MINE DETAILS
Buchanan Mine #1
LOCATION
Mine location
1 of 1 mine with usable MSHA coordinates. Select a marker to open a mine.
Mine coordinates
- Buchanan Mine #137.16139, -81.98694Open map ↗
Quarterly trends
2025 Q1 – 2026 Q4
Database snapshot · 2026-10-18. MSHA quarterly production and employment reports.
Coal production
6,221,616reported short tons
Hours worked
2,462,240reported employee hours
Tons per hour
2.53production ÷ hours worked
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
| Quarter | Coal (short tons) | Hours worked | Tons / hour | Avg. employees | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q1 | 884,581 | 442,239 | 2.00 | 709 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q2 | 982,524 | 360,772 | 2.72 | 563 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q3 | 1,139,172 | 377,291 | 3.02 | 631 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q4 | 912,634 | 381,767 | 2.39 | 669 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q1 | 1,086,096 | 448,973 | 2.42 | 706 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q2 | 1,216,609 | 451,198 | 2.70 | 747 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q3 | — | — | — | — | No report |
| 2026 Q4 | — | — | — | — | No report |
Safety and enforcement
2025-01-01 – 2026-10-18
Violations
735137 significant & substantial (S&S)
Accident records
870 records classified as fatality
Proposed penalties · USD
503,141.00666 of 735 violations with amounts
On-site inspection hours
8,663.75162 inspections · 162 with hours
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 | 54 | 10 | 52,170.00 | 10 | 0 | 20 | 1,000.5 |
| 2025-Q2 | 78 | 19 | 59,167.00 | 9 | 0 | 23 | 1,118.5 |
| 2025-Q3 | 91 | 15 | 92,955.00 | 14 | 0 | 21 | 1,125.3 |
| 2025-Q4 | 143 | 20 | 85,539.00 | 10 | 0 | 23 | 1,222.0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 97 | 29 | 107,128.00 | 14 | 0 | 21 | 1,246.8 |
| 2026-Q2 | 105 | 25 | 72,887.00 | 16 | 0 | 25 | 1,387.0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 130 | 14 | 33,295.00 | 14 | 0 | 25 | 1,418.8 |
| 2026-Q4 * | 37 | 5 | — | 0 | 0 | 4 | 145.0 |
Most cited CFR sections
All violations issued in the selected period. Counts combine subsections.
Safety activity
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) · DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
Accident narrative
The injured was trying to insert/align a shear pin in the relay bar on shield #2. While trying to align the pin, a come-along that was hooked from the header to the relay bar became unhooked, striking the employee on the top of the right hand causing a laceration which required sutures to close.
HANDLING OF MATERIALS · DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
Accident narrative
With the help of two other employees, the injured helped to hang the miner cable & water line cross the #3 entry. The injured felt a dull pain in the lumbar area of EE's back and stated it was getting worst as EE sat bits on the miner
DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS · OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6
Accident narrative
Exposure to Coal Mine Dust
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
Accident narrative
The injured was walking in 5 north bleeders from 17 east to 16 east. Their left foot slipped while walking in wet and muddy rock dust and when they went to catch themselves with their right leg, they felt a pain in their right knee.
MACHINERY · NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
Accident narrative
Shear Operator was spotting a shield to catch rock on the LW face, a piece of rock rolled out into the panline and hit the spill board and a piece of rock measuring 54"x14"x3-8" broke off after striking the spill board and fell into the walkway and struck the the employee on the right side of right foot causing a laceration which required 2 staples to close.
HOISTING · ACCIDENT ONLY
Accident narrative
Light on the control panel for "Door open" on the Horn Mountain Portal Hoist stayed on and was flashing even when the door was shut and the hoist would not work when a button was pushed to send it to mine level. T
DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS · OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6
Accident narrative
Exposure to Coal Mine Dust
HANDLING OF MATERIALS · DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
Accident narrative
The injured was in the process of removing belt structure from the 16 East LW belt and stacking it on a flat Car when they felt a pop in their back.
POWERED HAULAGE · DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
Accident narrative
While attempting to accessing the offside area of the 2 East belt, to pre-shift the drive motors, the employee moved under the conveyor structure/Cross under guard. During this movement, a portion of the employee's coat contacted a bottom conveyor roller. Resulting in abrasions and swelling to right elbow and abrasions to right arm.
HANDLING OF MATERIALS · DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
Accident narrative
The employee was at 7 East Brk 60 at the Double doors picking up trash/old pipe and loading it on flat cars and as they threw the pipe/trash on the car, employee states that they lost balance and caught themselves with left hand and used the flat car to catch themselves, they felt a pop in left shoulder.
