Mining Incidents

Thunderbird Mine: 1 reportable incident Coal

Allied Minerals Inc · Facility
Controlled by Rooksby Robert T
Stonefort, Williamson County, IL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1102850

MSHA record for Thunderbird Mine (mine ID 1102850). 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
1987
Latest incident
Oct 1987
Ownership history
  1. Allied Minerals Inc 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Thunderbird Mine sits in Williamson County, Illinois, where the Census mining category is 1.2% 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.
Williamson County, Illinois · Population 66,902
1.2%
Mining share of county employment
$65,521
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

1987 · 1 incident

October 22, 1987 IL · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Allied Minerals Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE STATES3THAT WHILE LIFTING A PUMP MOTOR HIS BACK BEGAN TO HURT