Mining Incidents

Fuhrmann Pit: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Kory Keller
Gillespie County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4103256

MSHA record for Fuhrmann Pit (mine ID 4103256). 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
1988
Latest incident
May 1988
Ownership history
  1. Allen Keller Company 1984 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Fuhrmann Pit sits in Gillespie County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Gillespie County, Texas · Population 27,202
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$67,799
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

1988 · 1 incident

May 18, 1988 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator OTHER
Allen Keller Company · Unclassified, insufficient data

WHEN EMPLOYEE REPORTED TO WORK ON WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 88, HE SAID HIS BACK WAS BOTHERING HIM AND STED HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT CAUSED HIS BACK TO HURT. HE STATED HE WANTED TO SEE THE DR. WHICH HE DI D. UPON RETURN FROM DOCTOR'S VISIT HE STATED EVERYTHING WAS OK.