Mining Incidents

Hortense Mine: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Tarmac Plc
Brantley County, GA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0901041

MSHA record for Hortense Mine (mine ID 0901041). 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
1991
Latest incident
Apr 1991
Ownership history
  1. Sand South Inc 1989 to 1990
  2. Sand South-Div/Silver Sand Company 1990 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Hortense Mine sits in Brantley County, Georgia, 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.
Brantley County, Georgia · Population 18,171
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$47,801
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

1991 · 1 incident