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Meyersdale Preparation Plant: 2 reportable incidents Coal

Delta Coal Sales Inc · Facility
Controlled by Delta Industries Inc
Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3606048

MSHA record for Meyersdale Preparation Plant (mine ID 3606048). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1985–1986
Latest incident
Jul 1986
Ownership history
  1. Delta Coal Sales Inc 1976 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Meyersdale Preparation Plant sits in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 1.6% 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.
Somerset County, Pennsylvania · Population 73,255
1.6%
Mining share of county employment
$59,378
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1986 · 1 incident

July 9, 1986 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Delta Coal Sales Inc · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING A 175 MICHIGAN RUBBER TIRED HIGHLIFT. APPARENTLY, THE POUNDING AND JARRYING OF THE EQUIPMENT ON THE ROADWAY PLUS THE POOR CONDITION OF THE SEAT AIR SHOCKS CAUSED THE INJ URY. 3

1985 · 1 incident

September 27, 1985 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Delta Coal Sales Inc · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THAT QUICK MOVEMENT FROM RIGHT TO LEFT, CAUSED BY THE ROUGH ROAD AS WELL AS UP AND DOWN AT THE SAME TIME, HAS CAUSED THE INJURY.