Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 36.0 on-site hours
violation2026-10-015180122
75.370(a)(1)
violation2026-10-015180121
75.370(a)(1)
violation2026-10-015180120
75.360(g)
inspection2026-09-30F03FD96
103(i) Spot Inspections · 6.0 on-site hours
inspection2026-09-23F0307C5
Electrical Technical Investigation · 8.5 on-site hours
inspection2026-09-23F03FD95
103(i) Spot Inspections · 6.0 on-site hours
accident2026-09-15220262600026
HANDLING OF MATERIALS · NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
Accident narrative
Employee slipped and fell with a crib block in their hand resulting in smashing their left ring finger between the crib block and front of the section feeder.
inspection2026-09-14F007CE7
Verbal Hazard Complaint Inspections · 4.0 on-site hours
inspection2026-09-10F00739D
103(i) Spot Inspections · 7.0 on-site hours
violation2026-09-105029701
75.202(a)
violation2026-09-085028610
75.1731(a)
violation2026-09-085028609
75.370(a)(1)
inspection2026-09-02F03FD91
103(i) Spot Inspections · 5.0 on-site hours

Safety sources and definitions

MSHA Violations (issue date), Accidents (accident date), and Inspections (begin date). Snapshot 2026-10-13.

Counts describe published rows, including contractor records; accident records are not distinct incidents or numbers of people injured.

Zero means no matching records in the imported sources, not proof of no events. Historical coverage differs by source; absence before a source begins reporting is not a zero incident rate. Invalid or absent dates and records after the snapshot are excluded.

S&S means SIG_SUB=Y. Fatality records use DEGREE_INJURY_CD=01. Proposed penalties are not final assessed or paid amounts; missing dollar values are omitted.

Inspection hours are SUM_TOTAL_ON_SITE_HOURS attributed to the inspection start date, without supervisor/trainee hours. Missing hours are omitted; a started inspection may still be open.

Portfolio totals use current mine membership, including events before the current owner or operator's tenure.

CFR headings link to the current Title 30 index; they are not historical legal determinations.

EIA-923 · COAL RECEIPTS

Coal shipments and quality

Receipts reported by power plants and terminals, matched by MSHA mine ID.

REPORTED RECEIPTS · SHORT TONS—0 rows · 0 receiving plants

HEAT CONTENT · BTU/LB—Weighted by reported tons

SULFUR / ASH · % BY WEIGHT— / —Separate averages over measured receipts

DELIVERED COST · USD/TON—No price coverage

No receipts matched this mine in the selected period. EIA-923 does not cover all mine sales, exports or metallurgical coal shipments.

Delivered cost includes transport and is not mine revenue. Missing prices remain blank. * Fewer than three months are published in the selected quarter. Receipts reflect the months EIA has published; an unfinished quarter is not comparable with a full quarter. Portfolio matches use current ownership.

Coverage, sources and calculations

Reported coal receipts at EIA-923 power plants/terminals; this is not a census of mine shipments, exports or metallurgical sales.
Matches use only the published MSHA ID, normalized to seven digits. Unidentified mine origins remain in the source table but are not assigned to a mine.
Portfolio attribution uses current MSHA ownership, not ownership at the shipment date. Receipts and production can differ because of timing, stocks and coverage.
Quality means are weighted by positive reported tons with that measurement. Delivered cost uses only rows with published cost, positive heat and positive tons; missing/withheld costs are never zero-filled.
USD/ton = (cents/MMBtu ÷ 100) × MMBtu/ton. This is plant delivered cost, not mine sales price or revenue.
Receipt month is as published, including records supplied by annual respondents. Recent months are preliminary and subject to revision. Missing rows do not prove zero shipments.

