Mining Incidents

Western Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Basic Industries Inc
Hidalgo County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4103268

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1984
Latest incident
Dec 1984
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1984 · 1 incident

December 26, 1984 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
South Texas Construction Company · Struck against a moving object

HE WAS DRIVING SCRAPER HIT A BUMP ON RAMP OF STOCKPILE CAUINGF A LITLE PAIN IN STOMACH HE SAW ONE DR AND HE TOLD HIM IT WAS A SWOLLEN COLON INTESTINE BUT HE KEPT FEELING SICK SO HE SAW ANOTH DR AND HE SAID HE HAD A HERNIA ON HIS NAVAL AND NEEDS SURGERY