Mining Incidents

Hope-Galloway-Saragossa Prospect: 1 reportable incident Coal

Carbon Hill, Walker County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0100723

MSHA record for Hope-Galloway-Saragossa Prospect (mine ID 0100723). 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
Aug 1984
Ownership history
  1. Cobb Coal Company 1950 to 1981
  2. Cobb Coal Company Inc 1981 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Hope-Galloway-Saragossa Prospect sits in Walker County, Alabama, where the Census mining category is 3.3% 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.
Walker County, Alabama · Population 64,886
3.3%
Mining share of county employment
$54,509
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

August 9, 1984 AL · Coal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cobb Coal Company Inc · Fall from ladders

LADDER THAT HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM THE DRAGLINE BROKE.