Mining Incidents

Clifftop Cannon No 1 Surface Coal

Hawthorne Mining Corp · Surface
Controlled by Dunleavy John P
Fayette County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4605004

Clifftop Cannon No 1 Surface 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. Mc Clung Coal Company 1976 to 1977
  2. Hawthorne Mining Corp 1977 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Clifftop Cannon No 1 Surface sits in Fayette County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 3.0% 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.
Fayette County, West Virginia · Population 39,987
3.0%
Mining share of county employment
$52,672
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.