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Buck Run Screening Plant: 3 reportable incidents Coal

Heckscherville, Schuylkill County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3608342

Buck Run Screening Plant has had no fatalities among 3 reportable incidents since 1993.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1993–1995
Latest incident
Jan 1995
Ownership history
  1. Reading Anthracite Company 1992 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 3 25,446
1994 10 53,566
1993 20 34,578
1992 13 22,200
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Buck Run Screening Plant sits in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 1.1% 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.
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania · Population 143,259
1.1%
Mining share of county employment
$66,901
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

1995 · 1 incident

January 10, 1995 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Reading Anthracite Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS ADJUSTING BELTLINE WITH AN OPEN END WRENCH WHEN HE PINCHED HIS FINGER AGAINST THE FRAMEWORK

1994 · 1 incident

August 24, 1994 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Reading Anthracite Company · Struck by flying object

DOZER TRANSMISSION PRESSURE RELEASE VALVE MALFUNCTIONED CAUSIN EXCESS TRANS PRESSURE TO BLOW OUT TRANS PRESSURE GAUGE GLASS & OIL HIT OPERATOR

1993 · 1 incident