Mining Incidents

Mayfield Quarry: 3 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Melco-Greer Inc · Surface
Marion County, TN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4002935

MSHA record for Mayfield Quarry (mine ID 4002935). 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
Apr 1989
Ownership history
  1. Melco-Greer Inc 1986 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Mayfield Quarry sits in Marion County, Tennessee, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Marion County, Tennessee · Population 29,010
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$58,103
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 · 1 incident

April 15, 1989 TN · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Melco-Greer Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

PRYING ON HAMMER IN SBM IMPACT CRUSHER BAR SLIPPED MOTOR TURNED JERKED PRYBAR BACK HITTING I NAME ON RT TEMPLE KNOCKED OUT

1988 · 2 incidents

October 10, 1988 TN · Metal/Non-Metal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melco-Greer Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

STARTED TO GREASE CONTROLS ON DGA PLANT RAISED PLASTIC COVER OVER CONTROL BOX, AND LIME DUST OFF PLASTIC FELL IN EYE.

August 11, 1988 TN · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Melco-Greer Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

TAKING HAMMERS OUT OF HAMMER MILL APPROX WEIGHT OF EACH HAMMER 45 LBS REPLACING WORN HAMMERS WITH NEW BUILD HAMMERS