Mining Incidents

Francis Smith & Souder Pit: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Jonathan Schilowitz
Warfordsburg, Fulton County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3603186

MSHA record for Francis Smith & Souder Pit (mine ID 3603186). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1984
Latest incident
Feb 1984
Ownership history
  1. H B Mellott Estate Inc 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Francis Smith & Souder Pit sits in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, 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.
Fulton County, Pennsylvania · Population 14,545
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$64,798
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

1984 · 1 incident

February 2, 1984 PA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
H B Mellott Estate Inc · Fall from machine

EMP WAS SERVICING 988-B CAT LOADER, AS EMPLOYEE STEPPED OFF LADDER, HE SLIPPED ONICE, TWISTING ANKLE