UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D. C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): May 20, 2011 (May 17, 2011)

MASSEY ENERGY COMPANY

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Delaware

1-7775

95-0740960

(State of Incorporation)

(Commission

File Number)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

4 North 4^th Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (804) 788-1800

N/A

(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report date)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Item 8.01

Other Events

On July 21, 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) was enacted. Section 1503 of the Dodd-Frank Act contains new reporting requirements regarding mine safety, including disclosing on a Current Report on Form 8-K the receipt of an imminent danger order under section 107(a) of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (the “Mine Act”) issued by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (“MSHA”).

On May 17, 2011, Marfork Coal Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Massey Energy Company (the “Company”) and the operator of the Company’s Parker Peerless mine, received an imminent danger order under section 107(a) of the Mine Act alleging the following conditions at the mine’s #2 section: (i) the rib supports are too far apart in several places; (ii) the entries and crosscut are too wide in several places due to rib rolls; (iii) the roof bolts are too far from the ribs in several places due to rib rolls; and (iv) additional repairs are required to the rib and crosscut further impacted by a rib roll. The Company is currently in the process of addressing the conditions cited in the order.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


	MASSEY ENERGY COMPANY

Date: May 20, 2011	By:	/s/ Richard R. Grinnan
		Richard R. Grinnan
		Vice President and Corporate Secretary

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