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Browning Coal Contracting No 1: 1 reportable incident Coal

Browning Coal Contracting Inc · Surface
Controlled by Browning Donald R
Dingess, Mingo County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4607264

Browning Coal Contracting No 1 has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 1987.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1987
Latest incident
Aug 1987
Ownership history
  1. 4-J Coal Company Inc 1987 to 1988
  2. Browning Coal Contracting Inc 1988 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)
1988 0
1987 3 1,947
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Browning Coal Contracting No 1 sits in Mingo County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 15.0% 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.
Mingo County, West Virginia · Population 22,979
15.0%
Mining share of county employment
$39,527
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

1987 · 1 incident

August 1, 1987 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
4-J Coal Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

SAID PERSON WAS3UNLOADING TIRE FROM BACK OF PICKUP TRUCK AND WHEN TIRE CAME ONTO TAILGATE, SAID PERSON LEFT INDEX FINGER BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN TIRE AND TAILGATE THUS LACERATING FINGER