Mining Incidents

Swann's Crossing Coal

Controlled by Pat A Jones
Brookwood, Tuscaloosa County, AL  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0103436

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
11
Years on record
2011–2025
Latest incident
Jul 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2011
44
citations
21
significant & substantial
$28,389
proposed penalties
$23,089
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 59,981 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 7,018 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 35,685 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 6,998 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 6,882 1 0 145.3
2024 Q2 55,403 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 6,395 1 0 156.4
2023 Q2 4,445 7 3 1574.8
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

11 on file

2025 · 1 incident

July 23, 2025 AL · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS)
Southland Resources, Inc. · Contact with heat

Employee was working outside in the heat of the day loading holes and became light-headed and slurring their speech. Co-workers noticed a change in behavior and called 911 and medical attention was administered. employee was diagnosed with heat exhaustion and dehydration.

2023 · 1 incident

March 8, 2023 AL · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Southland Resources, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was tying in a 41 hole shot when employee experienced a pain in right groin.

2021 · 1 incident

January 28, 2021 AL · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Southland Resources, Inc. · Fall from machine

Employee stepped on the step of the powder truck to change the wiper blade, fell to the ground hurting right leg.

2013 · 2 incidents

2012 · 3 incidents

October 18, 2012 AL · Coal pumper HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Tuscaloosa Resources, Inc. · Struck against stationary object

Employee was changing the oil in rock truck. As he was removing the drain plug in the rear end, the wrench slipped & he split his knuckle on one of the other bolts. Right Index Finger Laceration.

May 8, 2012 AL · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Tuscaloosa Resources, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

While employee was performing pre-shift inspection of equipment he had climbed up truck ladder checking things. As he was coming back down the ladder, he put his foot down on uneven ground & rolled his Left Ankle falling to the ground.

March 12, 2012 AL · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Tuscaloosa Resources, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Truck Driver was bending down in preparation to hook up hoses to unload and strained back.

2011 · 3 incidents

October 7, 2011 AL · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Tuscaloosa Resources, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

While cleaning coal on a small block of coal, loader slid off hitting the bottom hard which caused employee to hurt his back.

August 13, 2011 AL · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Tuscaloosa Resources, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

While EE was operating water truck, employee said brakes would not hold & collided with 100 ton rock truck head on. Damage to water truck with no damage to rock truck. Rock truck driver sustained NO injury.

June 24, 2011 AL · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Tuscaloosa Resources, Inc. · Struck against stationary object

Stemming holes when employee struck rock with shovel and strained back.