MINE DETAILS

Lynn Branch No. 2 Mine

ActiveUndergroundCoal (Bituminous)

MSHA MINE ID4609575

OPERATORAracoma Coal Company, LLC

CONTROLLERAlpha Metallurgical Resources Inc

LOCATIONLogan, WV

PUBLIC RECORD18,996 linked rows

LOCATION

Mine location

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

Mine coordinates

Lynn Branch No. 2 Mine37.78139, -81.94278Open map ↗

Quarterly trends

2025 Q1 – 2026 Q4

JSON CSV

Database snapshot · 2026-10-18. MSHA quarterly production and employment reports.

Coal production

1,815,913

reported short tons

2025 Q1340,153
2025 Q2311,251
2025 Q3328,780
2025 Q4275,554
2026 Q1285,251
2026 Q2274,924
2026 Q3—No usable value reported
2026 Q4 *—No usable value reported

Hours worked

675,260

reported employee hours

2025 Q1133,042
2025 Q2108,609
2025 Q3104,886
2025 Q4101,963
2026 Q1117,335
2026 Q2109,425
2026 Q3—No usable value reported
2026 Q4 *—No usable value reported

Tons per hour

2.69

production ÷ hours worked

2025 Q12.56
2025 Q22.87
2025 Q33.13
2025 Q42.70
2026 Q12.43
2026 Q22.51
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 Lynn Branch No. 2 Mine
Quarter	Coal (short tons)	Hours worked	Tons / hour	Avg. employees	Coverage
2025 Q1	340,153	133,042	2.56	203	1/1 mines reporting
2025 Q2	311,251	108,609	2.87	170	1/1 mines reporting
2025 Q3	328,780	104,886	3.13	171	1/1 mines reporting
2025 Q4	275,554	101,963	2.70	175	1/1 mines reporting
2026 Q1	285,251	117,335	2.43	174	1/1 mines reporting
2026 Q2	274,924	109,425	2.51	169	1/1 mines reporting
2026 Q3	—	—	—	—	No report
2026 Q4	—	—	—	—	No report

Safety and enforcement

2025-01-01 – 2026-10-18

Violations

569

132 significant & substantial (S&S)

2025 Q190
2025 Q297
2025 Q377
2025 Q488
2026 Q148
2026 Q279
2026 Q368
2026 Q4 *22

Accident records

0 records classified as fatality

2025 Q12
2025 Q21
2025 Q30
2025 Q45
2026 Q11
2026 Q20
2026 Q33
2026 Q4 *0

Proposed penalties · USD

669,860.00

529 of 569 violations with amounts

2025 Q1117,488
2025 Q2127,695
2025 Q3126,400
2025 Q4110,832
2026 Q137,297
2026 Q254,880
2026 Q395,268
2026 Q4 *—

On-site inspection hours

3,421.75

79 inspections · 79 with hours

2025 Q1474.00
2025 Q2469.75
2025 Q3399.50
2025 Q4552.00
2026 Q1459.50
2026 Q2514.00
2026 Q3478.00
2026 Q4 *75.00

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	Inspections	On-site hours
2025-Q1	90	19	117,488.00	2	12	474.0
2025-Q2	97	18	127,695.00	1	11	469.8
2025-Q3	77	22	126,400.00	0	10	399.5
2025-Q4	88	27	110,832.00	5	11	552.0
2026-Q1	48	7	37,297.00	1	10	459.5
2026-Q2	79	15	54,880.00	0	12	514.0
2026-Q3	68	22	95,268.00	3	10	478.0
2026-Q4 *	22	2	—	0	3	75.0

Most cited CFR sections

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

Section	Violations	S&S
30 CFR 75.400Accumulation of combustible materials.	50	0
30 CFR 75.503Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.	44	0
30 CFR 75.370Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.	38	5
30 CFR 75.512Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.	38	5
30 CFR 75.202Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.	37	32
30 CFR 75.517Power wires and cables; insulation and protection.	31	25
30 CFR 75.220Roof control plan.	30	8
30 CFR 75.1403Other safeguards.	27	2
30 CFR 75.1725Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.	24	20
30 CFR 75.604Permanent splicing of trailing cables.	21	12

