Mining Incidents

Palmerton Mine Coal

Rosebud Mining Company · Underground
Controlled by J Clifford Forrest III
Black Lick, Indiana County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3609042

MSHA record for Palmerton Mine (mine ID 3609042). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Ownership history
  1. Laurel Energy, L.P. 2001 to 2003
  2. AMFIRE Mining Company LLC 2003 to 2014
  3. Rosebud Mining Company 2014 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2014 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Palmerton Mine sits in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 2.4% 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.
Indiana County, Pennsylvania · Population 83,213
2.4%
Mining share of county employment
$58,739
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2014 Q4 0 0 0

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.