Mining Incidents

Mine No 43 Coal

Keystone, Mcdowell County, WV  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4605343

MSHA record for Mine No 43 (mine ID 4605343). 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
1985–1993
Latest incident
Aug 1993
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1993 · 1 incident

August 10, 1993 WV · Coal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler MACHINERY
Blair & Hatcher Mining Incorporaed · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

CONTINUOUS MINER WAS BEING MOVED BACKWARD, WHEN EMPLOYEE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN BOOM AND COAL RIB AT CORNER OF INTERSECTION. MINER OPERATOR DID NOT KNOW HE WAS IN AREA AT TIME OF ACCIDENT. HE WA S SUPPOSED TO BE SETTING TIMBERS TWO BREAKS AWAY.

1985 · 1 incident

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The full compliance file on Mine No 43

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.