Mining Incidents

Big Run: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Avery Inc
Beech Creek, Clinton County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3606473

MSHA record for Big Run (mine ID 3606473). 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
1983
Latest incident
Jul 1983
Ownership history
  1. Avery Coal Company Inc 1977 to 1982
  2. Avery Coal Company Inc 1982 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Big Run sits in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, 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.
Clinton County, Pennsylvania · Population 37,707
0.9%
Mining share of county employment
$58,842
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

1983 · 1 incident

July 20, 1983 PA · Coal drill helper ELECTRICAL
Avery Coal Company Inc · Contact with electrical current

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING TO DRILL AND PLACED HAND ON OPERATORS CAB LIGHTNING STRUCK DRILL MAST WENT DOWN DRILL AND STRUCK HIM HE WAS THROWN ABOUT 4? FEET INTO THE AIR AND STARTED TO RUN THEN CRAWL ED TO HIS CAR HE WAS TAKEN TO REMOVO HOSPITAL FOR OBSERVATION