U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Consol Energy, Inc.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Harris wrote the opinion, in which Judge Niemeyer and Judge Traxler joined.

PAMELA HARRIS, Circuit Judge:

For 37 years, Beverly R. Butcher, Jr. worked without incident as a coal miner at the Robinson Run Mine, owned by appellant Consol Energy, Inc. But when Consol implemented a biometric hand scanner to track its employees, Butcher, a devout evangelical Christian, informed his super visors that his religious beliefs prevented him from using the system. And although Consol was providing an alternative to employees who could not use the hand scanner for…