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Santa Fe No 1: 3 reportable incidents Coal

Quality Coal Inc · Surface
Controlled by Phoenix Energy Inc
Pittsburg, Crawford County, KS  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1401511

MSHA record for Santa Fe No 1 (mine ID 1401511). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1989–1990
Latest incident
Oct 1990
Ownership history
  1. Quality Coal Inc 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Santa Fe No 1 sits in Crawford County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Crawford County, Kansas · Population 38,963
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$50,311
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

1990 · 2 incidents

October 2, 1990 KS · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Quality Coal Inc · Fall from machine

WHILE SERVICING HIS BULLDOZER, HE SLIPPED AND FELL ONT THE DOZER TRACKS, STRAINING HIS BACK.

September 10, 1990 KS · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Quality Coal Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE STEAM CLEANING SCRAPER HE STEPPED BACK LOST FOOTING & TWISTED STRAINED LEFT KNEE. HE WAS STANIDNG ON GROUND WET & STRAINED KNEE WITHOUT FALLING.

1989 · 1 incident

December 8, 1989 KS · Coal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Quality Coal Inc · Struck by flying object

WHILE RESOCKETING THE DRAG CABLE ON THE BE88 DRAGLINE HE WAS SEATING THE WEDGE USING A SLEDGE HAMMER.HE MISSED WITH THE HEAD ON ONE BLOW,HITTING THE HANDLE AND BREAKING IT SENDING A WOOD SPLIN TER UP CUTTING HIS NOSE REQUIRING TWO STITCHES.