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Mcknight Strip: 1 reportable incident Coal

Mc Knight Coal Corp · Surface
Controlled by Mc Knight Gary L
Worth Township, Butler County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3602999

MSHA record for Mcknight Strip (mine ID 3602999). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1986
Latest incident
Apr 1986
Ownership history
  1. Mc Knight Coal Corp 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Mcknight Strip sits in Butler County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Butler County, Pennsylvania · Population 195,870
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$86,775
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

1986 · 1 incident

April 29, 1986 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Mc Knight Coal Corp · Struck against a moving object

OPERATOR MOVING3TOPSOIL AND BACKED MACHINE INTO EROSION DIVERSION DITCH CAUSING MACHINE TO UPSEYT ONTO ITS SIDE OPERATOR TOSSED ABOUT IN HIS SEAT AND BRUISED A MUSCLE AND PINCHED A NERVE.