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Howton Mine: 3 reportable incidents Coal

Brookwood Sand & Gravel Inc · Surface
Controlled by Mills Charles E
Cottondale, Tuscaloosa County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0102753

Howton Mine has had no fatalities among 3 reportable incidents since 1989.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1989
Latest incident
Jul 1989
Ownership history
  1. Dunn Construction Company Inc 1987 to 1992
  2. Brookwood Contractors Inc 1991 to 1991
  3. Brookwood Sand & Gravel Inc 1992 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
ⓘ Coal production is reported quarterly and lags the current period; the most recent quarters may be incomplete.
Year Employees Coal produced (tons)
1992 6 1,496
1991 8 12,950
1990 0
1989 14 62,629
1988 16 111,246
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Howton Mine sits in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, where the Census mining category is 0.9% of county employment.

Local economic context
ⓘ County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Tuscaloosa County, Alabama · Population 234,036
0.9%
Mining share of county employment
$63,947
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

1989 · 3 incidents

July 26, 1989 AL · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Dunn Construction Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OFF OF LOADER AT THE END OF THE SHIFT AND ACCIDENTALLY CLOSED THE LOADER DOOR ON HIS THUMB.

May 20, 1989 AL · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer OTHER
Dunn Construction Company Inc · Struck by flying object

WHILE OPERATING A BULLDOZER WIND BLEW SAND AND GRAVEL IN FACE.PUSHING SAND AND GRAVEL WITH BULLDOZER RECEIVED SAND AND GRAVEL IN LEFT EYE.