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Surface Mine No 11: 2 reportable incidents Coal

Controlled by Edward Horn
Roseann, Buchanan County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4401982

MSHA record for Surface Mine No 11 (mine ID 4401982). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1983
Latest incident
Dec 1983
Ownership history
  1. Burnrite Coal Company 1950 to 1982
  2. Horn Construction Company Inc 1982 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Surface Mine No 11 sits in Buchanan County, Virginia, where the Census mining category is 11.2% 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.
Buchanan County, Virginia · Population 19,857
11.2%
Mining share of county employment
$42,216
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1983 · 2 incidents

February 24, 1983 VA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Horn Construction Company Inc · Fall from machine

EE WAS ON LOADER & LEANED ON RAILING OF LOADER WHEN RAILING BROKE CAUSING EE TO FALL TO GROUND.