Mining Incidents

Surface Mine 117: 1 reportable incident Coal

Lowlands Coal Corp · Surface
Controlled by Metec Acquisition Corp
Campbells Creek, Kanawha County, WV  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4606790

MSHA record for Surface Mine 117 (mine ID 4606790). 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
1984
Latest incident
Sep 1984
Ownership history
  1. Lowlands Coal Corp 1984 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Surface Mine 117 sits in Kanawha County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 1.9% 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.
Kanawha County, West Virginia · Population 178,198
1.9%
Mining share of county employment
$58,887
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

1984 · 1 incident

September 17, 1984 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lowlands Coal Corp · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL DRAGGING STEEL CABLE AND CUT HER HAND ON BURR.