HOISTING · ACCIDENT ONLY
Accident narrative
The angle iron for the stop switch broke off and got fouled between the elevator and the beam causing damage to control leads. The control leads were replaced and PLC's had to be reprogrammed.
POWERED HAULAGE · DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
Accident narrative
A Maintenance Foreman and a passenger was in the process of traveling from 9 Vent bottom to 17 East section to work on high voltage power line. While in the second block light of the 5 North back track, at crosscut #44 it is believed that the injured employee's cap light struck a low spot on the mine roof (57 inches) causing trauma to their neck and vertebrae.
HOISTING · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
Accident narrative
The injured and three other employees was riding the Page mini-cage (old) down when it unexpectedly jerked approximately 3 feet from the landing, as it was slowing down to stop at the destination causing EE's knees to buckle.
HANDLING OF MATERIALS · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
Accident narrative
Employee injured right shoulder while handling props on 1/20/26. They worked unrestricted until 4/5/26, began missing work 4/6/26. This incident did not involve any aspect of compliance with rules and regulations; mine equipment or mining system; job skills and miner proficiency, training and attitude; or protective items relating to clothing, or protective devices on equipment.
HOISTING · ACCIDENT ONLY
Accident narrative
The trailing cable was cut into by a clip as Coalfield was coming out on the hoist after installing two channels at skip load cell level. The cable was replaced with a new cable on 01/22/2026 and the hoist put back into service at approximately 5:00 PM
DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS · OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6
Accident narrative
Exposure to Coal Mine Dust
HOISTING · ACCIDENT ONLY
Accident narrative
wires inside of the conduit that feeds the surface controls were grounded and changed out with all new wiring and installed 2 new door switches
DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS · OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6
Accident narrative
Exposure to Coal Mine Dust
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
Accident narrative
The injured was walking down the concrete slope at the production belt, when EE slipped/fell & twisted EE's right. The employee started missing work on 1/18/26.
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON · DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
Accident narrative
The injured person was in the process of removing a ventilation tubing chain from the mine roof when the accident occurred. After lowering the chain, they stepped back and twisted their right ankle.
HOISTING · ACCIDENT ONLY
Accident narrative
Replace Friction Drum liners on Horn Mountain Portal (9 Vent) Hoist
HANDLING OF MATERIALS · DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
Accident narrative
Employee lifting an 18' ventilation slider to line up to slide into a piece of 20' ventilation tubing, an employee in the back of the slider heard someone say push the slider and when EE did the foreman's finger was struck against the D-ring of the slider and the 20' tubing. Resulting in a fracture, and a laceration that required 2 sutures to the tip of EE's left middle finger.
MACHINERY · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
Accident narrative
The injured stated that they were operating the tail sider shearer on 16 East LW section, in the process of cutting bottom on the tail and during the cut out process they were struck by an object that was slung out by the tail side cutter drum, striking them on the upper torso, resulting in two fractured ribs.
HOISTING · ACCIDENT ONLY
Accident narrative
Had to replace 2 blown fuses for the 8 Vent Hoist
DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS · OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6
Accident narrative
Exposure to Coal Mine Dust
Safety sources and definitions
MSHA Violations (issue date), Accidents (accident date), and Inspections (begin date). Snapshot 2026-10-18.
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.
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.
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. Unavailable estimates are excluded; this is not a total for the whole portfolio. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchanan Mine #14404856 · Buchanan, Virginia | 3,874,816 | — | — | — | County sales or price not published6 eligible mines / 6 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.
Coronado Coal LLCcontrolsBuchanan Minerals, LLCoperatesBuchanan Mine #1
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4404856CONSOL Energy InccontrolsCONSOL Buchanan Mining Company LLCoperatesBuchanan Mine #1
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4404856Robert E MurraycontrolsConsolidation Coal CompanyoperatesBuchanan Mine #1
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4404856CONSOL Energy InccontrolsConsolidation Coal CompanyoperatesBuchanan Mine #1
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4404856Other 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.
