Mining Incidents

No 2 Mine: 1 reportable incident Coal

B & W Coal Company Inc · Underground
Controlled by Bunch Jo Anne
Wartburg, Morgan County, TN  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4002435

MSHA record for No 2 Mine (mine ID 4002435). 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
1983
Latest incident
Apr 1983
Ownership history
  1. B & W Coal Company Inc 1978 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

No 2 Mine sits in Morgan County, Tennessee, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Morgan County, Tennessee · Population 21,193
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$57,408
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

1983 · 1 incident

April 11, 1983 TN · Coal INUNDATION
B & W Coal Company Inc · Accident type, without injuries

WHILE JERRY HAMBY CUTTING MACHINE OPERATOR WAS SUMPING THE CUTTER BAR INTO THE FACE OF THE NO 2 ENTRY WATER STARTED DOMING IN AT A FAST RATE CAUSING INUNDATION OF THE NO 2 AND NO 3 ENTRIES