Mining Incidents

Lehigh Valley Sand & Gravel: 3 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Wempco · Surface
Controlled by Simon Larry T
Monroe County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3603197

MSHA record for Lehigh Valley Sand & Gravel (mine ID 3603197). 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
1989
Latest incident
Jul 1989
Ownership history
  1. Lehigh Valley Sand & Gravel Company Inc 1950 to 1989
  2. Wempco 1989 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Lehigh Valley Sand & Gravel sits in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, 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.
Monroe County, Pennsylvania · Population 167,784
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$82,374
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 · 3 incidents

July 12, 1989 PA · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Wempco · Fall onto or against objects

EE WAS CHANGING A ROLLER ON THE CONEYER, HE JUST COMPLETED THE ONE SIDE AND MOVED TO THE OTHER SIDE. HE WENT TO JUMP DOWN TO GET MORE PARTS. AS HE JUMPED HE LANDED ON A PIECE OF STEEL RAMING I T INTO HIS LEG.

June 30, 1989 PA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Wempco · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING C.B. RADIO IN THE LOADER WHEN TIGHTENING THE BOLTS, WRENCH SLIPPED AND HE CUT HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER, NEAR THE KNUCKLE.

March 14, 1989 PA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

STOOD 8 FT HIGH ON CRUSHER PLANT USING WRENCH TO LOSSEN BOLT HIS HANDS WERE GREASY WRENCH SLIPPEDK FROM NUT & HE FELL BACKWARDS INJURING HIS ARM WRIST & PINKIE FINGER