Mining Incidents

Big Rock Drift Coal

S B M Coal · Underground
Controlled by Alfred J Brown
Lincoln, Schuylkill County, PA  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 3607567

MSHA record for Big Rock Drift (mine ID 3607567). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Ownership history
  1. H & T Coal Company 1984 to 1985
  2. S B M Coal 1985 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Big Rock Drift sits in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 1.1% 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.
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania · Population 143,259
1.1%
Mining share of county employment
$66,901
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.