Mining Incidents

Fort Scott: 6 reportable incidents Coal

Garland, Bourbon County, KS  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1401116

MSHA record for Fort Scott (mine ID 1401116). 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
1983–1984
Latest incident
Sep 1984
Ownership history
  1. Susa Coal Co Inc 1950 to 1972
  2. Bills Coal Company Inc 1973 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Fort Scott sits in Bourbon County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 0.6% 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.
Bourbon County, Kansas · Population 14,384
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$67,555
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

1984 · 2 incidents

September 4, 1984 KS · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Bills Coal Company Inc · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A MOTOR MOUNTING. A BRACE OF ANGLE IRON WAS UNDER THE MOTOR AND GAVE WAY. FLEW UP AND HIT THE EMPLOYEE ON HIS ARM.

June 11, 1984 KS · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Bills Coal Company Inc · Struck by flying object

EMPL WAS HITTING PIN ON STEERING GEARS OF COAL WAGON WHEN PIECE OF STEEL CHIPPED OFF AND HIT HIM IN EYE.

1983 · 4 incidents

November 28, 1983 KS · Coal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Bills Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE WAS LIFTING AN AIR POT CYLINDER FROM THE FLOOR TO THE SWING TRANSMISSION.

September 15, 1983 KS · Coal welder (shop) MACHINERY
Bills Coal Company Inc · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING AND GRINDING ON FAIRLEAD MAST AND SLAG OR STEEL FLEW INTO HIS EYE.

September 13, 1983 KS · Coal superintendent HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Bills Coal Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING ANGLE IRON ON MAIN MACHINERY FRAME AND IT SLID OFF SPRING BOLT AND SMASHED HIS FINGER.

August 31, 1983 KS · Coal welder (shop) MACHINERY
Bills Coal Company Inc · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING ON GROUND REMOVING OVERHEAD RAIL SEGMENTS WITH AIR IMPACT WRENCH WHEN ALL BOLTS WERE REMOVED THE RAIL WAS STILL WEDGED EMPLOYEE PULLED THE RAIL LOOSE AND IT FELL AND HIT H IM IN THE LEG