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Silver Fox Surface Mine: 2 reportable incidents Coal

Paramont Coal Corp · Surface
Controlled by Pittston Company
Dante, Dickenson County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4406870

MSHA record for Silver Fox Surface Mine (mine ID 4406870). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1997
Latest incident
Dec 1997
Ownership history
  1. Paramont Coal Corp 1997 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Silver Fox Surface Mine sits in Dickenson County, Virginia, where the Census mining category is 9.8% 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.
Dickenson County, Virginia · Population 13,920
9.8%
Mining share of county employment
$43,831
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1997 · 2 incidents

December 8, 1997 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Paramont Coal Corp · Struck against a moving object

THIS ALLEGED ACC. HAPPENED ON 12-8-97, WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING ROCK WITH A DRON DOZER, BLADES OF DOZER CLIMBED ROCK, RAISING DOZEER OFF OF GROUND, DOZER CAME DOWN ADN JARRED EMPLLOYEE THUS A LLEGELLY HURTING HIS BACK WHICH CAUSED A HERNIATED DISC, AND JARRED EMPLOYEE THUS ALLEGELLY HURTING HIS BACK WHICH CAUSED A HERNIATED DISC, NUMBNESS IN RIGHT LEG AND RIGHT FOOT. THIS ALLEGED

June 24, 1997 VA · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Paramont Coal Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO RAISE CRUSHER LID WITH A DIRT SHOVEL SHOVEL SLIPPED AND MASHED AUGER BETWEEN HANDRAIL AND SHOVEL HANDLE.