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Dredge Avocet: 3 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Dravo Corp
Orleans County, LA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1600464

Dredge Avocet has had no fatalities among 3 reportable incidents since 1984.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1984–1989
Latest incident
Sep 1989
Ownership history
  1. Radcliff Materials Inc 1950 to 1979
  2. Dravo Basic Materials Company Inc 1979 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1990 13
1989 20
1988 13
1987 24
1986 20
1985 17
1984 17
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Dredge Avocet sits in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Orleans Parish, Louisiana · Population 376,035
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$55,339
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

1989 · 1 incident

1987 · 1 incident

February 3, 1987 LA · Metal/Non-Metal SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Dravo Basic Materials Company Inc · Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE SLIPPE8 ON 2 3 87. DID NOT WANT TO SEE DR. SAW PERSONAL DR ON 12 1 87 BECAUSE BACK HURT GIVEN MEDICAL SLIP FO NO LIFTING ON 12 1 87 SAW CO DR ON 12 9 87. SAW CO SPECIALIST 12 22 87 AN D AGAIN ON 1 22388 AND WAS SENT HOME WILL GO TO HOSPITAL 2 1 88.

1984 · 1 incident