Mining Incidents

Sunshine Mine Coal

Sunshine Properties Inc · Facility
Controlled by Small J Tom
Nutter Fort, Harrison County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4606810

MSHA record for Sunshine Mine (mine ID 4606810). 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
Ownership history
  1. Sunshine Properties Inc 1984 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Sunshine Mine sits in Harrison County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 2.9% 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.
Harrison County, West Virginia · Population 65,407
2.9%
Mining share of county employment
$58,326
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.