Mining Incidents

Boynton Pit: 2 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Nagy Hugo
Palm Beach County, FL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0801077

MSHA record for Boynton Pit (mine ID 0801077). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1988–1990
Latest incident
Jan 1990
Ownership history
  1. H & R Boynton Pit Inc 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Boynton Pit sits in Palm Beach County, Florida, 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.
Palm Beach County, Florida · Population 1,507,453
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$81,115
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1990 · 1 incident

January 23, 1990 FL · Metal/Non-Metal pumper SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
H & R Boynton Pit Inc · Fall from piled material

CLIMBED UP PILE OF DIRT TO CHECK J IF MACHINE PUMPING DIRT ALRIGHT ON WAY BACK DOWN THE PILE OF DIRT SLIPPED AND TWISTED BACK

1988 · 1 incident

May 16, 1988 FL · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
H & R Boynton Pit Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

WAS WORKING ON PLANT, TAKING OFF A PART AND FELL AND HURT ANKLE AND FOOT.