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Beaver Creek Pit: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Charles A Pinkerton III
Crawford County, MI  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2002733

MSHA record for Beaver Creek Pit (mine ID 2002733). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1985
Latest incident
Aug 1985
Ownership history
  1. Straits Aggregate Inc 1985 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Beaver Creek Pit sits in Crawford County, Michigan, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Crawford County, Michigan · Population 13,271
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$58,614
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

1985 · 1 incident

August 9, 1985 MI · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Straits Aggregate Inc · Fall from machine

INJURY TO ARM AND SHOULDER, AS WELL AS POSSIBLE INJURY TO NECK, RESULTING FROM SLIPING WHILE DISEMBARKING FROM MACHINE. INJURED PERSON SHECKED FALL BY HANGING ON TO GRAB RAIL WITH HAND OF IN INJURED ARM.