Mining Incidents

Lifes Run: 1 recorded fatality Coal

Use Coal Inc · Surface
Controlled by Shepler Thomas
Lost Creek, Harrison County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4604481

MSHA record for Lifes Run (mine ID 4604481). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1985
Latest incident
Jul 1985
Ownership history
  1. Ynr Coal Company Inc 1975 to 1987
  2. Use Coal Inc 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Lifes Run sits in Harrison County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 2.9% 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.
Harrison County, West Virginia · Population 65,407
2.9%
Mining share of county employment
$58,326
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
July 23, 1985 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Ynr Coal Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

AN END LOADER WAS BEING USED TO TOW A ROCK TRUCK DOWNGRADE THE TRUCK JACK KNIFED CAUSING THE LOADER TO OVERTURN