Mining Incidents

Wood Coal Company Mine #2 Coal

Wood Coal Company · Surface
Controlled by Wood Junior
Rich Hill, Bates County, MO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2301998

Wood Coal Company Mine #2 has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
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Latest incident
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Ownership history
  1. Junior Wood 1988 to 1996
  2. Continental Coal Inc 1996 to 1997
  3. Wood Coal Company 1997 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)
1998 1 38,529
1997 2 4,977
1996 10 197,179
1994 3 15,508
1993 4 11,221
1989 0
1988 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Wood Coal Company Mine #2 sits in Bates County, Missouri, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Bates County, Missouri · Population 16,121
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$57,914
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

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.