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Bull Branch Surface Mine: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Pen Holdings Inc
Glenhayes, Wayne County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4607710

MSHA record for Bull Branch Surface Mine (mine ID 4607710). 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
Sep 1989
Ownership history
  1. Cub Branch Mining Inc 1989 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Bull Branch Surface Mine sits in Wayne County, West Virginia, 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.
Wayne County, West Virginia · Population 38,498
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$55,539
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

September 5, 1989 WV · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Cub Branch Mining Inc · Struck against a moving object

I NAME WAS OEPRATING A D-7 DOZER PUSHING BRUSH UP THE SLOPE TO A ROAD TO BE BURNED WHILE BACKING OVER THE BRUSH THE DOZER BECAME UNSTABLE AND TURNED ON ITS LEFT SIDE CUASING I NAME TO BRUISE H IS SHOULDER AGAINST THE SIDE OF THE CAB WE TOOK I NAME TO THE HOSPITAL FOR RP RECAUTIONARY XRAYS THE XRAYS WERE NEGATIVE AND HE WAS RELEASED