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Russellton Mine: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by William B Spence
Russellton, Allegheny County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3608425

MSHA record for Russellton Mine (mine ID 3608425). 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
1997
Latest incident
Apr 1997
Ownership history
  1. Allegheny Valley Resources Inc 1993 to 1994
  2. Allegheny Valley Resources Inc 1994 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Russellton Mine sits in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 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.
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania · Population 1,240,476
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$76,393
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

1997 · 1 incident

April 10, 1997 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Allegheny Valley Resources Inc · Fall from machine

EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN LOADER STEPS WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL TO THE GROUND. LOST WORK TIME DID NOT OCCUR UNTIL 4-20-97.