Mining Incidents

Chieftain #1 Coal

Chieftain Development Company Inc · Facility
Controlled by Shepler Thomas
P O Box 2248 Clarksburg, Harrison County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4605494

Chieftain #1 has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
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Latest incident
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Ownership history
  1. Tanstaafl Inc 1977 to 1981
  2. Asco Coal Inc 1981 to 1982
  3. Chieftain Development Company Inc 1982 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1992 0
1991 0
1990 0
1989 10
1988 11
1987 12
1986 12
1985 11
1984 11
1983 10
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Chieftain #1 sits in Harrison County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 2.9% 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.
Harrison County, West Virginia · Population 65,407
2.9%
Mining share of county employment
$58,326
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.