H & R Boynton Pit Inc · Fall from piled material
CLIMBED UP PILE OF DIRT TO CHECK J IF MACHINE PUMPING DIRT ALRIGHT ON WAY BACK DOWN THE PILE OF DIRT SLIPPED AND TWISTED BACK
Boynton Pit: 2 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal
H & R Boynton Pit Inc
· Surface
Controlled by
Nagy Hugo
Palm Beach County,
FL
·
Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0801077
Boynton Pit has had no fatalities among 2 reportable incidents since 1988.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 1988–1990
- Latest incident
- Jan 1990
Ownership history
- H & R Boynton Pit Inc 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year | Employees |
|---|---|
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1989 | 7 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1987 | 6 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.
Boynton Pit sits in Palm Beach County, Florida, where the Census mining category is 0.0% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.Palm Beach County, Florida · Population 1,507,453
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$81,115
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file1990 · 1 incident
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1988 · 1 incident
May 16, 1988
FL · Metal/Non-Metal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
H & R Boynton Pit Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface
WAS WORKING ON PLANT, TAKING OFF A PART AND FELL AND HURT ANKLE AND FOOT.