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#5 Strip Mine: 2 reportable incidents Coal

Controlled by Robert E Haden
Maidsville, Monongalia County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4603068

MSHA record for #5 Strip Mine (mine ID 4603068). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1984–1989
Latest incident
Mar 1989
Ownership history
  1. Dippel & Dippel Coal Company 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

#5 Strip Mine sits in Monongalia County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 2.1% 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.
Monongalia County, West Virginia · Population 106,520
2.1%
Mining share of county employment
$62,704
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1989 · 1 incident

March 10, 1989 WV · Coal INUNDATION
Dippel & Dippel Coal Company · Accident type, without injuries

WATER ERUPTED FROM AN ABANDONED UNDERGROUND MINE SITUATE ON THE COMPANY'S PERMIT NO. S-1028-88. THE COMPANY HAD NOT DISTURBED THE AREA IN WHICH THE WATER ERUPTED AND WAS NOT WORKING ON THE JOB SITE AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT. THE GATE TO THE SITE SECURED AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT.

1984 · 1 incident

February 1, 1984 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Dippel & Dippel Coal Company · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS GREASING ENDLOADER AFTER LUNCH-BREAK, WHILE DOING THIS HE SLIPPED AND FELL OFF THE MACHINE. THERE WAS SNOW AND ICE ON GROUND, THERE COULD HAVE BEEN SOME SNOW ON HIS BOOTS WHICH C ONTRIBUTED TO ACCIDENT