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Sandy Valley Loading Facility: 4 reportable incidents Coal

Falls Creek, Clearfield County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3606935

MSHA record for Sandy Valley Loading Facility (mine ID 3606935). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
1984–1993
Latest incident
Oct 1993
Ownership history
  1. D S B Company 1980 to 1994
  2. Falls Creek Energy Company Inc 1994 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Sandy Valley Loading Facility sits in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 1.3% 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.
Clearfield County, Pennsylvania · Population 78,902
1.3%
Mining share of county employment
$60,181
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

1993 · 1 incident

October 19, 1993 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator OTHER
D S B Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE (LOADER OPERATOR) WAS FOUND SITTING IN A CHAIR IN THE SCALE HOUSE @ 8:15 A.M. SUFFERING FROM AN APPARENT HEART ATTACK. HE WAS THEN TRANSPORTED TO DUBOIS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER. AND AUTOPSY IS BEING PERFORMED. (AUTOPSY REPORT- HEART ATTACK).

1989 · 1 incident

September 18, 1989 PA · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
D S B Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

LARGE LUMPS OF COAL WERE BRIDGED ABOVE CRUSHER ROLLS IN CHUTE. OPERATOR TRYED TO BREAK THEM WITH TAMPING BAR. BAR WENT BETWEEN LUMPS, STRUCK CRUSHER ROLL, AND KICKED BACK SRIKING HIM ON SIDE OF HEAD NEAR LEFT EYE. HE RECEIVED A 1/2" CUT CORNER OF EYE AND BRUISE.

1986 · 1 incident

1984 · 1 incident

February 27, 1984 PA · Coal SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
D S B Company · Fall on save level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INJ SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE TRYING TO CLOSE HOPPER DOORS ON RAILROAD CAR USING A PRY BAR