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General District - Frick Coal: 1 reportable incident Coal

United States Steel Corp
Washington, Fayette County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3600902

General District - Frick Coal 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
Sep 1983
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1986 36
1985 49
1984 65
1983 95
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

General District - Frick Coal sits in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 2.8% 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.
Fayette County, Pennsylvania · Population 126,967
2.8%
Mining share of county employment
$56,093
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

September 8, 1983 PA · Coal draftsman, surveyor/transit work supervisor STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
United States Steel Corp · Struck against stationary object

CROSSING FENCE LINE WHEN LEFT FOOT SLIPPED ONR OCK AND ANKLE TURNED OVER AS HE TRANSFERRED WEIGHT TO IT CAUSING SPRAINED ANKLE.ROCK WAS OBSCURRED BY LOW GROWING VEGETATION.