Mining Incidents

Royal Gem #1 Surface: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Rice Carl H
Clairfield, Claiborne County, TN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4001103

MSHA record for Royal Gem #1 Surface (mine ID 4001103). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1983
Latest incident
Mar 1983
Ownership history
  1. Royal Gem Coal Company 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Royal Gem #1 Surface sits in Claiborne County, Tennessee, where the Census mining category is 1.0% 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.
Claiborne County, Tennessee · Population 32,221
1.0%
Mining share of county employment
$46,587
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

March 23, 1983 TN · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Royal Gem Coal Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE TWISTED ARM WHILE CARRYING 20LBS OF NITRATE HIS LEFT ARM RESULTED WITH A BROKEN BONE