Mining Incidents

Fabtech3455: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Vic DiGeronimo Jr
Smithland, Livingston County, KY  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 1519978

MSHA record for Fabtech3455 (mine ID 1519978). 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
2025
Latest incident
Oct 2025
Ownership history
  1. Independence Excavating 2025 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 10
2025 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Fabtech3455 sits in Livingston County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 2.6% 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.
Livingston County, Kentucky · Population 8,941
2.6%
Mining share of county employment
$59,713
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2026 Q2 3,218 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,781 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 2,013 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2025 · 1 incident

October 30, 2025 KY · Metal/Non-Metal master mechanic, foreman, supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Independence Excavating · Struck by falling object

The crew was working on pulling power cables getting the plant set up. When two employees were pulling cable through a hopper extension. One employee was pulling cable with their hand resting on the back of the conveyor. The hopper extension slipped out of workers causing it to fall onto the resting employees fingers lacerating their middle, ring, and pinky finger.