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Dante Dock: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Pittston Company
Dante, Russell County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4403282

Dante Dock has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 1994.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1994
Latest incident
Sep 1994
Ownership history
  1. Clinchfield Coal Company 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2004 0
2000 0
1999 0
1998 0
1997 0
1996 3
1995 2
1994 2
1993 2
1989 0
1988 0
1987 3
1984 0
1983 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Dante Dock sits in Russell County, Virginia, where the Census mining category is 4.5% 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.
Russell County, Virginia · Population 25,635
4.5%
Mining share of county employment
$49,020
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘ Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2004 Q2 0 0 0
2000 Q2 0 0 0
2000 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1994 · 1 incident

September 3, 1994 VA · Coal tipple/top lander/skip dumper operator, binman, topman POWERED HAULAGE
Clinchfield Coal Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

THEY WERE ATTEMPTING TO PULL A LOADED RR CAR BACK UNDER THE DUMP. HE STATED THAT I.NAME WAS GOING TO HOOK UP THE HOIST CABLE AND HE WAS BLEEDING THE AIR OFF THE RR CARS. WHERE THEY COULD HE PU LLED BACK WITH THE CAR HOIST. HE HAD KNOCKED THEAIR ON 4 OR 5 CARS. WHEN HE KNOCKED THE AIR ON AT THE NEXT CAR, AL THE RR CARS STARTED MOVING DOWN TRACK.