Mining Incidents

Blessinger Mine: 3 reportable incidents Coal

United Minerals Inc · Surface
Controlled by Greg Olinger
Loogootee, Monroe County, IN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1201971

MSHA record for Blessinger Mine (mine ID 1201971). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1987–1988
Latest incident
Oct 1988
Ownership history
  1. United Minerals Inc 1985 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Blessinger Mine sits in Monroe County, Indiana, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Monroe County, Indiana · Population 139,822
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$63,372
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

1988 · 1 incident

October 17, 1988 IN · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
United Minerals Inc · Struck by falling object

HOOKING A DRAINAGE PIPE TO LOADER BUCKET WITH LIFTING CHAIN SLIPPED AND FELL ONTO FOOT.

1987 · 2 incidents

December 15, 1987 IN · Coal loader head operator, roscoe operator OTHER
United Minerals Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

STRONG WIND BLO4ING OPERATOR WAS UNABLE TO HOLD DOOR WHEN MACHINE DOOR BLEW CLOSED ON HIS HAND.