Imported releases start 2008-01. This window includes 12 published months. EIA releases · Survey instructions

2026 · preliminary · EIA923_Schedules_2_3_4_5_M_07_2026_21SEP2026.xlsx · Page 5 Fuel Receipts and Costs
2025 · final · EIA923_Schedules_2_3_4_5_M_12_2025_Final.xlsx · Page 5 Fuel Receipts and Costs

EIA ANNUAL COAL REPORT · 2024

Coal prices and estimated revenue

Annual county prices and a production-based allocation of county coal sales.

FOB PRICE BENCHMARK · USD/TON145.53Published county average

ESTIMATED SALES · SHORT TONS1,010,135Allocated from published county sales

ESTIMATED COAL REVENUE · USD147,004,938Covered mines only · not reported revenue

ANNUAL PRODUCTION COVERED100.0%1 of 1 producing annual mine records

The estimate assumes each eligible mine receives its county-average price and shares county sales in proportion to production. Actual sales and prices can differ substantially. All producing annual records in this selection have estimates. Annual price data uses a separate window from the MSHA charts.

Mine / county	Annual production · tons	County FOB · USD/ton	Est. sales · tons	Est. coal revenue · USD	Basis / availability
Black Eagle4609550 · Raleigh, West Virginia	987,056	145.53	1,010,135	147,004,938	County allocation estimate13.96% of eligible county production12 eligible mines / 12 sales respondents

Method, assumptions and source records

This is an annual county-sales allocation, not reported mine or company revenue. Currency is nominal USD in the source year; quantities are short tons.
Mine share = same-year annual mine production / eligible same-county production. Estimated sales = published county sales × share. Estimated coal revenue = estimated sales × published county average FOB price.
The model assumes eligible mines share county sales in proportion to production and receive the county-average price. Matching mine counts is a check, not proof of identical respondents. Mine quality, contracts and sales timing can differ substantially. No statistical confidence interval is implied.
FOB excludes transport and insurance. EIA-923 delivered costs do not enter this model. No grade premium, state/national fallback, quarterly apportionment or carry-forward to a later year is applied.
Eligibility follows the source's production threshold and excludes preparation-only and refuse operations. Withheld values, inconsistent county counts and missing/ambiguous locations produce no estimate.
County sales are published in thousands of tons and prices to cents. Calculations retain precision, but the inputs are rounded and the allocation is approximate.
Portfolio attribution uses current MSHA ownership, not ownership during the sales year. Covered-mine sums exclude unavailable estimates and must not be read as whole-company revenue. Coverage denominators use the annual EIA mine-production release.

Sales-reporting threshold: 50,000 short tons per mine in 2024. Withheld sales or prices stay unavailable.

EIA Table 30 · county sales and FOB prices · EIA annual mine production · Release index

Annual report released November 19, 2025. Method: county-sales-allocation-v1. JSON and CSV preserve source row numbers and file checksums.

OWNERSHIP

Operator and controller history

Current ownership comes from MSHA Mines. Historical start and end dates come from MSHA Controller and Operator History.

CURRENT HIERARCHYAlpha Metallurgical Resources Inc → MARFORK COAL COMPANY, LLC → BLACK EAGLE

HISTORY RECORDS49 relationships

INTERVAL CHECK2 REVIEWcontroller/operator overlap

Nov 9, 2018—CURRENT / OPEN

Alpha Metallurgical Resources InccontrolsMarfork Coal Company, LLCoperatesBLACK EAGLE

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4609550

Apr 10, 2018—Jul 25, 2016

Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.controlsMarfork Coal Company, LLCoperatesBLACK EAGLE

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4609550

Apr 10, 2018—Nov 8, 2018

Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, InccontrolsMarfork Coal Company, LLCoperatesBLACK EAGLE

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4609550

Apr 10, 2018—May 31, 2011

Massey Energy CompanycontrolsMarfork Coal Company, LLCoperatesBLACK EAGLE

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4609550

Other historical summaries · source-specific periods

RECORD SUMMARY

Production, safety and enforcement

These summaries use the periods stated on each card, independently of the reporting period above.

