Mining Incidents

Briartown Mine: 1 reportable incident Coal

Hickory Coal Corp · Surface
Controlled by Frank W Podpechan
Briartown, Muskogee County, OK  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3401696

MSHA record for Briartown Mine (mine ID 3401696). 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
1989
Latest incident
Dec 1989
Ownership history
  1. Hickory Coal Corp 1989 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Briartown Mine sits in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Muskogee County, Oklahoma · Population 66,471
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$51,999
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

1989 · 1 incident

December 26, 1989 OK · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hickory Coal Corp · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE PULLING CABLE FOOT SLIPPED ON DIRT CLOD & HE TWISTED KNEE 1/2/90 WAS FIRST TIME HE SAW DR & FIRST DAY OFF WORK DUE TO INJURY.