Employer · WARN Act history · Other Services

Alpha Natural Resources

802 workers across 3 WARN notices, primarily in VA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.

802
Workers cut
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WARN notices
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State
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Alpha Natural Resources has 3 recorded WARN filings affecting 802 workers

According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Alpha Natural Resources has 3 recorded filings covering 802 workers across 1 state, primarily VA, the 206th-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.

Alpha Natural Resources is a minor share of Other Services WARN activity — 0.2% of the sector's 460,348 workers across 3,497 employers, ranking #62 in Other Services.

How 802 workers split by filing year

Calendar-year totals from WARN notice_date fields in this dataset, the same figures summed in the notice history below.

Alpha Natural Resources city concentration · concentrated

Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.

Clintwood & Nora accounts for 65.7% of Alpha Natural Resources's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.

Lead city Clintwood & Nora · 65.7% · 2 named cities · top-3 share 100%

DOL WARN employer filing desk

Employer ALPHA-NATURA · Alpha Natural Resources 802 workers · 3 filings

NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-HEAVY · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-EXACT · STAT-SINGLE · BOOK-SINGLE · TYPE-MIX

  • NOTC-LIGHT 3 filings
  • WORK-HEAVY #206
  • PHOTO-UNK No peer
  • RUNWAY-EXACT 60d
  • STAT-SINGLE VA
  • BOOK-SINGLE 1 agency
  • TYPE-MIX 1C/2L

Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.

Largest Alpha Natural Resources WARN filings · notice runway

Top 3 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.

  • Clintwood & Nora, VA · Closure · Other Services 527 workers · filed Sep 21, 2015 · 60d runway
  • Appalachia, VA · Layoff · Other Services 165 workers · filed Jul 8, 2015 · 60d runway
  • Appalachia, VA · Layoff · Other Services 110 workers · filed Sep 18, 2012 · 60d runway

Median forward runway across 3 dated filings: 60 days (0 under 60d · 3 at/above 60d ).

What changed - Alpha Natural Resources WARN filings by year

Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .

  • 2012 → 2015: WARN workers affected for Alpha Natural Resources rose from 110 in 2012 to 692 in 2015; notice count rose from 1 to 2.

Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2015.

Where Alpha Natural Resources Falls Among Tracked Employers

7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected

Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. Alpha Natural Resources is in the 501-1.5k bucket (#206 of 7,009 by workers affected).

Employer Profile

Primary State
VA
Primary Industry
Other Services
First Notice
Sep 18, 2012
Latest Notice
Sep 21, 2015
States with Layoffs
VA
0 workers 100 workers 200 workers 300 workers 400 workers 500 workers 600 workers 700 workers 2015 2012 692 workers 110 workers
WARN Notices by Year: Alpha Natural Resources - Workers affected per year from WARN Act filings

WARN Notice History

2015

Facility Closure

Clintwood & Nora, VA · Other Services

Effective: Nov 20, 2015

527

workers

Filed Sep 21, 2015

Mass Layoff

Appalachia, VA · Other Services

Effective: Sep 6, 2015

165

workers

Filed Jul 8, 2015

2012

Mass Layoff

Appalachia, VA · Other Services

Effective: Nov 17, 2012

110

workers

Filed Sep 18, 2012

Questions about this Alpha Natural Resources record

What is the largest Alpha Natural Resources WARN filing on record?

The largest row is the facility closure filed for Clintwood & Nora, VA on Sep 21, 2015, covering 527 workers in Other Services.

Where were Alpha Natural Resources's WARN notices filed?

The filings name Clintwood & Nora and Appalachia; together they form 1 facility closure and 2 mass-layoff filings sourced from Virginia Works. States represented in this record: VA.

Where is Alpha Natural Resources's WARN footprint concentrated by city?

Clintwood & Nora accounts for 65.7% of Alpha Natural Resources's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.

Does Alpha Natural Resources's filing history show a recurring pattern?

The filing history spans 2012 through 2015 across 2 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.

How much advance notice appears in Alpha Natural Resources's record?

The measurable notice runway lands exactly on the federal 60-day baseline; verify the source dates before treating that timing as final.

See also: VA WARN filings · Other Services industry WARNs · WARN Act guide

Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Alpha Natural Resources notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.

Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.