Investigation is still going on at this time. Per preliminary report: Descending the coal haul road, victim began to lose brakes. He attempted to straddle an axle berm on his left. The truck ran up onto the berm for approximately 100' before it turned over. Victim was found partly out of the passenger side door beneath the right exaust stack. Unable to remove him until EMS arrived.
Elk Run Coal Company, LLCOperator
Controlled by Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc
MSHA Operator ID: P11051
- Fatalities
- 3
- Total incidents
- 1,000
- Mines on record
- 18
- Period
- —
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Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE2 fatalities · 83 non-fatal
- IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST1 fatality
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK253 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS217 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON129 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)97 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
1
2025
2
2024
8
2023
2
2020
1
2017
1
2016
15
2015
40
2014
57
2013
55
2012
58
2011
96
2010
100 (1f)
2009
65 (1f)
2008
69
2007
53
2006
58 (1f)
2005
71
2004
88
2003
93
2002
67
Mines on record
- Homer III ProcessingWV
- Chess ProcessingWV
- Castle MineWV
- Black Castle Mining Company, LLCWV
- White KnightWV
- Blue Pennant TransferWV
- Seng Creek PowelltonWV
- Black Knight IIWV
- Laurel AlmaWV
- Black King I North PortalWV
- Castle East PortalWV
- Castle IIWV
- Chess Surface MineWV
- Republic EnergyWV
- Roundbottom Powellton Deep MineWV
- Hunter Peerless MineWV
- Workman Creek SurfaceWV
- CHECKMATE POWELLTONWV
Fatalities under this operator
3 recordedCaught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Truck out of control, driver not wearing seatbelt, ejected & crushed.
Contact with hot objects or substances
EE was cropping the clarion level when for unknown reasons he traveled to the top of the ridge and inadvertently contacted a low pressure high volume 16 inch gas line.