Mining Incidents

Big John Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Empire Emery Mining Corp · Surface
Controlled by Leardi John
Westchester County, NY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3001710

Big John Mine has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
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Latest incident
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Ownership history
  1. Ernest Bates 1950 to 1979
  2. Emeri-Crete Inc 1979 to 1984
  3. Empire Emery Mining Corp 1984 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1989 0
1988 1
1987 1
1986 1
1985 1
1984 1
1983 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Big John Mine sits in Westchester County, New York, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Westchester County, New York · Population 996,888
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$118,411
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.