Mining Incidents

Dunn Hollow Surface Mine: 6 reportable incidents Coal

Pen Mining Company · Surface
Controlled by Hostetter James
London, Kanawha County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4607268

MSHA record for Dunn Hollow Surface Mine (mine ID 4607268). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
1987–1991
Latest incident
Mar 1991
Ownership history
  1. Pen Mining Company 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Dunn Hollow Surface Mine sits in Kanawha County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 1.9% 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.
Kanawha County, West Virginia · Population 178,198
1.9%
Mining share of county employment
$58,887
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

1991 · 1 incident

March 21, 1991 WV · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey MACHINERY
Pen Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

MECHANIC WAS WORKING ON STEAMJENNY AND OTHER WAS HOLDING THE NOZZLE. EE WAS STANDING BESIDE OTHER OBSERVING THE WORK ACTICITY WHEN OTHER ADJUSTED THE WATER PRESSURE AND THE WATER CAME OUT WITH SUCK AND FORCE THAT THE NOZZLE FLEW UP AND HIT IN THE FACE.

1990 · 1 incident

March 14, 1990 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Pen Mining Company · Struck against a moving object

AXLE CAME OTU FROM UNDER TRAILER, CAUSING THE TRACTOR TRAILER TO TURN OVER.

1989 · 2 incidents

January 27, 1989 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Pen Mining Company · Fall from machine

CROSSING FROM THE HOOD TO THE CATWALK ON THE ROCK TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL. WHEN HE FELL HE CUT HIS ELBOW AND KNEE.

January 6, 1989 WV · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Pen Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

I STEPPED OUT OF THE COMPANY PICKUP TRUCK AND TWISTED MY BACK.

1988 · 1 incident

August 23, 1988 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Pen Mining Company · Fall from machine

I,NAME, DRIVER OF COAL TRUCK BELONGING TO MET TRANSPORT INC WAS IN THE PROCESS OF TIGHTENING ALUG NUT ON THE REAR WHEEL OF A DM800 COAL TRUCK WHEN THE WRENCH BROKE, CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BAL ANCE AND FALL. WHEN HE FELL, HE LANDED ON HIS ANKLE.

1987 · 1 incident

June 25, 1987 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Pen Mining Company · Struck against a moving object

I NAME STATES: 7HAT WHILE MOVING A HEAVY BOULDER WITH THE LOADER,IT SLIPPED OUT OF THE BUCKET AND THREW HIM AROUND.