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Little Buck Mountain Slope: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Hutsko John M
Heckscherville, Schuylkill County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3607548

MSHA record for Little Buck Mountain Slope (mine ID 3607548). 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
1995
Latest incident
May 1995
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
1
inspections on record
2
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘ This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 2 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Mine Hill Coal Company 1984 to 1986
  2. Mine Hill Coal Company No 50 1986 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Little Buck Mountain Slope sits in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 1.1% 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.
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania · Population 143,259
1.1%
Mining share of county employment
$66,901
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

1995 · 1 incident