Mining Incidents

Lake City Mine: 4 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Lake City Mining · Surface
Controlled by Bohannon C E
Suwannee County, FL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0801065

MSHA record for Lake City Mine (mine ID 0801065). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
1987–1988
Latest incident
Jul 1988
Ownership history
  1. Lake City Mining 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Lake City Mine sits in Suwannee County, Florida, 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.
Suwannee County, Florida · Population 44,484
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$55,479
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

1988 · 1 incident

July 27, 1988 FL · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Lake City Mining · Struck by flying object

ROCK FELL FROM ELIVATOR ON CRUSHER AND HIT INJURED IN THE LOWER BACK HIS LOWER BACK SWELLED UP AND HE WENT TO THE DOCTORS

1987 · 3 incidents

October 15, 1987 FL · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Lake City Mining · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE INJURED WAS3ADJUSTING THE BELT WHEN A MALFUNCTION OF THE BELT HIS HAND SLIPPED INTO THE BELT AND GUARD.

August 24, 1987 FL · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
Lake City Mining · Struck by flying object

I.NAME GOT OFF 5OADER AND WALKED PAST TIRE WHEN TIRE BLEW UP.GAVE HIM ABRASIONS OF CHEST,ARM,NECK AND FACE & EYE.

April 8, 1987 FL · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lake City Mining · Struck by falling object

BEARING IN FAIR3LEAD ROLLER.ROLLER AND SHAFT SLIP AND FELL ON TRACK.LACERATION TO LEFT HAND AND ARM SMALL PART OF METAL IN LEFT ANKLE.