Mining Incidents

Averytown Pit: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Abston William A
Brookwood, Tuscaloosa County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0102729

MSHA record for Averytown Pit (mine ID 0102729). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1987
Latest incident
Dec 1987
Ownership history
  1. Abston Construction Company Inc 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Averytown Pit 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

1 on file

1987 · 1 incident