Mining Incidents

HENSON: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Granite Construction Inc
Obion County, TN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4003072

MSHA record for HENSON (mine ID 4003072). 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
1995
Latest incident
Sep 1995
Ownership history
  1. Memphis Stone & Gravel Company 1993 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

HENSON sits in Obion County, Tennessee, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Obion County, Tennessee · Population 30,570
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$53,102
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

1995 · 1 incident

September 12, 1995 TN · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE OPENING DOOR ON ROCK FEEDER MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN HANDLE & DOOR CAUSING A LACERATION & SPRAIN