Mining Incidents

Stanford Custom Prep Plant: 1 reportable incident Coal

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

MSHA record for Stanford Custom Prep Plant (mine ID 3603131). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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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.

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.