Mining Incidents

Warco Pit #3: 2 reportable incidents Coal

Apex Coal Corp · Surface
Controlled by Williams Jerry W
Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0102671

MSHA record for Warco Pit #3 (mine ID 0102671). 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
1987–1993
Latest incident
Feb 1993
Ownership history
  1. Apex Coal Corp 1986 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Warco Pit #3 sits in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, where the Census mining category is 0.9% 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.
Tuscaloosa County, Alabama · Population 234,036
0.9%
Mining share of county employment
$63,947
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

1993 · 1 incident

February 18, 1993 AL · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Apex Coal Corp · Struck against a moving object

DRIVER LOST CONTROL OF TRUCK & TURNED OVER

1987 · 1 incident

September 18, 1987 AL · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Apex Coal Corp · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

2 MEN WERE REMO5ING THE CUTTING EDGES FROM A DOZER WHEN A WRENCH SLIPPED AND CUT THE LEFT INDEX FINGER OF ONE OF THE MEN.