Solar #5a Coal
Solar Fuel Company-A Gulf + Western Company
· Underground
Controlled by
Gulf + Western Industries Inc
Ralphton,
Somerset County,
PA
·
Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 3606959
MSHA record for Solar #5a (mine ID 3606959). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 0
- Years on record
- —
- Latest incident
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Ownership history
- Solar Fuel Company-A Gulf + Western Company 1980 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Solar #5a sits in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 1.6% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.Somerset County, Pennsylvania · Population 73,255
1.6%
Mining share of county employment
$59,378
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.