Mining Incidents

Doyle Pit: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Knife River Corporation
Lassen County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0401704

MSHA record for Doyle Pit (mine ID 0401704). 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
1987
Latest incident
Jun 1987
Ownership history
  1. Basic Rock Products Inc 1950 to 1979
  2. Baldwin Contracting Company Inc 1979 to 1999
  3. Baldwin Contracting Company Inc 1999 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Doyle Pit sits in Lassen County, California, 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.
Lassen County, California · Population 31,177
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$64,395
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

1987 · 1 incident

June 30, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Baldwin Contracting Company Inc · Struck by flying object

DRIVING HEAVY E0UIPMENT AND SOMETHING FLEW INTO HIS EYE, SWELLING AND BURNING WITH MUCH PAIN