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M E Wallace Company Plant: 4 reportable incidents Coal

M E Wallace Company · Facility
Controlled by Zerbe James A
Sunbury, Northumberland County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3603258

MSHA record for M E Wallace Company Plant (mine ID 3603258). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
1984–1985
Latest incident
Oct 1985
Ownership history
  1. M E Wallace Company 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

M E Wallace Company Plant sits in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 0.6% 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.
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania · Population 90,925
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$57,948
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

1985 · 3 incidents

October 7, 1985 PA · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
M E Wallace Company · Fall down stairs

EMPLOYEE HAD TRAVELED A STAIRWAY TO THE SECOND LEVEL SEVERAL TIMES KNOWING A CROWBAR HAD BEEN PLACED ON ONE OF THE STEPS WHILE ASCENDING THE STAIRWAY HE REQUESTED ANOTHER EMPLOYEE TO REMOVE I T THE OTHER EMPLOYEE DID NOT REMOVE IT AND THE INJURED EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHILE DESCENDING THE STAIRWAY

July 19, 1985 PA · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
M E Wallace Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE FIRST INJURED HIMSELF ON 7-19-85 SHACKING 50 LB BAGS. INJURY REOCCURED ON 7-29-85.

June 26, 1985 PA · Coal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
M E Wallace Company · Fall down raise, shaft or manway

REMOVING PULLEY AND SHAFT FROM SCREW CONVEYOR PULLEY AND SHAFT SLIPPED.

1984 · 1 incident

February 23, 1984 PA · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
M E Wallace Company · Struck by falling object

MOVING EQUIPMENT OUT OF THE WAY IN PREPARATION FOR INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC MOTOR