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Birchfield No 1: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Williams Robert
Pound, Wise County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4405642

Birchfield No 1 has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 1984.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1984
Latest incident
Apr 1984
Ownership history
  1. Birchfield Mining Company Inc 1981 to 1982
  2. Birchfield Mining Company Inc 1982 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
ⓘ Coal production is reported quarterly and lags the current period; the most recent quarters may be incomplete.
Year Employees Coal produced (tons)
1988 25 22,341
1987 29 94,608
1986 27 119,847
1985 25 119,090
1984 25 105,672
1983 24 104,624
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Birchfield No 1 sits in Wise County, Virginia, where the Census mining category is 5.9% 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.
Wise County, Virginia · Population 35,727
5.9%
Mining share of county employment
$50,740
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

1984 · 1 incident

April 10, 1984 VA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Birchfield Mining Company Inc · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS BLADING HAUL ROAD 5% GRADE MOTOR GRADER JUMPED OUT OF GEAR, WHEN EMPLOYEE APPLIED THE BRAKES THE BRAKES FAILED EMPLOYEE THEN JUMPED FROM THE MOTOR GRADER - HE BROKE BOTH LEGS AS A RESULT OF JUMPING FROM THE MOTOR GRADER