Safety activity

inspection2026-02-03F010DE3
103(i) Spot Inspections · 8.5 on-site hours
violation2026-02-035095484
75.1106-3(a)(2) · $226.00 proposed
violation2026-02-035095483
75.604(b) · S&S · $4,749.00 proposed
violation2026-02-035095482
75.1103-1 · $151.00 proposed
violation2026-01-305130350
75.400 · $336.00 proposed
violation2026-01-305130349
75.604(b) · $959.00 proposed
violation2026-01-295095479
75.1731(a) · $151.00 proposed
violation2026-01-295095478
75.400 · $313.00 proposed
violation2026-01-285130348
75.604(b) · $883.00 proposed
violation2026-01-285095477
75.904 · $504.00 proposed
violation2026-01-285095476
75.604(b) · $883.00 proposed
violation2026-01-285095475
75.512 · $288.00 proposed
inspection2026-01-227048265
103(i) Spot Inspections · 6.0 on-site hours
violation2026-01-225130347
75.503 · $313.00 proposed
accident2026-01-20220260220027
HANDLING OF MATERIALS · NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
Accident narrative
Was removing rock from continuous miner when the corner broke off rock and struck them on right eyebrow and nose causing laceration requiring 8 sutures, employee was treated and released at hospital
violation2026-01-205131731
75.517 · S&S · $3,184.00 proposed
violation2026-01-205131730
75.512 · $288.00 proposed
inspection2026-01-157048069
103(i) Spot Inspections · 11.8 on-site hours
violation2026-01-155130346
75.400 · $336.00 proposed
violation2026-01-155130345
75.202(a) · S&S · $2,503.00 proposed
violation2026-01-155130344
75.202(a) · S&S · $2,503.00 proposed
violation2026-01-155130343
75.340(a)(1)(i) · $151.00 proposed
violation2026-01-155130342
75.1202-1(b)(4) · $151.00 proposed
violation2026-01-145130341
75.503 · $267.00 proposed
violation2026-01-135096302
75.701 · $151.00 proposed

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.

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/TON123.83Published county average

ESTIMATED SALES · SHORT TONS1,195,197Allocated from published county sales

ESTIMATED COAL REVENUE · USD148,001,272Covered 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
Lynn Branch No. 2 Mine4609575 · Logan, West Virginia	1,213,109	123.83	1,195,197	148,001,272	County allocation estimate12.45% of eligible county production24 eligible mines / 24 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 → Aracoma Coal Company, LLC → Lynn Branch No. 2 Mine

HISTORY RECORDS49 relationships

INTERVAL CHECK3 REVIEWcontroller/operator overlap

Jun 11, 2019—Jul 25, 2016

Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.controlsAracoma Coal Company, LLCoperatesLynn Branch No. 2 Mine

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4609575

Jun 11, 2019—CURRENT / OPEN

Alpha Metallurgical Resources InccontrolsAracoma Coal Company, LLCoperatesLynn Branch No. 2 Mine

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4609575

Jun 11, 2019—Nov 8, 2018

Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, InccontrolsAracoma Coal Company, LLCoperatesLynn Branch No. 2 Mine

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4609575

Jun 11, 2019—May 31, 2011

Massey Energy CompanycontrolsAracoma Coal Company, LLCoperatesLynn Branch No. 2 Mine

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4609575

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

53 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 2,036 lost days across the published record.

ACCIDENT + INJURY RECORD51 since 2021

accidentsmine-production-quarterly

02 / COMPLIANCEwatch

Violations and penalties

1,564 violation rows across the full record; 315 carry an S&S flag and $1,266,670 appears in current assessed amounts.

ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY1,525 since 2021

inspectionsviolationsassessed-violationsorders-107a

03 / HEALTHwatch

Occupational health samples

12,618 coal dust; 488 coal quartz; 286 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 28 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 EXPOSURE13K samples

coal-dust-samplesquartz-samplesnoise-samples

04 / PRODUCTIONcontext

Quarterly production and employment

109K employee hours and 169 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.

2026-Q2275K tons

mine-production-quarterlymine-production-yearly

05 / LEGALwatch

Contests, conferences and decisions

161 contested-violation rows, 161 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 128 conference records linked by issuance number.

