Mining Incidents

Orchard Slope Coal

New Way Coal Company · Underground
Controlled by Smith Darvin C--Allen R Kramer
Locustdale, Columbia County, PA  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 3606696

Orchard Slope has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
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Latest incident
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Ownership history
  1. New Way Coal Company 1978 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1985 0
1984 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Orchard Slope sits in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Columbia County, Pennsylvania · Population 65,055
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$61,992
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.