Mining Incidents

Lemont Strip: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Bortz George H Iii
Lemont Furnace, Fayette County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3607997

MSHA record for Lemont Strip (mine ID 3607997). 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
1988
Latest incident
Dec 1988
Ownership history
  1. Ren-Lau Coal Company 1988 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Lemont Strip 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

1988 · 1 incident

December 20, 1988 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Ren-Lau Coal Company · Fall from machine

SLIPPED AND FELL CLIMBING ONTO DOZER. FELL BACKWARDS TO THE GROUND.