POST-ISSUANCE LIFECYCLE450 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 CONTEXT7 linked entities

contractor-production-quarterlycontractor-production-yearlyaccidentsviolations

07 / INSPECTIONScontext

Inspections

235 inspection events and 12K published inspection hours across the historical record.

OVERSIGHT COVERAGE228 since 2021

inspectionsviolations

HEALTH SAMPLING

Silica and quartz

Coal quartz, metal/nonmetal personal samples and area samples. Snapshot Oct 18, 2026. 488 silica records across the mine’s published history.

Matching records4949 coal · 0 personal · 0 area

Sample status49 not voided0 voided · 0 status not reported

Mean coal quartz concentration13.2 µg/m³49 eligible measurements · 0 missing concentration

Coal quartz concentration

Quarterly mean · µg/m³ · not-voided samples

2026-Q11418 measurements
2026-Q215.3222 measurements
2026-Q36.449 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 7, 2026–Sep 2, 2026
Date / sample	Dataset / analyte	Occupation / area	Measurement	Sample status	Published action
Sep 2, 202658595849 / lab 2026036545	Coal quartzQuartz	CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION	8 µg/m³2.7% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Sep 2, 202658595585 / lab 2026036544	Coal quartzQuartz	ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	4 µg/m³2.6% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Sep 2, 202658595866 / lab 2026036543	Coal quartzQuartz	SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	4 µg/m³2.6% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Aug 10, 202658595681 / lab 2026032693	Coal quartzQuartz	SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	9 µg/m³4.2% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Aug 10, 202658595734 / lab 2026032694	Coal quartzQuartz	ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	5 µg/m³4% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Aug 10, 202658595654 / lab 2026032700	Coal quartzQuartz	CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION	6 µg/m³3% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Aug 10, 202658595758 / lab 2026032696	Coal quartzQuartz	CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION	3 µg/m³2.5% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Aug 10, 202658596137 / lab 2026032706	Coal quartzQuartz	SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	16 µg/m³5% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
Aug 5, 202658594885 / lab 2026032276	Coal quartzQuartz	FIRE BOSS PRE-SHIFT EXAMINERPART 90 MINER	3 µg/m³1.4% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
May 20, 202658593733 / lab 2026021233	Coal quartzQuartz	SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	4 µg/m³3.2% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
May 20, 202658593738 / lab 2026021225	Coal quartzQuartz	SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	6 µg/m³3.6% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
May 20, 202658593739 / lab 2026021231	Coal quartzQuartz	ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	27 µg/m³6.9% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
May 20, 202658593636 / lab 2026021222	Coal quartzQuartz	ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	25 µg/m³6.5% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
May 20, 202658593287 / lab 2026021234	Coal quartzQuartz	CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION	6 µg/m³4.4% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
May 20, 202658593272 / lab 2026021223	Coal quartzQuartz	CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION	12 µg/m³4.8% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
May 19, 202658593222 / lab 2026021083	Coal quartzQuartz	ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	17 µg/m³11.1% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
May 19, 202658593735 / lab 2026021091	Coal quartzQuartz	ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	13 µg/m³8.8% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
May 19, 202658593235 / lab 2026021079	Coal quartzQuartz	SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	17 µg/m³11% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
May 19, 202658593732 / lab 2026021088	Coal quartzQuartz	CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION	14 µg/m³9% quartz	Not voided	Not reported
May 19, 202658593646 / lab 2026021089	Coal quartzQuartz	SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION	7 µg/m³6.3% 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 PRODUCTION1,213,109short tons

LABOR HOURS: 540,006
AVG EMPLOYEES: 214
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 75.517Power wires and cables; insulation and protection.2 recent rows ↗30 CFR 75.515Cable fittings; suitability.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 75.1107-16Inspection of fire suppression devices.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 75.604Permanent splicing of trailing cables.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 75.512Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 75.202Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 75.1732Proximity detection systems.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 15, 2026509801775.517Citation

Oct 14, 2026513470575.515Citation

Oct 14, 2026513466275.517Citation

Oct 14, 2026513466175.1107-16(b)Citation

Oct 13, 2026513470475.604(b)Citation

Oct 13, 2026513470375.512Citation

Oct 13, 20265134702—Citation

Oct 13, 2026513470175.202(a)S&S

OTHER HEALTH SAMPLES8 latest shown

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

Oct 14, 2026