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No 7 Strip No 7 Auger: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Amvest Corporation
Wise, Wise County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4406561

MSHA record for No 7 Strip No 7 Auger (mine ID 4406561). 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
1992
Latest incident
Feb 1992
Ownership history
  1. Glamorgan Coal Company 1990 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

No 7 Strip No 7 Auger 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

1 on file

1992 · 1 incident

February 18, 1992 VA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Glamorgan Coal Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

WHILE FUELING LOADER, EMPLOYEE PICKED UP A FUEL HOSE AND FELT A BURNING PAIN IN LOWER BACK. EMPLOYEE DID NOT GO TO DR. UNTIL 2-6-92 AND DID NOT MISS ANY WORK UNTIL 2-26-92AT 12:00 NOON.