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Buffalo Hollow: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by William E Witaker
Doniphan County, KS  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1400163

MSHA record for Buffalo Hollow (mine ID 1400163). 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
1983
Latest incident
Jan 1983
Ownership history
  1. West Lake Quarry & Material Company 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Buffalo Hollow sits in Doniphan County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Doniphan County, Kansas · Population 7,492
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$72,833
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

1983 · 1 incident

January 3, 1983 KS · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
West Lake Quarry & Material Company · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OFF OF A HI-LIFT HIS FOOT SLIPPED IN THE MUD AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND HITTING HIS RIGHT WRIST ON SOMETHING AND CRACKED A BONE.