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Franklin Pit: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Odell Geer
Bell County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4103811

MSHA record for Franklin Pit (mine ID 4103811). 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
1994
Latest incident
May 1994
Ownership history
  1. Odell Geer Construction Company Inc 1994 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Franklin Pit sits in Bell County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Bell County, Texas · Population 379,811
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$66,051
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

1994 · 1 incident

May 11, 1994 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator OTHER
Odell Geer Construction Company Inc · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLYEE AS A HISTORY OF HEART PROBLEMS APPROX 30 MINUTES AFTER STARTING WORK HE REPORTED TO HIS SUPERVISOR THAT HE WAS HAVING PROBLEMS & NEEDED TO SEE HIS DOC HIS DOC DIAGNOSIS WAS A LIGHT HEART ATTACK & HE HAD THE EMPLOYEE HOSPITALIZED