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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-118446"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HNRG"
cik: "0000788965"
company_name: "HALLADOR ENERGY CO"
filed_at: "2025-12-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T14:59:46.046277+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hallador Energy appoints Eric Van Deman as Chief Accounting Officer and SVP

## Summary
- Effective Dec 1, 2025; Van Deman previously VP Accounting Policy at Liberty Global plc, earlier KPMG senior manager.
- Base salary $275,000, target annual bonus $75,000, and annual RSU grant valued at $100,000.
- Initial two-year RSU grant of $200,000 (subject to board approval) vesting equally in 2026 and 2027.
- No family relationships or disclosable transactions with directors or executive officers.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-118446
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HNRG
- cik: 0000788965
- company_name: HALLADOR ENERGY CO
- filed_at: 2025-12-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/788965/000110465925118446/0001104659-25-118446-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/788965/000110465925118446/hnrg-20251201x8k.htm

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