Mining Incidents

Lost Creek: 2 reportable incidents Coal

Carbon Hill, Walker County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103089

MSHA record for Lost Creek (mine ID 0103089). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1997–1998
Latest incident
Apr 1998
Ownership history
  1. Pocahontas Energy Inc 1997 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Lost Creek 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

2 on file

1998 · 1 incident

1997 · 1 incident

September 11, 1997 AL · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Pocahontas Energy Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE STUMBLED ON THE CATWALK OF THE CRUSHER TWISTING HIS LEFT CALF MUSCLE.