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Fearing Pit: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Beacham Mike A
Dare County, NC  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3101899

MSHA record for Fearing Pit (mine ID 3101899). 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
1985
Latest incident
May 1985
Ownership history
  1. Outer Banks Contractors Inc 1979 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Fearing Pit sits in Dare County, North Carolina, 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.
Dare County, North Carolina · Population 37,534
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$81,214
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

1985 · 1 incident

May 30, 1985 NC · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Outer Banks Contractors Inc · Fall onto or against objects

I NAME WAS GETTING OFF LOADER HE MISSED THE STEP AND HIT THE BACK OF HIS LEFT HEEL STRING ON TEH STEP IT WAS SORE BUT HE WORKED ON FOR A WEEK BEFORE SEEING DR