Mining Incidents

Tony Pit Coal

Varkony Mining Company · Surface
Controlled by Stephen Varkony; William M Varkony
Hopedale, Harrison County, OH  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3304091

Tony Pit has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
—
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
1
inspections on record
5
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘ This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 5 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Varkony Mining Company 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
ⓘ Coal production is reported quarterly and lags the current period; the most recent quarters may be incomplete.
Year Employees Coal produced (tons)
2000 1
1999 8 40,541
1998 8 68,447
1997 7 53,766
1996 9 69,842
1995 10 50,124
1994 10 44,036
1993 10 131,739
1992 9 56,366
1991 9 41,206
1990 8 34,520
1989 7 33,797
1988 7 52,264
1987 5 34,192
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Tony Pit sits in Harrison County, Ohio, where the Census mining category is 3.6% 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, Ohio · Population 14,408
3.6%
Mining share of county employment
$53,851
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘ Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2000 Q3 490 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 662 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 490 0 0 0.0

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.