Mining Incidents

Avondale Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Technivate, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Charles L Wilkinson
Avondale, Chester County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3609395

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2008
Latest incident
Nov 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
25
citations
9
significant & substantial
$3,017
proposed penalties
$3,017
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 38 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 0 0 0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 35 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 0 0 0
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2008 · 1 incident

November 25, 2008 PA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Technivate, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was working on the S-6 screening plant at the quarry. Stone was jamming up on one of the belts and to properly remove the material a cover needed to be removed. Employee went to place the cover on the ground, he twisted with the cover and when he twisted to lower the cover, he felt a pull in his back.