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McClure #9 Operation Coal

Pioneer Equipment Rentals, Inc. · Surface

Controlled by Kim Popple

Bear Creek Township, Luzerne County, PA · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 3604969

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2017
Latest incident: Jul 2017

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2004

citations

significant & substantial

$7,092

proposed penalties

$4,200

paid to date

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA

Quarter	Hours worked	Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4	0
2025 Q3	0
2025 Q2	0
2025 Q1	0
2024 Q4	223	0.0
2024 Q3	131	0.0
2024 Q2	96	0.0
2024 Q1	20	0.0

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2017 · 1 incident

July 7, 2017 PA · Coal trespasser OTHER

Popple Const. Inc. · Unclassified, insufficient data

We have no information as the state police could not find any witnesses on accident scene. We also called the local police and they could not give us any information because it was being treated criminal matter. Trespasser on ATV collided with cable gate resulted in a fatality.