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No 1 Preparation Plant: 1 reportable incident Coal

Appalachian Fuels Inc · Facility
Controlled by Delta Industries Inc
Shanksville, Somerset County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3605728

No 1 Preparation Plant has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 1984.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1984
Latest incident
Dec 1984
Ownership history
  1. Appalachian Fuels Inc 1975 to 1980
  2. Appalachian Fuels Inc 1980 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1993 0
1992 1
1991 1
1990 2
1989 3
1988 7
1987 7
1986 7
1985 13
1984 14
1983 13
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

No 1 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

1 on file

1984 · 1 incident

December 31, 1984 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Appalachian Fuels Inc · Fall from machine

EMPL STARTED TO DISMOUNT FRONT-END LOADER,STEPPED BACK TO ALLOW DOOR TO CLOSE.STEPPED BACKWARDS MISSING TOP STEP AS WELL AS RIGHT HANDHOLD,FALLING TO GROUND LANDING ON HIS BACK.FALL WAS 8\.