Mining Incidents

San Juan Preparation Plant Coal

San Juan Coal Company · Facility
Waterflow, San Juan County, NM  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2901153

San Juan Preparation Plant has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
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Latest incident
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Ownership history
  1. Western Coal Company 1973 to 1981
  2. San Juan Coal Company 1981 to 1984
  3. San Juan Coal Company 1984 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1988 8
1987 12
1986 16
1985 18
1984 16
1983 16
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

San Juan Preparation Plant sits in San Juan County, New Mexico, where the Census mining category is 7.5% 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.
San Juan County, New Mexico · Population 121,178
7.5%
Mining share of county employment
$53,020
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.