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Fowlkes: 2 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Holloway Trucking Company Inc · Surface
Controlled by Patricia Holloway
Monroe County, MS  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2200013

MSHA record for Fowlkes (mine ID 2200013). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1983
Latest incident
Sep 1983
Ownership history
  1. Fowlkes Contracting Company Inc 1950 to 1985
  2. Holloway Trucking Company Inc 1985 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Fowlkes sits in Monroe County, Mississippi, where the Census mining category is 0.8% 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.
Monroe County, Mississippi · Population 33,928
0.8%
Mining share of county employment
$51,231
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1983 · 2 incidents

September 15, 1983 MS · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Fowlkes Contracting Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

THE OPERATOR STRAYED OFF THE BLADED AREA OF THE PIT AND RAN OVER A SOFT SPOT THE SCRAPER BOUNCED AND JAMMED HIS BACK THE LOWER PART OF HIS BACK WAS JAMMED TOGETHER AND ONE OF HIS VERTEBRAS FRA CTURED

May 11, 1983 MS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Fowlkes Contracting Company Inc · Struck by falling object

MECHANIC WAS CHANGING A TRANSMISSION VALVE ON A HD21C TRACTOR WHEN THE NEW VALVE HE WAS ABOUT TO MOUNT FELL OFF THE BACK OF THE TRACTOR ON HIS HAND HE HAD PLACED THE VALVE THERE WHILE HE WAS CLEANING THE TRACTOR