01 / SAFETYwatch

Accidents and injuries

82 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 2,143 lost days across the published record.

ACCIDENT + INJURY RECORD75 since 2021

accidentsmine-production-quarterly

02 / COMPLIANCEwatch

Violations and penalties

2,700 violation rows across the full record; 525 carry an S&S flag and $3,087,134 appears in current assessed amounts.

ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY2,506 since 2021

inspectionsviolationsassessed-violationsorders-107a

03 / HEALTHwatch

Occupational health samples

14,397 coal dust; 502 coal quartz; 261 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 43 noise rows have an action-level or PEL dose above 100%. These are separate measures, not a silica exceedance count. Silica results and sample status are shown separately.

OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE15K samples

coal-dust-samplesquartz-samplesnoise-samples

04 / PRODUCTIONcontext

Quarterly production and employment

84K employee hours and 138 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.

2026-Q2161K tons

mine-production-quarterlymine-production-yearly

05 / LEGALwatch

Contests, conferences and decisions

562 contested-violation rows, 562 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 21 conference records linked by issuance number.

POST-ISSUANCE LIFECYCLE1,145 linked rows

conferencescontested-violationscivil-penalty-dockets-decisions

06 / CONTRACTORScontext

Contractors

Contractors are linked through this mine’s violation or accident records. Their production and hours cover all their operations, so they are not included in this mine’s totals.

ENTITY-LEVEL CONTEXT10 linked entities

contractor-production-quarterlycontractor-production-yearlyaccidentsviolations

07 / INSPECTIONScontext

Inspections

328 inspection events and 25K published inspection hours across the historical record.

OVERSIGHT COVERAGE305 since 2021

inspectionsviolations

HEALTH SAMPLING

Silica and quartz

Coal quartz, metal/nonmetal personal samples and area samples. Snapshot Oct 13, 2026. 502 silica records across the mine’s published history.

Matching records4444 coal · 0 personal · 0 area

Sample status44 not voided0 voided · 0 status not reported

Mean coal quartz concentration19.84 µg/m³44 eligible measurements · 0 missing concentration

Coal quartz concentration

Quarterly mean · µg/m³ · not-voided samples

2026-Q121.6324 measurements
2026-Q218.2711 measurements
2026-Q3179 measurements
2026-Q4*—0 measurements

— No eligible measurements. * Quarter in progress. Means describe the available samples, not average exposure across the mine.

Quartz % is the sample’s quartz content; µg/m³ is its reported concentration. Personal C/E is the ratio to the limit published with that sample. Personal and area concentration units and void status are not specified in those source files.

