Mining Incidents

Houser Pit And Plant: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Harvey Core
St Tammany County, LA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1600370

Houser Pit And Plant has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 1983.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1983
Latest incident
Feb 1983
Ownership history
  1. Core Contracting Company Inc 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1984 0
1983 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Houser Pit And Plant sits in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, where the Census mining category is 1.7% of county employment.

Local economic context
ⓘ 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.
St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana · Population 269,331
1.7%
Mining share of county employment
$79,277
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1983 · 1 incident

February 21, 1983 LA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Core Contracting Company Inc · Fall from machine

SLIPPED WHILE STEPPING FROM LOADER & INJURED RIGHT ANKLE. BROKEN RIGHT ANKLE.