awards
Award-Winning Practices
Safety Awards
Safety Awards
| Year | Subsidiary Unit | Award Description |
| 2011 | Sufco | Sufco mine was honored by MSHA with a prestigious Sentinels of Safety award for working 797,517 continuous hours without a lost-time incident in 2010. |
| 2011 | Powell Mountain Prep Plant | The Powell Mountain preparation plant was awarded with a prestigious Sentinels of Safety award from MSHA for operating three years without a single reportable safety incident. |
| 2011 | Sufco | Sufco mine was recognized by the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute as the 2010 Safety Award recipient based on its total incident rate compared to other large underground mines in an eight-state region. |
| 2011 | Black Thunder | Black Thunder was honored with the Governors Safety Award for the Best Safety Program in 2010. |
| 2011 | Arch of Wyoming | The Wyoming State Mine Inspector presented Certificates of Achievement for a 2010 Perfect Safety Record to Elk Mountain mine for working 26,909 employee hours without a lost-time incident and to Seminoe II mine for working 23,410 without a lost-time incident. |
| 2011 | Coal-Mac | Coal-Mac's Holden 22 mine was recognized by the Joseph H. Holmes Safety Association for achieving the state's best injury-incidence rate among all of West Virginia's surface/auger operations with more than 26 employees. Coal-Mac's 300 surface employees completed 599,653 hours without a medical reportable safety incident in 2010. |
| 2011 | Wolf Run | Wolf Run's Sentinel Prep Plant was recognized by the Joseph H. Holmes Safety Association for achieving West Virginia's best injury-incident rate among large facilities. Sentinel's 32 plant employees worked 70,318 hours without a medical reportable safety incident in 2010. |
| 2011 | Mountain Laurel | Mountain Laurel's Mountaineer II mine was honored with a Joseph H. Holmes Safety Association award for outstanding safety performance among underground operations in 2010. |
| 2011 | Wolf Run | Wolf Run's Imperial mine received a Joseph H. Holmes Safety Association award for outstanding safety performance among underground operations in 2010. |
| 2011 | Eastern | The Birch River surface operation was honored with a a Joseph H. Holmes Safety Association award for outstanding safety performance in 2010. |
| 2011 | Coal-Mac | Coal-Mac's surface mine was honored with a a Joseph H. Holmes Safety Association award for outstanding safety performance in 2010. |
| 2011 | Birch River Prep Plan | Eastern's Birch River Prep Plant received a Joseph H. Holmes Safety Association award for outstanding safety performance in 2010. |
| 2011 | Sentinel Prep Plant | Wolf Run's Sentinel Prep Plant received a Joseph H. Holmes Safety Association award for outstanding safety performance in 2010. |
| 2011 | West Elk | The Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety recognized West Elk mine with the 2010 Excellence in Safety Award for achieving the lowest total recordable incident rate among large underground coal mines in Colorado. This marks the second consecutive year that West Elk has been recognized as the safest underground mine in Colorado. |
| 2011 | Arch of Wyoming | MSHA honored Elk Mountain Mine and Seminoe II Mine each with Sentinels of Safety certificate for working all of 2010 without a lost-time incident. |
| 2011 | Coal-Mac | Coal-Mac's surface mine received West Virginia's top safety award - The Barton B. Lay, Jr. Milestones of Safety Award - for the best safety record among the state's surface coal mines in 2010, working nearly 600,000 hours without a medical reportable incident. |
| 2011 | Mountain Laurel | Mountain Laurel's Mountaineer II mine earned a West Virginia Guardian Award for working 754,760 hours with a total incident rate of 1.72 per 200,000 hours worked, which is three times better than the U.S. underground coal mine average. |
| 2011 | Birch River Prep Plant | West Virginia Holmes Safety Association honored Birch River Prep Plant with a Certificate of Achievement. |
| 2011 | Eastern | West Virginia Holmes Safety Association honored Birch River Surface Mine with a Certificate of Achievement. |
| 2011 | Buckhannon | West Virginia Holmes Safety Association honored Imperial Mine with a Certificate of Achievement. |
| 2011 | Sentinel Prep Plant | West Virginia Holmes Safety Association honored Sentinel Prep Plant with a Certificate of Achievement and the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Award. |
| 2011 | Buckhannon | The Imperial Mine was awarded the West Virginia Mountaineer Guardian Award for excellent safety performance in 2010. |
| 2011 | Sentinel Prep Plant | The Sentinel Prep Plant was awarded the West Virginia Mountaineer Guardian Award for excellent safety performance in 2010. |
| 2011 | Eastern | The Birch River Surface Mine was awarded the West Virginia Mountaineer Guardian Award for excellent safety performance in 2010. |
| 2011 | Eastern | The Birch River Prep Plant was awarded the West Virginia Mountaineer Guardian Award for excellent safety performance in 2010. |
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| Year | Subsidiary Unit | Award | Organization |
| 2011 | West Elk | Colorado's Senior Participant Award for proactive methods of conserving water and preventing pollution | Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment |
| 2011 | West Elk | Outstanding Reclamation Award | Colorado of Reclamation, Mining and Safety |
| 2011 | Coal-Mac | Greenlands Award | West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection |
| 2011 | Coal-Mac | South Surface Award for exemplary post-mining land use on its Phoenix surface mine | West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection |
For a complete list of environmental awards, please click here.