Alpha Natural Resources faces a proposed $6,000 civil fine for a fatal accident at one of its West Virginia mines. The Charleston Gazette reports that the West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training cited Alpha for modifying a …
An Alpha Natural Resources subsidiary has been issued safety citations in a mechanic’s fatal fall at a West Virginia coal processing plant. The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration cited Independence Coal Co. in the May 17 death of 57-year-old …
Alpha Natural Resources has completed sealing the West Virginia mine where an explosion killed 29 workers in 2010. Alpha spokesman Ted Pile tells The Register-Herald that crews put the final concrete seal in place at the Upper Big Branch mine …