Mining Incidents

No 5 Mine: 2 reportable incidents Coal

Little Mountain Coal Inc · Underground
Controlled by Baker Ralph
St Charles, Lee County, VA  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4406341

MSHA record for No 5 Mine (mine ID 4406341). 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
1986
Latest incident
Dec 1986
Ownership history
  1. Little Mountain Coal Inc 1986 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

No 5 Mine 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

2 on file

1986 · 2 incidents

March 26, 1986 VA · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner POWERED HAULAGE
Little Mountain Coal Inc · Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects

FEEDING BELT TH9U BELT DRIVE BELT OVER LAPPED CATCHING LEFT HAND & WRIST. PUILLED LEFT HAND & WRIST INTO SIDE OF BELTDRIVE.