Mining Incidents

Simco No 4 Mine Coal

Peabody Coal Company · Underground
Controlled by Hanson PLC
Coshocton County, OH  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3301156

MSHA sampling at Simco No 4 Mine shows 100% of 1 respirable coal dust samples met the 1.5 mg/m3 standard, plus the mine's fatality, citation, and penalty record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident

MSHA sampling at Simco No 4 Mine shows 100% of 1 respirable coal dust samples met the 1.5 mg/m3 standard.

Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Respirable coal dust
Respirable coal dust and silica figures cover coal facilities. Dust compliance is measured against the current 1.5 mg/m3 standard; samples predating the 2014 standard are included, so compliance rates are a coarse historical signal.

Last sampled: 2012-09-10, 14 years ago
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
1
samples
0.24
dust max (mg/m3)
1 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 0 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (INTAKE SIDE)1
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Simco-Peabody Coal Company 1950 to 1977
  2. Peabody Coal Company 1977 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Simco No 4 Mine sits in Coshocton County, Ohio, where the Census mining category is 0.9% 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.
Coshocton County, Ohio · Population 36,679
0.9%
Mining share of county employment
$54,687
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.