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Maidsville Tipple: 1 reportable incident Coal

Maidsville, Monongalia County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4603747

Maidsville Tipple has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 1985.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1985
Latest incident
Sep 1985
Ownership history
  1. Maidsville Coal Company Inc 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1989 0
1988 8
1987 6
1986 11
1985 13
1984 14
1983 18
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Maidsville Tipple sits in Monongalia County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 2.1% 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.
Monongalia County, West Virginia · Population 106,520
2.1%
Mining share of county employment
$62,704
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1985 · 1 incident

September 25, 1985 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Maidsville Coal Company Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

RADIATOR OVERHEATED ON H OUGH 100 LOADER I NAME REMOVED RADIATOR CAP WHOLE RADIITOR WAS HOT AND HOT WATER BURNED FOREARM ABOUT SIX INCHES