MSHA DATABASEMSHA records · 16 contributing sources · snapshot Oct 13, 2026

MINE DETAILS

Eckman Loadout

ActiveFacilityCoal (Bituminous)
MSHA MINE ID4603341
LOCATIONMcdowell, WV
PUBLIC RECORD2,016 linked rows

LOCATION

Mine location

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

Mine coordinates

2025-01-01 – 2026-10-13Applies to production, safety and portfolio metrics. Silica samples have separate filters.

Violations

10

6 significant & substantial (S&S)

  1. 2025 Q15
  2. 2025 Q21
  3. 2025 Q30
  4. 2025 Q40
  5. 2026 Q10
  6. 2026 Q20
  7. 2026 Q34
  8. 2026 Q4 *0

Accident records

0

0 records classified as fatality

  1. 2025 Q10
  2. 2025 Q20
  3. 2025 Q30
  4. 2025 Q40
  5. 2026 Q10
  6. 2026 Q20
  7. 2026 Q30
  8. 2026 Q4 *0

Proposed penalties · USD

1,122.00

6 of 10 violations with amounts

  1. 2025 Q1971
  2. 2025 Q2151
  3. 2025 Q3—
  4. 2025 Q4—
  5. 2026 Q1—
  6. 2026 Q2—
  7. 2026 Q3—
  8. 2026 Q4 *—

On-site inspection hours

59.00

3 inspections · 3 with hours

  1. 2025 Q1—
  2. 2025 Q218.25
  3. 2025 Q3—
  4. 2025 Q419.25
  5. 2026 Q1—
  6. 2026 Q2—
  7. 2026 Q321.50
  8. 2026 Q4 *—
Quarterly safety data
QuarterViolationsS&SProposed USDAccident recordsFatality recordsInspectionsOn-site hours
2025-Q153971.00000—
2025-Q210151.0000118.3
2025-Q300—000—
2025-Q400—00119.3
2026-Q100—000—
2026-Q200—000—
2026-Q343—00121.5
2026-Q4 *00—000—

Most cited CFR sections

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

Safety activity

  1. violation5094880

    77.204 · S&S

  2. violation5094879

    77.205(a) · S&S

  3. violation5094878

    77.1109(e)(1)

  4. violation5094877

    77.205(b) · S&S

  5. inspectionF02A97C

    Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 21.5 on-site hours

  6. inspectionF00EB35

    Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 19.3 on-site hours

  7. violation9591691

    77.1606(c) · $151.00 proposed

  8. inspection7048156

    Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 18.3 on-site hours

  9. violation9597923

    77.404(a) · S&S · $151.00 proposed

  10. violation9597922

    77.404(a) · S&S · $245.00 proposed

  11. violation9597921

    48.25(a) · S&S · $273.00 proposed

  12. violation9597920

    77.410(a)(1) · $151.00 proposed

  13. violation9597919

    77.1606(c) · $151.00 proposed

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.

Latest EIA month: 2026-07Source checked 2026-10-13 · publication lag differs from MSHA.

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.

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

Latest priced year: 2024Source checked 2026-10-13. Prices apply only to their calendar year.

FOB PRICE BENCHMARK · USD/TON—Published county average
ESTIMATED SALES · SHORT TONS—Allocated from published county sales
ESTIMATED COAL REVENUE · USD—Covered mines only · not reported revenue
ANNUAL PRODUCTION COVERED—0 of 0 producing annual mine records
Mine / countyAnnual production · tonsCounty FOB · USD/tonEst. sales · tonsEst. coal revenue · USDBasis / availability
Eckman Loadout4603341 · Location unavailable————No matching annual production record
Method, assumptions and source records
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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 HIERARCHYCleveland-Cliffs Inc → Prime Processing, Inc. → Eckman Loadout
HISTORY RECORDS1332 relationships
INTERVAL CHECK2 REVIEWcontroller/operator overlap
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Cleveland-Cliffs InccontrolsExtra Energy, Inc.operatesEckman Loadout

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4603341
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Cleveland-Cliffs InccontrolsPrime Processing, Inc.operatesEckman Loadout

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4603341
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ArcelorMittalcontrolsExtra Energy, Inc.operatesEckman Loadout

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4603341
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ArcelorMittalcontrolsPrime Processing, Inc.operatesEckman Loadout

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4603341
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Steven W Haynes et alcontrolsPrime Processing, Inc.operatesEckman Loadout

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4603341
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Richard G Preservati et alcontrolsRegal Rock, Inc.operatesEckman Loadout

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4603341
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Nancy K Preservati et alcontrolsRegal Rock, Inc.operatesEckman Loadout

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4603341
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Steven W Haynes et alcontrolsExtra Energy, Inc.operatesEckman Loadout

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4603341
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Horizon Natural Resources IncorporatedcontrolsPremium Processing IncoperatesEckman Loadout

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4603341
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Timothy BoggesscontrolsPremium Processing IncoperatesEckman Loadout

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4603341
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Richard G Preservati IIcontrolsRitchie Equipment IncoperatesEckman Loadout

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4603341
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Clovis CoxcontrolsPatsy Trucking Company IncoperatesEckman Loadout

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4603341
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CONSOL Energy InccontrolsPocahontas Fuel CompanyoperatesEckman Loadout

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4603341
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

13 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 204 lost days across the published record.

