Mining Incidents

Lykens #6 Mine Coal

Kintzel Coal Company · Underground
Controlled by Kintzel Stephen
Lincoln, Schuylkill County, PA  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 3601886

MSHA record for Lykens #6 Mine (mine ID 3601886). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1985
Latest incident
Jun 1985

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
June 21, 1985 PA · Coal superintendent Fatality · INUNDATION
Kintzel Coal Company · Struck against stationary object

UNCHARTED WORKINGS WHICH WERE FLOODED WITH WATER BROKE INTO #12 CHUTE THIS CARRIED ITS VICTIM APPROX 250 FT DOWN THE CHUTEB WITH MINE TIMBER ROCKS COAL AND DEBRIS VERY MUCH FORCE THEN IT WASH ED HIM APPROX 100 FT OUT THE GANGWAY TO WHERE HIS BODY WAS FOUND THE GANGWAY HAD APPROX 120 ONS TO COAL ROCK ETC WASHED INTO IT

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