Mining Incidents

Prep Plant No 1: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Shultz Emmitt
Man, Logan County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4606135

Prep Plant No 1 has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 1983.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1983
Latest incident
Jan 1983
Ownership history
  1. D & G Coal Processing Company 1980 to 1981
  2. Gulf Coal Processing Corp 1981 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1983 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Prep Plant No 1 sits in Logan County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 6.6% 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.
Logan County, West Virginia · Population 31,826
6.6%
Mining share of county employment
$47,237
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1983 · 1 incident

January 4, 1983 WV · Coal car dropper, car shake out operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Gulf Coal Processing Corp · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ROPE BACK TO PULL CARS AND HOIST CABLE HURT LEFT ARM PULLED MUSCLE L ARM AND L ELBOW