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

MINE DETAILS

Sago Mine

Abandoned and SealedUndergroundCoal (Bituminous)
MSHA MINE ID4608791
LOCATIONUpshur, WV
PUBLIC RECORD4,540 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

0

0 significant & substantial (S&S)

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Accident records

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0 records classified as fatality

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Proposed penalties · USD

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0 of 0 violations with amounts

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On-site inspection hours

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0 inspections · 0 with hours

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Quarterly safety data
QuarterViolationsS&SProposed USDAccident recordsFatality recordsInspectionsOn-site hours
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Most cited CFR sections

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

SectionViolationsS&S

No violation records in this period.

Safety activity

    No matching records in this period.

    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
    Sago Mine4608791 · 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 HIERARCHYCore Natural Resources Inc → Wolf Run Mining Company → Sago Mine
    HISTORY RECORDS512 relationships
    INTERVAL CHECKPASScontroller/operator overlap
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    Core Natural Resources InccontrolsWolf Run Mining CompanyoperatesSago Mine

    msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4608791
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    Arch Resources InccontrolsWolf Run Mining CompanyoperatesSago Mine

    msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4608791
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    International Coal Group Inc (ICG)controlsWolf Run Mining CompanyoperatesSago Mine

    msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4608791
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    Anker Group InccontrolsWolf Run Mining CompanyoperatesSago Mine

    msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4608791
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    Bruce W SiglercontrolsBjm Coal CompanyoperatesSago Mine

    msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4608791
    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 / SAFETYneutral

    Accidents and injuries

    173 historical accident/injury rows; 12 coded fatalities and 2,974 lost days across the published record.

    ACCIDENT + INJURY RECORD0 since 2021
    accidentsmine-production-quarterly
    02 / COMPLIANCEneutral

    Violations and penalties

    853 violation rows across the full record; 328 carry an S&S flag and $371,914 appears in current assessed amounts.

    ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY0 since 2021
    inspectionsviolationsassessed-violationsorders-107a
    03 / HEALTHwatch

    Occupational health samples

    742 coal dust; 60 coal quartz; 73 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 41 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 EXPOSURE875 samples
    coal-dust-samplesquartz-samplesnoise-samples
    04 / PRODUCTIONcontext

    Quarterly production and employment

    2K employee hours and 8 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.

    2009-Q20 tons
    mine-production-quarterlymine-production-yearly
    05 / LEGALwatch

    Contests, conferences and decisions

    100 contested-violation rows, 105 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 56 conference records linked by issuance number.

    POST-ISSUANCE LIFECYCLE261 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

    424 inspection events and 18K published inspection hours across the historical record.

    OVERSIGHT COVERAGE0 since 2021
    inspectionsviolations

    HEALTH SAMPLING

    Silica and quartz

    Matching records00 coal · 0 personal · 0 area
    Sample status0 not voided0 voided · 0 status not reported
    Mean coal quartz concentration— µg/m³0 eligible measurements · 0 missing concentration
    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
    801952675.1100-2(e)Citation
    801952575.1725(a)S&S
    801952475.512Citation
    801952375.1403S&S
    801952275.1403S&S
    801952175.1100-2(d)Citation
    801613675.1702Citation
    801616075.512Citation
    OTHER HEALTH SAMPLES8 latest shown

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

    Coal dustCONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR
    .204 mg/m³Not voided
    Coal dustCONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR
    .692 mg/m³Not voided
    Coal dustCONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR
    .616 mg/m³Not voided
    Coal dustCONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR
    .369 mg/m³Not voided
    Coal dustCONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR
    .891 mg/m³Not voided
    NoiseROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (INTAKE SIDE)
    PEL dose: 98%Action-level dose: 125%
    NoiseCONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR
    PEL dose: 168%Action-level dose: 188%
    NoiseCONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR
    PEL dose: 150%Action-level dose: 172%

    SOURCE COVERAGE

    Reporting dates and coverage

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

    DATASETROWSWINDOWSTATUS
    Accident, Injuries, and Illnessessafety · contractors173Jan 17, 2000—Jan 26, 2009mine-keyed
    Addresses of Recordidentity · logistics1Jun 25, 2009—Jun 25, 2009mine-keyed
    Assessed Violationscompliance · legal831Feb 16, 2000—Apr 20, 2009mine-keyed
    Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisionscompliance · legal105Apr 10, 2007—Dec 23, 2013mine-keyed
    Coal Dust Sampleshealth · safety742Jan 19, 2000—Mar 13, 2007mine-keyed
    Conferencescompliance · legal56Mar 8, 2001—Sep 20, 2010mine-keyed
    Contested Violationscompliance · legal100May 20, 2005—Apr 20, 2009mine-keyed
    Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterlycontractors · production · safety825Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
    Contractor Employment and Production — Yearlycontractors · production · safety190Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
    Controller and Operator Historyidentity · compliance5Aug 1, 1999—Jan 11, 2002mine-keyed
    Mine Employment and Production — Quarterlyproduction · safety · compliance83Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
    Mine Employment and Production — Yearlyproduction · safety · compliance18Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
    Inspectionssafety · compliance424Feb 13, 2000—Jun 23, 2009mine-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 · equipment73Feb 23, 2000—Feb 6, 2007mine-keyed
    Quartz Samples — Coalhealth · safety60Feb 28, 2000—Feb 5, 2007mine-keyed
    Violationscompliance · safety · legal853Feb 16, 2000—Apr 20, 2009mine-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.