Leaders in Mine Safety Honored by NMA

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Mining Association (NMA) will today honor outstanding achievements in mine safety with the Sentinels of Safety Awards.

The NMA's Sentinels of Safety Award recognizes coal and mineral mining operations in 10 categories for recording the most hours in a calendar year without a single lost-time injury. A minimum of 4,000 hours is required for award consideration. The award categories reflect the safety accomplishments of both small and large mines.

Twenty American mining operations - six coal mines and 14 mineral/metal mines - will be honored for their extraordinary safety performance in 2024.

"Every day in mining begins and ends with safety, and it's top of mind in everything we do-from equipment operation all the way to team meetings," said Rich Nolan, NMA president and CEO. "As mineral, material and power demand all grow to feed materials and power-hungry manufacturing lines and data centers, safe, modern, domestic mines will ensure our supply chains are secure and the power keeps flowing."

Initiated in 1923 by then Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, a former mining engineer, the Sentinels of Safety Award program remains the nation's most prestigious recognition of mine safety and has helped foster a strong safety commitment on the part of U.S. mines.

Note: all recipients marked with an asterisk* are members of the NMA.

Recipients for 2024 include the following:

Large Group Category

• Large Coal Processing, Cumberland Mine, Iron Senergy*, Waynesburg, Penn.
• Large Underground Metal, Cortez District-Underground, Nevada Gold Mines LLC*, Crescent Valley, Nev.
• Large Surface Coal, Antelope Coal Mine, Navajo Transitional Energy Company, LLC*, Douglas, Wyo.
• Large Metal/Nonmetal Mill, Tilden Mine, Tilden Mining Company, LC, Ishpeming, Mich.
• Large Bank or Pit, Atlas 874/115 Mine, Atlas Energy Solutions, Kermit, Texas
• Large Dredge, DTM GEN6 Proppants, LLC, DTM Louisiana Gathering, LLC, Mansfield, La.
• Large Open Pit, Robinson Operation, Robinson Nevada Mining Company, Ruth, Nev.
• Large Quarry, Pennsuco Quarry, Titan America, Medley, Fla.
• Large Underground Coal, Skyline Mine #3, Canyon Fuel Company LLC, Scotfield, Utah
• Large Underground Nonmetal, Cayuga Mine, Cargill Deicing Solutions, Lansing, N.Y.

Small Group Category

• Small Underground Metal, Middle Tennessee Mines, Gordonsville Mine, Nyrstar*, Gordonsville, Tenn.
• Small Open Pit, East Ridge Plant & Gieseke Plant, Kyanite Mining Corp*, Dillwyn, Va.
• Small Bank or Pit, Northern Portable Plant #12, Martin Marietta Materials, Ft. Collins, Colo.
• Small Coal Processing, Huff Preparation Plant, Northstar Operating Company, LLC, Kimper, Ky.
• Small Dredge, Portable Sand Plant, River Products Company Inc., Riverside, Iowa
• Small Metal/Nonmetal Mill, Stadium West Quarry, Capital Quarries Company INC, Jefferson City, Mo.
• Small Quarry, Ogden Plant, Dolomite Group, Ogden, N.Y.
• Small Surface Coal, Barrackville Refuse Pile, LP Mineral, LLC, Barrackville, W.Va.
• Small Underground Coal, Cherry Tree Mine, Rosebud Mining Company, Cherry Tree, Penn.
• Small Underground Nonmetal, Chesney Underground, Carmeuse Lime & Stone, Luttrell, Tenn.

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