Mining Incidents

De Vries Pit: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by De Vries Wallace B
Kent County, MI  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2000705

MSHA record for De Vries Pit (mine ID 2000705). 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
1986
Latest incident
Apr 1986
Ownership history
  1. E De Vries & Sons Inc 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

De Vries Pit sits in Kent County, Michigan, 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.
Kent County, Michigan · Population 658,844
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$80,390
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

1986 · 1 incident

April 7, 1986 MI · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
E De Vries & Sons Inc · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

I.NAME JACKET G2T CAUGHT IN CONVEYOR ROLLER PULLING HIM INTO THE CONVEYOR AS A RESULT HE LOST HIS LEFT ARM