Mining Incidents

KEELER SAND PLANT: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Ritchie Sand Inc · Surface
Controlled by H T Ritchie
Sedgwick County, KS  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1401417

MSHA record for KEELER SAND PLANT (mine ID 1401417). 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
Jun 1991
Ownership history
  1. Walt Keeler Company Inc 1982 to 1996
  2. Ritchie Sand Inc 1996 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

KEELER SAND PLANT sits in Sedgwick County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Sedgwick County, Kansas · Population 524,810
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$67,675
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

June 6, 1991 KS · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Walt Keeler Company Inc · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS MOWING THE YARD SAND FLEW INTO HIS EYES.