WHILE REPLACING THE COVER ON T HE SCREW CONVEYOR THE HINGE ON THE COVER BROKE PULLING THE EE OFF BALANCE. HE T RIED TO JUMP TO THE GROUND BUT HE HIT HIS FOOT WHICH CAUSED HIM TO FALL TO THE GROUND.
Gcc/Aglime Plant: 2 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal
Dixie Lime & Stone Company
· Facility
Controlled by
Amcar Inc
Sumter County,
FL
·
Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0800875
MSHA record for Gcc/Aglime Plant (mine ID 0800875). 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
- 1983–1984
- Latest incident
- Jan 1984
Ownership history
- Dixie Lime & Stone Company 1950 to 1979
- Dixie Lime & Stone Company 1979 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Gcc/Aglime Plant sits in Sumter County, Florida, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.Sumter County, Florida · Population 137,536
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$73,297
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file1984 · 1 incident
January 12, 1984
FL · Metal/Non-Metal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Dixie Lime & Stone Company · Fall from machine
1983 · 1 incident
Dixie Lime & Stone Company · Struck by falling object
EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING AN OVERHEAD RETURN SCREW WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL INTO HIS RIGHT EYE. EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES BUT ROCK CAME OVER THE TOP OF THE GLASSES. SURGERY WAS REQUIRED TO REMOVE THE PIECE OF ROCK FROM EMPLOYEE\S EYE.