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Utah's safest

ARCH Coal subsidiary Canyon Fuel Company's Sufco mine and Dugout Canyon's Castle Valley preparati...

Noel Dyson
Utah's safest

Sufco was named 2012 safe operator of the year among underground coal mines and Dugout Canyon’s Castle Valley prep plant won the 2012 safe coal processing facility title.

In 2012 Sufco employees worked 593,557 hours with a total incident rate of zero, compared to the national underground average of 5.05 incidents per 200,000 employee hours.

Dugout Canyon’s Castle Valley prep plant has operated incident free for more than six years straight.

Canyon Fuel Company is Utah’s largest coal producer and, with a workforce of 700, is one of the state’s largest employers.

It operates the Dugout Canyon, Skyline and Sufco mines.

Arch recently announced a definitive agreement to sell Canyon to Bowie Resources in a $435 million transaction that is expected to be completed in the third quarter.

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