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Keystone No 5 Preparation Plant: 1 reportable incident Coal

Midway, Raleigh County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4605677

MSHA record for Keystone No 5 Preparation Plant (mine ID 4605677). 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
1983
Latest incident
Mar 1983
Ownership history
  1. Affinity Mining Company 1977 to 1987
  2. Affinity Mining Company 1987 to 1998
  3. Affinity Mining Company 1998 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Keystone No 5 Preparation Plant sits in Raleigh County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 4.0% 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.
Raleigh County, West Virginia · Population 73,666
4.0%
Mining share of county employment
$52,055
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

March 21, 1983 WV · Coal car dropper, car shake out operator OTHER
Affinity Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

INJURED HAD DOUBLED BACK TO RUN A ENDLOADER HE IS AN EXPERIENCED END LOADER OPERATOR HE WAS OPERATING THE END LOADER WITH THE SIDE DOOR OPEN AND HAD HIS HAND ON THE FRAME OF THE DOOR THE WIND WAS BLOWING AT THIS TIME AND CAUGHT THE DOOR CLOSING IT ON HIS THUMB PART OF THE FIRST JOINT OF HIS LEFT THUMB WAS MASHED BAD AND HAD TO BE TAKEN OFF