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Shawnee Mine: 4 reportable incidents Coal

Controlled by James F Graham
Shawnee, Perry County, OH  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3303529

MSHA record for Shawnee Mine (mine ID 3303529). 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
1983–1986
Latest incident
Feb 1986
Ownership history
  1. Shawnee Coal Company 1976 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Shawnee Mine sits in Perry County, Ohio, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Perry County, Ohio · Population 35,474
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$64,737
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

1986 · 1 incident

February 18, 1986 OH · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Shawnee Coal Company · Struck against a moving object

OPERATING WAS O1ERATING A TS24 PAN. HE CAME OUT OF PIT WITH A LOAD OF DIRT ONTO THE FILL. HE GOT TO CLOSE TO EDGE OF FILL CAUSING PAN TO ROLL ON ITS LOST SIDE. OPERATOR REPORTED HE WAS NOT INJ URED AT THAT TI4E OF ACCIDENT. DID NOT FILE FOR ANY BENEFITS UNTIL 7-17-86.

1984 · 2 incidents

October 30, 1984 OH · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Shawnee Coal Company · Struck by falling object

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO HOOK PIPE ON DOZER BLADE HE WAS HAVING TROUBLE HOOKING CHAIN WHEN OPERATOR LOWERED BLADE TOG ROUND. BLADE WAS ABOUT 5" FROM GROUND. EES LEFT FOOT WAS UNDER BLADE. THE OP ERATOR THOUGHT EE WAS IN THE CLEAR OF BLADE.

June 5, 1984 OH · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Shawnee Coal Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

REMOVED RADIATOR CAP FROM EUCLID SCRAPER TO CHECK WATER. PRESSURE FROM ENGINE CAUSED HOT STEAM TO BLOW OUT ON OPER.

1983 · 1 incident