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Stanford Custom Prep Plant: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Stanford Energy
Dixonville, Indiana County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3603131

Stanford Custom Prep Plant has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 1983.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1983
Latest incident
Jul 1983
Ownership history
  1. Mears Coal Company Inc 1950 to 1974
  2. Mears Coal Company 1974 to 1983
  3. Stanford Mining Company 1983 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1988 3
1987 4
1986 4
1985 3
1984 9
1983 14
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Stanford Custom Prep Plant sits in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 2.4% 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.
Indiana County, Pennsylvania · Population 83,213
2.4%
Mining share of county employment
$58,739
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1983 · 1 incident

July 25, 1983 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Stanford Mining Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT WHILE LIFTING A FLIGHT FROM THE VESSEL CHAIN HE INJURED HIS LOWER BACK. ON 8/30/83 HE REPORTED TO HIS EMPLOYER THAT HE SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION ON 8/29/83 AND WAS UNABLE T O PERFORM HIS JOB.