Mining Incidents

Hazleton Shaft Brk & Cleaning Plt: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Pagnotti Enterprises Inc
Hazleton, Luzerne County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3602883

MSHA record for Hazleton Shaft Brk & Cleaning Plt (mine ID 3602883). 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
Jul 1984
Ownership history
  1. Jeddo-Highland Coal Company 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Hazleton Shaft Brk & Cleaning Plt sits in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania · Population 325,978
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$62,321
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

July 21, 1984 PA · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HURT BACK CRAWLING IN BAY UNDER SHAKER DOING REPAIR WORK