Mining Incidents

Beauchamp Pit & Plant: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Mark Wallis
Hot Spring County, AR  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0300404

Beauchamp Pit & 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. Malvern Gravel Company 1950 to 1979
  2. Ouachita Gravel Company Inc 1979 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1984 11
1983 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Beauchamp Pit & Plant sits in Hot Spring County, Arkansas, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Hot Spring County, Arkansas · Population 33,142
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$52,644
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 8, 1983 AR · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Ouachita Gravel Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CLEANING SCRAP IRON OFF PLATFORM.THREW LONG PIECE OF METAL ON GROUND AND STEPPED OFF PLATFORM,METAL STRUCK HIM IN LEG.