MSHA DATABASEMSHA records · 17 contributing sources · snapshot Oct 13, 2026

MINE DETAILS

Powellton #1 Mine

ActiveUndergroundCoal (Bituminous)
MSHA MINE ID4609217
LOCATIONLogan, WV
PUBLIC RECORD30,744 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

195

23 significant & substantial (S&S)

  1. 2025 Q149
  2. 2025 Q220
  3. 2025 Q329
  4. 2025 Q437
  5. 2026 Q147
  6. 2026 Q24
  7. 2026 Q33
  8. 2026 Q4 *6

Accident records

2

0 records classified as fatality

  1. 2025 Q10
  2. 2025 Q20
  3. 2025 Q31
  4. 2025 Q41
  5. 2026 Q10
  6. 2026 Q20
  7. 2026 Q30
  8. 2026 Q4 *0

Proposed penalties · USD

101,905.00

186 of 195 violations with amounts

  1. 2025 Q159,701
  2. 2025 Q23,378
  3. 2025 Q39,977
  4. 2025 Q410,704
  5. 2026 Q117,181
  6. 2026 Q2662
  7. 2026 Q3302
  8. 2026 Q4 *—

On-site inspection hours

1,243.25

17 inspections · 17 with hours

  1. 2025 Q1210.00
  2. 2025 Q2187.00
  3. 2025 Q3228.00
  4. 2025 Q4233.25
  5. 2026 Q1206.50
  6. 2026 Q281.50
  7. 2026 Q361.75
  8. 2026 Q4 *35.25
Quarterly safety data
QuarterViolationsS&SProposed USDAccident recordsFatality recordsInspectionsOn-site hours
2025-Q1491459,701.00004210.0
2025-Q22003,378.00003187.0
2025-Q32939,977.00101228.0
2025-Q437110,704.00103233.3
2026-Q147417,181.00003206.5
2026-Q240662.0000181.5
2026-Q331302.0000161.8
2026-Q4 *60—00135.3

Most cited CFR sections

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

Safety activity

  1. violation5132897

    75.370(a)(1)

  2. violation5132890

    75.807

  3. violation5132889

    75.1600-3(a)(1)

  4. violation5132888

    75.1505(b)

  5. inspectionF00857B

    Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 35.3 on-site hours

  6. violation5132886

    75.220(a)(1)

  7. violation5132885

    75.1403

  8. violation5130887

    75.1403 · $151.00 proposed

  9. violation5130886

    77.208(e) · $151.00 proposed

  10. violation5130357

    Description not reported · S&S

  11. inspectionF005EB1

    Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 61.8 on-site hours

  12. violation5095924

    75.503 · $151.00 proposed

  13. violation5095918

    75.512 · $209.00 proposed

  14. violation5095917

    75.701 · $151.00 proposed

  15. violation5095916

    75.515 · $151.00 proposed

  16. inspectionF007653

    Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 81.5 on-site hours

  17. inspectionF007650

    Health Technical Investigation · 14.3 on-site hours

  18. inspectionF00A105

    Electrical Technical Investigation · 8.0 on-site hours

  19. violation5096310

    77.1104 · $151.00 proposed

  20. violation5095898

    75.701 · $151.00 proposed

  21. violation5095897

    75.1731(a) · $193.00 proposed

  22. violation5095896

    75.400 · $267.00 proposed

  23. violation5095895

    75.400 · $267.00 proposed

  24. violation5095894

    75.1731(b) · $151.00 proposed

  25. violation5095893

    77.502 · $267.00 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/TON123.83Published county average
ESTIMATED SALES · SHORT TONS115,706Allocated from published county sales
ESTIMATED COAL REVENUE · USD14,327,871Covered mines only · not reported revenue
ANNUAL PRODUCTION COVERED100.0%1 of 1 producing annual mine records
Mine / countyAnnual production · tonsCounty FOB · USD/tonEst. sales · tonsEst. coal revenue · USDBasis / availability
Powellton #1 Mine4609217 · Logan, West Virginia117,440123.83115,70614,327,871County allocation estimate1.20% of eligible county production24 eligible mines / 24 sales respondents
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 HIERARCHYJohn Mitch Potter → Coal Mac East → Powellton #1 Mine
HISTORY RECORDS616 relationships
INTERVAL CHECK1 REVIEWcontroller/operator overlap
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John Mitch PottercontrolsCoal Mac EastoperatesPowellton #1 Mine

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4609217
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Coronado Coal LLCcontrolsGreenbrier Minerals, LLCoperatesPowellton #1 Mine

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4609217
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Cleveland-Cliffs InccontrolsCliffs Logan County Coal, LLCoperatesPowellton #1 Mine

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4609217
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INR-I Holdings LLCcontrolsCliffs Logan County Coal, LLCoperatesPowellton #1 Mine

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4609217
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Energy Coal Resources InccontrolsAppalachian Fuels LLCoperatesPowellton #1 Mine

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4609217
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John C Smith JrcontrolsAppalachian Fuels LLCoperatesPowellton #1 Mine

msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4609217
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

216 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 9,905 lost days across the published record.

ACCIDENT + INJURY RECORD13 since 2021
accidentsmine-production-quarterly
02 / COMPLIANCEwatch

Violations and penalties

4,185 violation rows across the full record; 797 carry an S&S flag and $2,248,058 appears in current assessed amounts.

ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY621 since 2021
inspectionsviolationsassessed-violationsorders-107a
03 / HEALTHwatch

Occupational health samples

14,700 coal dust; 639 coal quartz; 566 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 62 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 EXPOSURE16K samples
coal-dust-samplesquartz-samplesnoise-samples
04 / PRODUCTIONcontext

Quarterly production and employment

4K employee hours and 6 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.

2026-Q22K tons
mine-production-quarterlymine-production-yearly
05 / LEGALwatch

Contests, conferences and decisions

1,185 contested-violation rows, 1,185 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 116 conference records linked by issuance number.

POST-ISSUANCE LIFECYCLE2,486 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 CONTEXT13 linked entities
contractor-production-quarterlycontractor-production-yearlyaccidentsviolations
07 / INSPECTIONScontext

Inspections

248 inspection events and 40K published inspection hours across the historical record.

OVERSIGHT COVERAGE54 since 2021
inspectionsviolations

HEALTH SAMPLING

Silica and quartz

Matching records77 coal · 0 personal · 0 area
Sample status7 not voided0 voided · 0 status not reported
Mean coal quartz concentration17.71 µg/m³7 eligible measurements · 0 missing concentration
2026 · Jan 13, 2026–Apr 23, 2026
Date / sampleDataset / analyteOccupation / areaMeasurementSample statusPublished action
58594835 / lab 2026017494Coal quartzQuartzSHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION17 µg/m³11.1% quartzNot voidedNot reported
58594891 / lab 2026017488Coal quartzQuartzCONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION15 µg/m³7.6% quartzNot voidedNot reported
58594912 / lab 2026017492Coal quartzQuartzROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION24 µg/m³8.2% quartzNot voidedNot reported
58569781 / lab 2026001320Coal quartzQuartzCONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION22 µg/m³6.2% quartzNot voidedNot reported
58569600 / lab 2026001321Coal quartzQuartzSHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION24 µg/m³7.1% quartzNot voidedNot reported
58569788 / lab 2026001332Coal quartzQuartzCONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION14 µg/m³4.5% quartzNot voidedNot reported
58569378 / lab 2026001331Coal quartzQuartzSHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (OFF STANDARD)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION8 µg/m³4.8% quartzNot voidedNot 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 PRODUCTION117,440short tons
LABOR HOURS
125,994
AVG EMPLOYEES
47
SUPPLY REGION
Appalachia Central
UNION
No union code published
OPERATION
Mine only
COMPANY TYPE
Independent Producer Operator

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

TITLE 30 CROSSWALKCurrent through 2026-08-19

RECENT PUBLIC RECORDS

Recent violations and samples

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

VIOLATIONS12 latest shown
513289775.370(a)(1)Citation
513289075.807Citation
513288975.1600-3(a)(1)Citation
513288875.1505(b)Citation
513288675.220(a)(1)Citation
513288575.1403Citation
513088775.1403Citation
513088677.208(e)Citation
OTHER HEALTH SAMPLES8 latest shown

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

NoiseSHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)
PEL dose: 6%Action-level dose: 14%
NoiseSHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (OFF STANDARD)
PEL dose: 11%Action-level dose: 25%
NoiseROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)
PEL dose: 14%Action-level dose: 26%
NoiseCONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR
PEL dose: 35%Action-level dose: 49%
NoiseSCOOP CAR OPERATOR
PEL dose: 5%Action-level dose: 12%
NoiseSHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)
PEL dose: 17%Action-level dose: 31%
NoiseCONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR
PEL dose: 27%Action-level dose: 39%
NoiseELECTRICIAN
PEL dose: 10%Action-level dose: 18%

SOURCE COVERAGE

Reporting dates and coverage

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

DATASETROWSWINDOWSTATUS
Accident, Injuries, and Illnessessafety · contractors216Jan 15, 2008—Oct 21, 2025mine-keyed
Addresses of Recordidentity · logistics1Sep 15, 2026—Sep 15, 2026mine-keyed
Assessed Violationscompliance · legal4,105Nov 16, 2007—Aug 31, 2026mine-keyed
Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisionscompliance · legal1,185Sep 20, 2010—Sep 18, 2026mine-keyed
Coal Dust Sampleshealth · safety14,700May 6, 2007—Apr 23, 2026mine-keyed
Conferencescompliance · legal116Jun 17, 2010—Jul 16, 2026mine-keyed
Contested Violationscompliance · legal1,185Jan 6, 2009—Feb 6, 2026mine-keyed
Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterlycontractors · production · safety2,745Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
Contractor Employment and Production — Yearlycontractors · production · safety535Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
Controller and Operator Historyidentity · compliance6Jun 26, 2007—Aug 1, 2026mine-keyed
Mine Employment and Production — Quarterlyproduction · safety · compliance253Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Mine Employment and Production — Yearlyproduction · safety · compliance58Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Inspectionssafety · compliance248Sep 17, 2007—Oct 1, 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 · equipment566Nov 20, 2008—Oct 7, 2026mine-keyed
Quartz Samples — Coalhealth · safety639Nov 18, 2008—Apr 23, 2026mine-keyed
Violationscompliance · safety · legal4,185Nov 16, 2007—Oct 7, 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.