ACCIDENT + INJURY RECORD1 since 2021
accidentsmine-production-quarterly
02 / COMPLIANCEwatch

Violations and penalties

155 violation rows across the full record; 56 carry an S&S flag and $57,413 appears in current assessed amounts.

ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY30 since 2021
inspectionsviolationsassessed-violationsorders-107a
03 / HEALTHcontext

Occupational health samples

139 coal dust; 84 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 EXPOSURE223 samples
coal-dust-samplesnoise-samples
04 / PRODUCTIONcontext

Quarterly production and employment

8K employee hours and 13 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.

2026-Q20 tons
mine-production-quarterlymine-production-yearly
05 / LEGALwatch

Contests, conferences and decisions

7 contested-violation rows, 7 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 9 conference records linked by issuance number.

POST-ISSUANCE LIFECYCLE23 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 CONTEXT12 linked entities
contractor-production-quarterlycontractor-production-yearlyaccidentsviolations
07 / INSPECTIONScontext

Inspections

98 inspection events and 2K published inspection hours across the historical record.

OVERSIGHT COVERAGE15 since 2021
inspectionsviolations

HEALTH SAMPLING

Silica and quartz

Matching records00 coal · 0 personal · 0 area
Sample status0 not voided0 voided · 0 status not reported
Personal samples with C/E > 1—0 published ratios · not a citation count
2026 · No reported dates in this selection
Date / sampleDataset / analyteOccupation / areaMeasurementSample statusPublished action
No silica records match these filters. Missing samples do not establish safe conditions.
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.

RECENT PUBLIC RECORDS

Recent violations and samples

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

VIOLATIONS12 latest shown
509488077.204S&S
509487977.205(a)S&S
509487877.1109(e)(1)Citation
509487777.205(b)S&S
959169177.1606(c)Citation
959792377.404(a)S&S
959792277.404(a)S&S
959792148.25(a)S&S
OTHER HEALTH SAMPLES8 latest shown

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

Coal dustHIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER
.144 mg/m³Not voided
Coal dustUTILITY MAN
.099 mg/m³Not voided
Coal dustPREPARATION PLANT FOREMAN
.207 mg/m³Not voided
Coal dustUTILITY MAN
.039 mg/m³Not voided
Coal dustMINE FOREMAN/MINE MANAGER
.078 mg/m³Not voided
Coal dustUTILITY MAN
.074 mg/m³Not voided
NoiseMINE FOREMAN/MINE MANAGER
PEL dose: 1%Action-level dose: 5%
NoiseUTILITY MAN
PEL dose: 4%Action-level dose: 8%

SOURCE COVERAGE

Reporting dates and coverage

16 datasets contain linked records. Missing datasets are listed below.

DATASETROWSWINDOWSTATUS
Accident, Injuries, and Illnessessafety · contractors13Dec 9, 2008—Sep 17, 2024mine-keyed
Addresses of Recordidentity · logistics1Jul 7, 2014—Jul 7, 2014mine-keyed
Assessed Violationscompliance · legal149Nov 21, 2000—Jun 1, 2025mine-keyed
Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisionscompliance · legal7Aug 13, 2010—Apr 20, 2012mine-keyed
Coal Dust Sampleshealth · safety139May 9, 2000—Sep 15, 2026mine-keyed
Conferencescompliance · legal9Apr 2, 2014—Feb 13, 2020mine-keyed
Contested Violationscompliance · legal7May 19, 2008—Mar 28, 2010mine-keyed
Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterlycontractors · production · safety982Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
Contractor Employment and Production — Yearlycontractors · production · safety183Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
Controller and Operator Historyidentity · compliance13Jan 1, 1950—Oct 1, 2004mine-keyed
Mine Employment and Production — Quarterlyproduction · safety · compliance148Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Mine Employment and Production — Yearlyproduction · safety · compliance27Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Inspectionssafety · compliance98May 9, 2000—Aug 27, 2026mine-keyed
Minesidentity · production · logistics1Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Metal and Nonmetal Area Sampleshealth · safety—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Sampleshealth · safety—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Noise Sampleshealth · safety · equipment84Jul 2, 2001—Oct 27, 2025mine-keyed
Quartz Samples — Coalhealth · safety—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Violationscompliance · safety · legal155Nov 21, 2000—Sep 9, 2026mine-keyed
107(a) Orders Issuedsafety · compliance—No published rowsabsent / not applicable

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.