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Little Black Water Mine: 1 reportable incident Coal

West Energy Inc · Surface
Controlled by West Judy
Nauvoo, Walker County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0102596

MSHA record for Little Black Water Mine (mine ID 0102596). 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
1986
Latest incident
Oct 1986
Ownership history
  1. West Energy Inc 1984 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Little Black Water Mine 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

1986 · 1 incident

October 29, 1986 AL · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
West Energy Inc · Struck by flying object

LOADERS & ROCK 7RUCKS WERE WORKING APPROX 400 YDS FROM A SMALL LOADED SHOT THE BLASTING WARNING SIGNAL WAS GIVEN AND ALL THE OPERATORS WERE INGOINFORMED THE BLAST WAS SHOT ONE HOLE BLEW OUT T HROWING A ROCK 7HROUGH THE BACK WINDSHIELD OF A 475 B LOADER HITTING THE OPERATOR IN THE BACK