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Erie No 1: 1 reportable incident Coal

Flying A Coal Company · Facility
Controlled by Frati Attilio Jr
Mayfield, Lackawanna County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3607389

Erie No 1 has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 1983.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1983
Latest incident
Aug 1983
Ownership history
  1. Flying A Coal Company 1982 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
ⓘ Coal production is reported quarterly and lags the current period; the most recent quarters may be incomplete.
Year Employees Coal produced (tons)
1983 4 1,500
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Erie No 1 sits in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania · Population 215,834
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$64,691
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1983 · 1 incident

August 8, 1983 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Flying A Coal Company · Fall onto or against objects

WAS GETTING UP ON THE MACHINE SLIPPED & LEFT HAND STRUCK TOGGLE SWITCH ON INSTRUMENTS PANEL. VICTIM RECEIVED 5 STITCHES IN LEFT HAND.