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Bull Creek Cleaning Plant: 3 reportable incidents Coal

Ashford, Boone County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4603774

MSHA record for Bull Creek Cleaning Plant (mine ID 4603774). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1983
Latest incident
Jun 1983
Ownership history
  1. Southern Appalachian Coal Company 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Bull Creek Cleaning Plant sits in Boone County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 10.1% 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.
Boone County, West Virginia · Population 21,312
10.1%
Mining share of county employment
$56,152
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

1983 · 3 incidents

June 17, 1983 WV · Coal welder (shop) HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Southern Appalachian Coal Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INJURED WAS SLIDING A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON UNDER THE SHEET METAL WHEN THE SHEET METAL SLIPPED CAUSING THE ANGLE IRON TO CATCH THE INDEX FINGER AND CUT IT

March 26, 1983 WV · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Southern Appalachian Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING FILTER SEGMENTS KNOCKING SEGMENTS LOOSE WITH SLEDGE HAMMER THE SLEDGE HAMMER GLANCED AND STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT KNEE