Mining Incidents

BREWSTER HIGHLANDS: 4 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Eagle Stone Inc · Surface
Controlled by Riccoboni Gildo
Putnam County, NY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3003046

MSHA record for BREWSTER HIGHLANDS (mine ID 3003046). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
1992–1996
Latest incident
Apr 1996
Ownership history
  1. Eagle Stone Inc 1992 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

BREWSTER HIGHLANDS sits in Putnam 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.
Putnam County, New York · Population 97,988
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$127,405
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

1996 · 1 incident

April 15, 1996 NY · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer OTHER
Eagle Stone Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

DOOR OF 235 EXCAVATOR SHUT, BY FORCE OF WIND, AND CAUGHT LEFT PINKY FINGER AND LEFT RING FINGER IN DOOR FRACTURING BOTH.

1994 · 1 incident

July 13, 1994 NY · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
Eagle Stone Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE OPERATING CAT 2 45 FRONT SHOVEL THE HYDRAULIC HOSE TO BOOM CYLINDER BURST THE HIGH PRESSUR E IOL BROKE RT SIDE WINDOW OF CAB SENDING GLASS FRAGMENTS INTO OPERATOR RT FOREARM & SIDE

1992 · 2 incidents

October 14, 1992 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Eagle Stone Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

WHILE CHAINING A ROCK TOO LARGE FOR THE JAW CRUSHER HIS RIGHT FOOT WAS PINCHED BETWEEN TWO OTHER ROCKS.

June 4, 1992 NY · Metal/Non-Metal OTHER
Eagle Stone Inc · Struck by flying object

APPARENTLY A ROCK CAME FROM A UNDTERMINED LOCATION, AND WANT THROUGH EE WINDSHIELD. THE MATTER IS PRESENTLY UNDER INVESTIGATION, AND RESPONSIBILITY HAS YET TO BE DETERMINED.