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Bourg: 3 reportable incidents Coal

Walden Coal Company · Surface
Controlled by Flatiron Companies
Cowdrey, Jackson County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0503517

MSHA record for Bourg (mine ID 0503517). 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
1983–1987
Latest incident
Jun 1987
Ownership history
  1. Walden Coal Company 1980 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Bourg sits in Jackson County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Jackson County, Colorado · Population 1,422
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$41,809
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

1987 · 1 incident

June 5, 1987 CO · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Walden Coal Company · Fall from machine

HE WAS STEAM CL9ANING A SCRAPER SOME WATER SPLASHED IN H IS FACE & HE STEPPED BACKWARD FALLING TO GROUND AT THE TIME HE WAS STANDING ON THE SCRAPER FENDER STEAM CLEANING THE GOOSE-NECK HE BROK E HIS LEFT WRIS7 & BRUISED H IS LEFT HIP & LEG

1985 · 1 incident

August 26, 1985 CO · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Walden Coal Company · Struck against a moving object

TRAVELING TO FAST FOR CONDITIONS OF WATERED HAUL ROAD. LOST CONTROL AND HIT DIRT BERM CAUSING HIM TO HIT HIS HEAD

1983 · 1 incident

December 5, 1983 CO · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Walden Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

AIR BRAKES BLED OFF RELEASING MAXIE-BRAKES ON HAND.