Accidents and injuries
724 historical accident/injury rows; 8 coded fatalities and 19,870 lost days across the published record.
accidentsmine-production-quarterlyViolations and penalties
11,158 violation rows across the full record; 3,338 carry an S&S flag and $5,951,472 appears in current assessed amounts.
inspectionsviolationsassessed-violationsorders-107aOccupational health samples
42,822 coal dust; 2,583 coal quartz; 1,702 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 368 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.
coal-dust-samplesquartz-samplesnoise-samplesQuarterly production and employment
451K employee hours and 747 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
mine-production-quarterlymine-production-yearlyContests, conferences and decisions
2,402 contested-violation rows, 2,419 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 631 conference records linked by issuance number.
conferencescontested-violationscivil-penalty-dockets-decisionsContractors
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.
contractor-production-quarterlycontractor-production-yearlyaccidentsviolationsInspections
2,842 inspection events and 183K published inspection hours across the historical record.
inspectionsviolationsHEALTH SAMPLING
Silica and quartz
Coal quartz, metal/nonmetal personal samples and area samples. Snapshot Oct 18, 2026. 2,583 silica records across the mine’s published history.
Coal quartz concentration
Quarterly mean · µg/m³ · not-voided samples
— 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.
| Date / sample | Dataset / analyte | Occupation / area | Measurement | Sample status | Published action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 58532174 / lab 2026037845 | Coal quartzQuartz | MECHANICNON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 17 µg/m³4% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58532246 / lab 2026037847 | Coal quartzQuartz | OCCUPATION CODE NOT FOUNDINTAKE AIR | 0 µg/m³—% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58532525 / lab 2026037846 | Coal quartzQuartz | JACK SETTER (LONGWALL)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 11 µg/m³3.1% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58532103 / lab 2026037842 | Coal quartzQuartz | LONGWALL OPERATOR (TAILGATE SIDE)DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 12 µg/m³3.5% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58532314 / lab 2026036782 | Coal quartzQuartz | FINE COAL PLANT OPERATORDESIGNATED WORK POSITION | 0 µg/m³—% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58532404 / lab 2026036785 | Coal quartzQuartz | ELECTRICIANDESIGNATED WORK POSITION | 0 µg/m³—% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58532172 / lab 2026036787 | Coal quartzQuartz | MECHANICDESIGNATED WORK POSITION | 2 µg/m³1.1% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58532116 / lab 2026036783 | Coal quartzQuartz | VACUUM FILTER OPERATORDESIGNATED WORK POSITION | 0 µg/m³—% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58532325 / lab 2026034220 | Coal quartzQuartz | OCCUPATION CODE NOT FOUNDINTAKE AIR | 1 µg/m³0.5% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58532436 / lab 2026034221 | Coal quartzQuartz | HEADGATE OPERATORPART 90 MINER | 0 µg/m³—% quartz | VoidedINVALID SAMPLE TYPE | Not reported |
| 58532245 / lab 2026034219 | Coal quartzQuartz | MECHANICNON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 0 µg/m³—% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58532228 / lab 2026034223 | Coal quartzQuartz | LONGWALL OPERATOR (TAILGATE SIDE)DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 18 µg/m³2.4% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58532485 / lab 2026034218 | Coal quartzQuartz | JACK SETTER (LONGWALL)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 19 µg/m³2.8% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58531981 / lab 2026033589 | Coal quartzQuartz | OCCUPATION CODE NOT FOUNDINTAKE AIR | 5 µg/m³2.8% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58532134 / lab 2026033594 | Coal quartzQuartz | ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 9 µg/m³4.7% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58532115 / lab 2026033587 | Coal quartzQuartz | CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 10 µg/m³5.1% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58532250 / lab 2026033627 | Coal quartzQuartz | CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 4 µg/m³1.4% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58531982 / lab 2026033626 | Coal quartzQuartz | ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 4 µg/m³1.5% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58532233 / lab 2026033625 | Coal quartzQuartz | OCCUPATION CODE NOT FOUNDINTAKE AIR | 13 µg/m³2.8% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58532102 / lab 2026032497 | Coal quartzQuartz | ELECTRICIANPART 90 MINER | 4 µg/m³1.9% 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.
- LABOR HOURS
- 1,604,174
- AVG EMPLOYEES
- 702
- SUPPLY REGION
- Appalachia Central
- UNION
- No union code published
- OPERATION
- Mine and Preparation Plant
- COMPANY TYPE
- Operating Subsidiary
1 published EIA row aggregated under this MSHA ID. Components remain available in JSON.
RECENT PUBLIC RECORDS
Recent violations and samples
Latest records retained for inspection; aggregates above use the full source history.
Coal dust, noise and other contaminants. Silica records above ↑
SOURCE COVERAGE
Reporting dates and coverage
17 datasets contain linked records. Missing datasets are listed below.
NOTES
Limitations
- Contractor production is entity-level and is never represented as mine-attributable.
- Missing rows can mean no event, publication delay, identity mismatch, or inapplicability.