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Phillips Run #1: 2 reportable incidents Coal

Controlled by Keeney Timothy A
Summersville, Nicholas County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4607791

MSHA record for Phillips Run #1 (mine ID 4607791). 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
1990–1992
Latest incident
Aug 1992
Ownership history
  1. Prosperity Energy Inc 1989 to 1992
  2. Pocahontas Resources Inc 1992 to 1993
  3. Level Land Mining Corp 1993 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Phillips Run #1 sits in Nicholas County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 6.1% 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.
Nicholas County, West Virginia · Population 24,446
6.1%
Mining share of county employment
$49,280
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

1992 · 1 incident

August 21, 1992 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Pocahontas Resources Inc · Struck against a moving object

67591TOR CLAIM BRAKE FAILURE IF OCCURRED FOREMAN OPINION OPER RIDING BRAKES & OVER HEATED WITNESS OPINION OPER WAS SICK & OPERATING IN AN INATTENDITIVE MANNER

1990 · 1 incident

April 25, 1990 WV · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Prosperity Energy Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

DOZER HUNG UP HE ATTACHED WIRE ROPE TO OTHER WAS CLIMBING OVER ROPE HE GOT CAUGHT IN BETWEEN WHEN DOZER STARTED