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Elizabethtown Quarry: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Hardin County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1500114

MSHA record for Elizabethtown Quarry (mine ID 1500114). 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
Feb 1988
Ownership history
  1. Cen-Ken Stone Company Inc 1950 to 1982
  2. Vulcan Materials Company 1982 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Elizabethtown Quarry sits in Hardin County, Kentucky, 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.
Hardin County, Kentucky · Population 111,452
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$67,608
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

February 5, 1988 KY · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Vulcan Materials Company · Fall from machine

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM LOADER LADDER TO GREASE WATER PUMP STEPPED ON SMALL ROCK TURNING RT ANKLE OVER THEN FALLING BACKWARD HITTING BACK ON LARGER ROCK