Floit Sand & Gravel Company · Accident type, without injuries
DRILLING WEST F5CE DRILLED INTO MISFIRED CAVITY CAUSING UNPLANNED DETONATION OF EXPLOSIVES.
Floit Mine: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal
Floit Sand & Gravel Company
· Underground
Controlled by
Roy Floit
De Kalb County,
IL
·
Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1102859
Floit Mine has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 1987.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 1
- Years on record
- 1987
- Latest incident
- Sep 1987
Ownership history
- Floit Sand & Gravel Company 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year | Employees |
|---|---|
| 1988 | 0 |
| 1987 | 9 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.
Floit Mine sits in DeKalb County, Illinois, where the Census mining category is 0.1% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.DeKalb County, Illinois · Population 100,512
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$69,022
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.