Mining Incidents

Lobb Mining Company - Hall Job: 1 recorded fatality Coal

Lobb Mining Company · Surface
Controlled by Keystone Coal Company
Snow Shoe, Centre County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3604943

MSHA record for Lobb Mining Company - Hall Job (mine ID 3604943). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
6
Years on record
1983–1989
Latest incident
Oct 1989
Ownership history
  1. S & D Trucking Company 1974 to 1975
  2. Halfway Coal Yard Inc 1975 to 1985
  3. Lobb Mining Company 1985 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Lobb Mining Company - Hall Job sits in Centre County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Centre County, Pennsylvania · Population 158,041
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$72,748
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
April 5, 1989 PA · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Lobb Mining Company · Drowning

A COAL TRUCK APPEARED TO DRIVE OFF THE RIGHT SIDE OF A BRIDGE OVERTURNING AND LANDING ON ITS TOP IN A CREEK THE DRIVER WAS STILL IN THE CAB THE CORONER RULED DEATH BY DROWNING DRIVER EMPLOYED BY BRINK TRUCKING

Reportable incidents

5 on file (excluding fatalities above)

1989 · 2 incidents

October 19, 1989 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Lobb Mining Company · Fall from machine

WORKING ON TRANSMISSION OF CAT DOZER SLIPPED ON RIPPER SURFACE LANDED ON LEFT SIDE TWISTING BACK AND RIBS.

1988 · 1 incident

April 28, 1988 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lobb Mining Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

REPAIRING SCREENER IFTING IT UP AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN NECK AND BACK.

1985 · 1 incident

May 20, 1985 PA · Coal grader operator, roadgrader operator MACHINERY
Lobb Mining Company · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING A GRADER LEVELING OFF DIVERSION DITCHES FOR RECLAMATION FRADER RAN OUT OF FUEL AND WHEN MOTOR STOPPED HE LOST CONTROL NO BRAKES NO STEERING ETC. WHNE EMPLOYEE SAW HE WAS L OSING CONTROL HE JUMPED OFF BEFORE MACHINE STARTED MOVING FAST IN PROCESS OF JUMPING EMPLOYEE WAS INJURED HE HAS A HAIRLINE FRACTURE OF LEFT LEG RT ABOVE ANKLE AND HAIRLINE FRACTURE IN HIS LE

1983 · 1 incident

February 17, 1983 PA · Coal tipple/top lander/skip dumper operator, binman, topman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Halfway Coal Yard Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE WAS LIFTING OXYGEN BOTTLE ONTO THE WELDING TRUCK WHEN ACCIDENT OCCURRED & HE RUPTURED IN LOWER RIGHT ABDOMEN.