Mines in Watauga County, North Carolina
Watauga County, North Carolina has 13 mines on MSHA's register: 4 active, 9 abandoned. 20 accidents have been reported at these mines between 1983 and 2024. Inspectors have issued 177 citations.
Every mine MSHA has registered in Watauga County, working or not, with the accident, fatality and citation record each one carries on this site. Active mines are listed first, then the rest by the weight of their record.
- Mines on register
- 13
- Active
- 4
- Fatalities on record
- 0
- Citations issued
- 177
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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.Mines plot only where MSHA holds a surveyed coordinate for the site; mines the agency locates to a town, county or state centroid are in the counts and the list above but not drawn. Click a point for the mine's status and record.
| Operator | Mines | Active | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Stone Company Inc | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Boone Stone Company | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Buechel Stone Corp. | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Burns & Spangler Inc | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Horne Developers Inc | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| K & C Crushed Stone Inc | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Maymead Materials, Inc. | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| N C Dept Of Transportation-Div Of Highways | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| O J Wilson Stone Company Inc | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| O M Hampton Stone Company | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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Boone QuarryActive 0 fatal 18 citationsSurface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 3100368
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Bamboo Road QuarryActive 0 fatal 116 citationsSurface metal/non-metal · Radford Quarries of Boone, Inc. · MSHA ID 3102199
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Elk CreekActive 0 fatal 38 citationsSurface metal/non-metal · Buechel Stone Corp. · MSHA ID 3102313
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ElkActive 0 fatal 2 citationsSurface metal/non-metal · Appalachian Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 3102340
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Elk Creek QuarryAbandoned 0 fatal 0 citationsSurface metal/non-metal · Paul Coffey · MSHA ID 3100598
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J.W. Hampton RecyclingAbandoned 0 fatal 3 citationsFacility metal/non-metal · Maymead Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 3102254
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221 Road JobAbandoned 0 fatal 0 citationsSurface metal/non-metal · Burns & Spangler Inc · MSHA ID 3101905
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BAMBOO QUARRYAbandoned 0 fatal 0 citationsSurface metal/non-metal · K & C Crushed Stone Inc · MSHA ID 3101183
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Boone Quarries No 2Abandoned 0 fatal 0 citationsSurface metal/non-metal · Boone Stone Company · MSHA ID 3101609
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Elk Creek PitAbandoned 0 fatal 0 citationsSurface metal/non-metal · Horne Developers Inc · MSHA ID 3101234
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Elk Stone PitAbandoned 0 fatal 0 citationsSurface metal/non-metal · O M Hampton Stone Company · MSHA ID 3101901
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Wilson County MineAbandoned 0 fatal 0 citationsSurface metal/non-metal · N C Dept Of Transportation-Div Of Highways · MSHA ID 3100288
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Wilson QuarryAbandoned 0 fatal 0 citationsSurface metal/non-metal · O J Wilson Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 3101135
Status, type and operator are as reported to MSHA. Fatality and accident counts are MSHA's reportable accident records for the mine; citations are inspector-issued violations on record. Each mine's own page carries the full detail.
The register is MSHA's Mine Data Retrieval System: every operation ever assigned a mine ID, including ones abandoned decades ago, so the count is a history of mining in the county, not a count of working mines. A mine's county is the one its operator reported to MSHA. Fatality and accident counts start with MSHA's reportable-accident records (1983 onward); citation counts are inspector-issued violations on record. We are an independent research tool, not MSHA.