Mining Incidents

Brill Mine: 2 reportable incidents Coal

Controlled by Darrell G Spencer
Ridgway, Elk County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3606742

MSHA record for Brill Mine (mine ID 3606742). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1992–1993
Latest incident
May 1993
Ownership history
  1. Hepburnia Coal Company Inc 1978 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Brill Mine sits in Elk 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.
Elk County, Pennsylvania · Population 30,703
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$64,103
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1993 · 1 incident

May 17, 1993 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hepburnia Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

NOT REPORTABLE AT TIME OF ACCIDENT: EMPLOYEE DID NOT SEEK ANY MEDICAL ATTENTION AT TIME OF ACCIDENT-MEDICAL ATTENTION WAS NOT REQUIRED UNTIL 6/7/93. AT TIME OF ACCIDENT, EMPLOYEE WAS (STARTING SHIFT) GETTING ON A 988B LOADER ON THE CODER JOB.

1992 · 1 incident