Mining Incidents

Coy Stone Plant: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Asarco Inc
Jefferson County, TN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4002305

MSHA record for Coy Stone Plant (mine ID 4002305). 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
1989
Latest incident
Jan 1989
Ownership history
  1. American Limestone Company Inc 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Coy Stone Plant sits in Jefferson County, Tennessee, where the Census mining category is 0.8% 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.
Jefferson County, Tennessee · Population 55,835
0.8%
Mining share of county employment
$63,084
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

1989 · 1 incident

January 25, 1989 TN · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
American Limestone Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE WORKING ON A BRAKE POT,EMPLOYEE MASHED HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER WITH A 2-LB HAMMER.