Mining Incidents

D. YOUNGER PIT: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

D Younger Company · Surface
Controlled by Younger Dennis D
Riverside County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0404649

MSHA record for D. YOUNGER PIT (mine ID 0404649). 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
1988
Latest incident
Aug 1988
Ownership history
  1. D Younger Company 1983 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

D. YOUNGER PIT sits in Riverside County, California, 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.
Riverside County, California · Population 2,449,909
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$89,672
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

1988 · 1 incident

August 12, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
D Younger Company · Fall from machine

LOADER WAS STOPPED & PARKED - EMPLOYEE WAS S TEPPING OFF AND LOST FOOTING ON STEP. EMPLOYEE GRABBED FOR RAILING ON LOADER-BUT FELL (APPROX. 5' HEIGHT) TO GROUND. U