Mining Incidents

Boone Quarries No 2 Metal/Non-Metal

Boone Stone Company · Surface
Watauga County, NC  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3101609

MSHA record for Boone Quarries No 2 (mine ID 3101609). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Ownership history
  1. Bennie Burnette 1950 to 1980
  2. Boone Stone Company 1980 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Boone Quarries No 2 sits in Watauga County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Watauga County, North Carolina · Population 54,607
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$51,367
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.