Mining Incidents

Highpoint QuarryMetal/Nonmetal

Star Granite Co. · Surface
Controlled by F L (Rusty) Adams
Elberton, Elbert County, GA · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0900020
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2018–2024
Latest incident
Feb 2024
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2024 · 1 incident

Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee body discovered at approx. 7:30AM. Employee had not clocked in. Death due to suicide - see attached coroners and sheriff deputy report.

2022 · 2 incidents

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was getting out of the fuel truck and twisted knee.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was standing on the ground when picking up pin that goes into quarried block. When employee picked up the pin strained back.

2021 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was standing on scaffold which was on the ground. The cable on the crane caught the corner of the DTH drill when the scaffold was being raised. When the 4 way cables were being raised this is when the DTH drill rolled over onto employees right leg. Employee had a bruised leg from accident.

2019 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

Employee was leaning on a piece of steel, when the steel broke the jack hammer fell about two feet and landed on employee's right foot. Employee went to Elbert Industrial Medicine for treatment. Injury resulted in the foot being very bruised and swollen. Employee is on light duty work at the quarry until foot is healed.

2018 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Cut left thumb while cutting a pipe.