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L & W #5: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Darrell (Skip) Bailey
Appanoose County, IA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1300974

MSHA record for L & W #5 (mine ID 1300974). 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
1983
Latest incident
Mar 1983
Ownership history
  1. L & W Construction Company 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

L & W #5 sits in Appanoose County, Iowa, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Appanoose County, Iowa · Population 12,242
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$51,146
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

1983 · 1 incident

March 17, 1983 IA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
L & W Construction Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

INJURED DEVELOPED BACK PROBLEMS AND ATTRIBUTED IT TO LIFTING A BELLY-PAN FOR A CATERPILLAR D-8 DOZER. THERE HAS BEEEN A QUIESTION AS TO WHETHER OR NOT JOB WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR INJURY. MR. BABB ITT WAS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL APRIL 28, 1983 WAS THE FIRST WE, THE EMPLOYER, KNEW OF THE INJURY.