Mining Incidents

Midwest Highwall Mine No 3 Coal

Peabody Coal Company · Underground
Controlled by Hanson PLC
St Clair County, IL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1100728

MSHA record for Midwest Highwall Mine No 3 (mine ID 1100728). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Ownership history
  1. Peabody Coal Company 1950 to 1977
  2. Peabody Coal Company 1977 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Midwest Highwall Mine No 3 sits in St. Clair County, Illinois, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
St. Clair County, Illinois · Population 254,777
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$70,178
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.