2026 · Jan 6, 2026–Jul 8, 2026
Date / sample	Dataset / analyte	Occupation / area	Measurement	Sample status	Published action
Jul 8, 202658573513 / lab 2026027908	Coal quartzQuartz	SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	7 µg/m³5% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Jul 7, 202658573509 / lab 2026027896	Coal quartzQuartz	CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION	6 µg/m³5% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Jul 7, 202658573682 / lab 2026027900	Coal quartzQuartz	ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	15 µg/m³3.9% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Jul 6, 202658573669 / lab 2026027763	Coal quartzQuartz	CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION	32 µg/m³12.9% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Jul 6, 202658574031 / lab 2026027757	Coal quartzQuartz	CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION	19 µg/m³6.7% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Jul 6, 202658573514 / lab 2026027759	Coal quartzQuartz	SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	13 µg/m³8.1% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Jul 6, 202658573900 / lab 2026027761	Coal quartzQuartz	ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	19 µg/m³8.4% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Jul 6, 202658573687 / lab 2026027762	Coal quartzQuartz	ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	30 µg/m³14.5% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Jul 6, 202658573511 / lab 2026027767	Coal quartzQuartz	SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	12 µg/m³9.5% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Jun 1, 202658593348 / lab 2026023365	Coal quartzQuartz	UTILITY MANPART 90 MINER	8 µg/m³5.2% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Apr 6, 202658574612 / lab 2026014359	Coal quartzQuartz	ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	24 µg/m³10.3% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Apr 6, 202658574483 / lab 2026014338	Coal quartzQuartz	CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION	49 µg/m³8.6% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Apr 6, 202658574534 / lab 2026014360	Coal quartzQuartz	CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION	15 µg/m³6.6% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Apr 6, 202658594795 / lab 2026014211	Coal quartzQuartz	LABORERPART 90 MINER	14 µg/m³5.5% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Apr 6, 202658594797 / lab 2026014212	Coal quartzQuartz	TRACKMANPART 90 MINER	12 µg/m³5.2% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Apr 6, 202658574496 / lab 2026014364	Coal quartzQuartz	SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	9 µg/m³6.8% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Apr 1, 202658574370 / lab 2026013911	Coal quartzQuartz	ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	14 µg/m³9.2% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Apr 1, 202658574197 / lab 2026013913	Coal quartzQuartz	CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION	9 µg/m³7.7% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Apr 1, 202658574211 / lab 2026013898	Coal quartzQuartz	SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	11 µg/m³9.2% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Apr 1, 202658574198 / lab 2026013896	Coal quartzQuartz	ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	36 µg/m³8.6% quartz	Not voided	Not reported

Sources and interpretation

Coal means use numeric concentrations from samples marked not voided, excluding control/invalid sample types and dates after the snapshot. Missing values remain null; reported zeroes remain zero.
Quarterly means describe available samples, not mine-wide or worker-average exposure. Quarters with no eligible measurements remain empty; the current quarter is partial.
Personal C/E is MSHA's published concentration-to-limit ratio. A value above 1 is not by itself a citation or a determination under the 2024 silica rule. Personal and area files do not publish a void-status field.
Area records include bulk-dust analyses and are kept separate from personal exposure results. Their concentration units are not specified in the source dictionary.
Missing samples do not establish safe conditions. Coal quartz percentage and concentration are separate measures. No compliance threshold is inferred for coal samples.

Coal quartz field definitions ↗Metal/nonmetal personal field definitions ↗Metal/nonmetal area field definitions ↗

EIA + TITLE 30

EIA production and cited regulations

EIA annual figures are reported separately from MSHA. Regulation links use the current eCFR snapshot.

EIA MINE CONTEXT2024 record

ANNUAL COAL PRODUCTION987,056short tons

LABOR HOURS: 496,505
AVG EMPLOYEES: 208
SUPPLY REGION: Appalachia Central
UNION: No union code published
OPERATION: Mine only
COMPANY TYPE: Operating Subsidiary

1 published EIA row aggregated under this MSHA ID. Components remain available in JSON.

TITLE 30 CROSSWALKCurrent through 2026-08-19

30 CFR 75.370Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.5 recent rows ↗30 CFR 75.517Power wires and cables; insulation and protection.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 75.1403Other safeguards.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 75.403Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 75.604Permanent splicing of trailing cables.2 recent rows ↗30 CFR 75.523-3Automatic emergency-parking brakes.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 75.400Accumulation of combustible materials.1 recent row ↗

RECENT PUBLIC RECORDS

Recent violations and samples

Latest records retained for inspection; aggregates above use the full source history.

VIOLATIONS12 latest shown

Oct 7, 2026518013175.370(a)(1)Citation

Oct 7, 2026502275575.517S&S

Oct 7, 2026502275475.1403Citation

Oct 6, 2026502275375.403Citation

Oct 5, 2026518364675.604(b)Citation

Oct 5, 2026518012775.604(b)S&S

Oct 5, 2026518012675.370(a)(1)Citation

Oct 5, 2026518012575.523-3(c)(2)Citation

OTHER HEALTH SAMPLES8 latest shown

Coal dust, noise and other contaminants. Silica records above ↑

Oct 8, 2026