Mining Incidents

Cottonwood Hills Coal

Waste Management of IL · Surface
Marissa, St Clair County, IL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1103116

MSHA record for Cottonwood Hills (mine ID 1103116). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Ownership history
  1. Waste Management of IL 2003 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Cottonwood Hills sits in St. Clair County, Illinois, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
St. Clair County, Illinois · Population 254,777
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$70,178
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.