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1920 Alabama coal strike, a lengthy, violent, expensive and fruitless attempt to achieve union recognition in the coal mines around Birmingham left 16 men dead; one black man was lynched. 1922 UMW General coal strike, On April 1, 1922, 610,000 mine workers struck nationwide, shutting down the majority of operations within the country.
From the 1960s to the late 1980s, the company employed nearly 1,000 people in southeastern Ohio, [4] producing up to 1.7 million tons of coal annually. [5] Today, it is still one of the major employers in Morgan County, Ohio, [6] although its high-sulfur coal now spurs little demand. [7]
The following table lists the coal mines in the United States that produced at least 4,000,000 short tons of coal.. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), there were 853 coal mines in the U.S. in 2015, producing a total of 896,941,000 short tons of coal.
US employment in coal mining peaked in 1923, when there were 863,000 coal miners. [45] Since then, mechanization has greatly improved productivity in coal mining, so that employment has declined at the same time coal production increased. The average number of coal mining employees declined to 41,600 in 2020. [1]
Train carrying mined coal through Ashtabula. Ohio has an estimated 11 billion short tons of recoverable coal resources. Ohio is ranked #7 in the country in overall coal reserves, with 23 billion short tons, 11 billion of which is recoverable. [49] In 2008, the state mined 26 million short tons of coal, ranking #11 in the country in production. [50]
The first electric mine locomotive produced by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, in 1888. The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, was an American industrial equipment manufacturing company, at one time the largest producer of coal cutting machines and mining locomotives in the world.