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Mount Jessup Coal Company, Ltd.
Mount Jessup No. 1 Mine Roof Fall Disaster
Jessup, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
December 8, 1923
No. Killed - 5
USBM Final Investigation Report
The cave-in occurred on Saturday afternoon in what is known as the Grassy vein of No. 1 mine where 30 men were robbing pillars. Four men working in another section, and the mine foreman who tried to warn them, were trapped inside the mine.
The deceased:
Eben Jones, 30
Joseph Kahoot, 31
Michael Nevells, 42
Mike Sovack, 33
Frank Stavoniak, 32
Source:
Pennsylvania Anthracite Mine Accidents, 1914-1923
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