Mining Incidents

Keuka Industrial Sand Plant: 3 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Vulcan Materials Company
Putnam County, FL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0801095

MSHA record for Keuka Industrial Sand Plant (mine ID 0801095). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1988–1989
Latest incident
Sep 1989
Ownership history
  1. Florida Rock Industries Inc 1988 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Keuka Industrial Sand Plant sits in Putnam County, Florida, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Putnam County, Florida · Population 74,235
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$47,256
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

1989 · 2 incidents

September 12, 1989 FL · Metal/Non-Metal POWERED HAULAGE
Florida Rock Industries Inc · Struck against a moving object

THE EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A FRONT END LOADER STOCKPILING AND FEEDING THE WET PROCESSING SECTION OF THE PLANT. NOT BEING USED TO OPERATING A LOADER SO MANY HOURS PER DAY, HE ALLEGEDLY STRAINED OR PULLED THE MUSLCES IN HIS LOWER BACK, THIS WAS THE DOCTOR'S DIAGNOSIS.

April 11, 1989 FL · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner POWERED HAULAGE
Florida Rock Industries Inc · Struck against a moving object

EMPL OPERATING LOADER AS HE APPROACHED STOCKPIULE WITH BUCKET IN THE AIR,LOADER LEANED TO RIGHT BECAUSED SOMEONE HAD CUT GRADE TO DRAIN OFF WATER AND OPER SNATCHED STEERING WHEEL TO LEFT.THIS JARRED ,TWISTED EMPLS BACK . SEE LETTER

1988 · 1 incident

July 21, 1988 FL · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Florida Rock Industries Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

PINCH FINGER BETWEEN 55 GALLONG DRUM AND BUCKET OF 98UC WHEELLOADER .