Mining Incidents

No 1 Strip: 11 reportable incidents Coal

Controlled by Edna Vester; Steve Meade
Pound, Wise County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4405852

MSHA record for No 1 Strip (mine ID 4405852). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
11
Years on record
1988–1990
Latest incident
Oct 1990
Ownership history
  1. New World Mining Inc 1982 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

No 1 Strip sits in Wise County, Virginia, where the Census mining category is 5.9% 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.
Wise County, Virginia · Population 35,727
5.9%
Mining share of county employment
$50,740
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

11 on file

1990 · 2 incidents

October 9, 1990 VA · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
New World Mining Inc · Fall from machine

INJURED WAS WALKING ALONG CAT WALK OF THE HAULER WHEN HE FELL AND HURT HIS ELBOW.

March 28, 1990 VA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
New World Mining Inc · Fall from machine

STEPPPING DOWN FROM LOADER SLIPPED FELL TO GROUND TWISTED ANKLE

1989 · 7 incidents

December 7, 1989 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
New World Mining Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

I.NAME TWISTED WRIST AND HAND WHEN GETTING OFF DOZER.

August 28, 1989 VA · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
New World Mining Inc · Fall from machine

I.NAME WAS COMING OUT OF PARTS TRAILER AND HIT HIS KNEE.

May 22, 1989 VA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
New World Mining Inc · Fall onto or against objects

HE WAS STEPPING FROM LOADER TO FUEL TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED OFF THE LOADER LADDER AND HIT HIS KNEE.

April 6, 1989 VA · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
New World Mining Inc · Struck against a moving object

WAS JARRED WHEN LOADER DUMP MATERIAL IN HAULER BED

March 3, 1989 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
New World Mining Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

I NAME WAS PULLING ON PIPE WITH A WRENCH AND HURT HIS L SHOULDER AND NECK MUSCLES

February 3, 1989 VA · Coal drill operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
New World Mining Inc · Fall from machine

I.NAME WAS STEPPING OUT OF THE DRILL ON THE STEPS THE STEPS WERE WET AND I.NAME SLIPPED OFF THE STEPS AND FELL TO THE GROUND

1988 · 2 incidents

October 10, 1988 VA · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
New World Mining Inc · Struck by falling object

I.NAME WAS REPLACING BELLY PAN ON HAULER WHEN THE PAN D ROPPED DOWN ON H IS HAND INJURIED THE LEFT MIDDLE & RING FINGER

April 25, 1988 VA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
New World Mining Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

HE INJURED HIS THUMB AS HE WAS ENTERING THE LOADER BY SHUTTING THE DOOR ON IT.