Mining Incidents

Breara Strips Coal

Breara Energies Inc · Surface
Controlled by Altmire Harold L Jr
West Sunbury, Butler County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3608390

Breara Strips has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
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Latest incident
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Ownership history
  1. Breara Energies Inc 1993 to 1994
  2. Breara Energies Inc 1994 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)
1995 4 6,357
1994 4 12,611
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Breara Strips sits in Butler County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Butler County, Pennsylvania · Population 195,870
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$86,775
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.