Rossi Excavating Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
A NON EMPLOYEE 7OOK A RUBBER TIRE LOADER WITHOUT PERMISSION OF OPERATOR AND AS A RESULT WENT OVER AN EMBANKMENT AND WAS KILLED
Pennies Bank: 1 recorded fatality Coal
Rossi Excavating Company
· Facility
Controlled by
Leonard A Rossi
Pardeesville,
Luzerne County,
PA
·
Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3607573
MSHA record for Pennies Bank (mine ID 3607573). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 1
- Years on record
- 1986
- Latest incident
- Oct 1986
Ownership history
- Rossi Excavating Company 1984 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Pennies Bank sits in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 0.2% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.Luzerne County, Pennsylvania · Population 325,978
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$62,321
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.