Mining Incidents

Mammoth Slope Coal

Woratyla Coal Company Inc · Underground
Controlled by Woratyla Andrew
Llewellyn, Schuylkill County, PA  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 3602049

MSHA record for Mammoth Slope (mine ID 3602049). 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
1986
Latest incident
Feb 1986

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
February 24, 1986 PA · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner Fatality · HOISTING
Woratyla Coal Company Inc · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

REPORTEDLY, VIC7IM WAS BEING HOISTED UP THE SLOPE AND WAS RIDING ON THE SPREADER BAR OF THE 3-TON CAPACITY GUNBOAT THE EYEWITNESS WHO WAS RIDING IN THE GUNBOAT STATED THAT THE VICTIM FELL FRO M THE SPREADER 6AR HE WAS RUN OVER BY THE GUNBOAT AND SUBSEQUENTLY FELL APPROX 260 FT DOWN THE 70 DEGREE PITCHING SLOPE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON THE SURFACE

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The full compliance file on Mammoth Slope

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.