Mining Incidents

Premium Strip: 3 reportable incidents Coal

Controlled by James C Justice III
Devonia, Anderson County, TN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4000665

MSHA record for Premium Strip (mine ID 4000665). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1987–1990
Latest incident
Sep 1990
Ownership history
  1. Premium Coal Company Inc 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Premium Strip sits in Anderson County, Tennessee, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Anderson County, Tennessee · Population 78,175
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$63,171
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

1990 · 1 incident

1988 · 1 incident

April 14, 1988 TN · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Premium Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING SOME SLATE WHEWN HE PULLED CAUSING A BACK STRAIN.

1987 · 1 incident

August 21, 1987 TN · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Premium Coal Company Inc · Fall from machine

SLIPPED ON STEP8 CLIMBING INTO FRONT END LOADER CAUSING INJURY TO BACK AREA