Mining Incidents

Luciusboro Mine: 3 reportable incidents Coal

Controlled by John M Lee
Homer City, Indiana County, PA  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 3607687

MSHA record for Luciusboro Mine (mine ID 3607687). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1988–1996
Latest incident
May 1996
Ownership history
  1. Marquise Mining Corp 1985 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Luciusboro Mine sits in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 2.4% 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.
Indiana County, Pennsylvania · Population 83,213
2.4%
Mining share of county employment
$58,739
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

1996 · 1 incident

May 11, 1996 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Marquise Mining Corp · Fall from machine

HE WAS CLIMBING OFF OF THE CAT D-9H DOZER. HE HAD HOLD OF THE HAND RAIL AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELL. WHEN HIS EIGHT CAME DOWN ON HIS ARM, THE ARM BROKE LEFT AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND.

1989 · 1 incident

March 2, 1989 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Marquise Mining Corp · Struck by falling object

I NAME REMOVED HOLDING BOLTS ON CUTTING EDGE OF BULLDOZER BLADE WHILE CHANING CUTTING EDGE WHEN ALL WERE REMOVED I NAME ATTEMPTED TO MOVE BOLTS FROM UNDER EDGES WHEN REACHING THE CORNER EDGE F ELL FROM BLADE ;HITTING RT INDEX FINGER.

1988 · 1 incident

August 11, 1988 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Marquise Mining Corp · Struck by falling object

EMPL WAS LIFTING CUTTING EDGE FOR BLADE OF DOZPED OUT OF HIS HAND & HIT HIS LEFT FOOT BEHIND HIS SAFETY SHOES CUASING COMPOUND FRACTURE.