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Mine No 1 Strip: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Horne Douglas N
Keokee, Lee County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4406506

MSHA record for Mine No 1 Strip (mine ID 4406506). 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
1990
Latest incident
Feb 1990
Ownership history
  1. Horne Brothers Mining Company Inc 1989 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Mine No 1 Strip sits in Lee County, Virginia, where the Census mining category is 1.9% 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.
Lee County, Virginia · Population 22,042
1.9%
Mining share of county employment
$42,269
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

1990 · 1 incident

February 12, 1990 VA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Horne Brothers Mining Company Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

EMPL ATTEMPTED TO REMOVE PLUG ON WATER PUMP. PUMP WAS NOT PUMPING PROPERLY WHEN PLUG WAS TURNEDXHOT WATER SPRAYED ON HIM CAUSING BURNS ON HIS CHEST NECK & LEFT ARM.