Mining Incidents

Miami Quarry No 34: 12 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Howard Quarries Inc · Surface
Controlled by Howard Olen
Saline County, MO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2300109

MSHA record for Miami Quarry No 34 (mine ID 2300109). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
12
Years on record
1983–1987
Latest incident
Nov 1987
Ownership history
  1. Howard Quarries Inc 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Miami Quarry No 34 sits in Saline County, Missouri, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Saline County, Missouri · Population 23,177
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$56,566
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

12 on file

1987 · 2 incidents

November 5, 1987 MO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Howard Quarries Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEES WERE 8ISMANTLING CRUSHER WHICH WAS HELD UP BY RAILROAD TIES,ONE END FELL,THE OTHER END CAME UP AND PINNED THE INJURED'S RIGHT HAND BETWEEN RAILROAD TIES AND PRIMARY PLANT.

January 21, 1987 MO · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver MACHINERY
Howard Quarries Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

ON 1/12/87 HE W5S CLEANING SNOW OUT OF THE BED OF THE TRUCK; HE JUMPED TO THE GROUND AND FELT HIS KNEE POP BUT FELT NO PAIN. ON 1/21/87 WHILE DRIVING THE TRUCK, HE PUSHED ON LTHE CLUTCH AND FE LT HIS KNEE POP3AGAIN AND THEN FELT PAIN.

1986 · 4 incidents

November 1, 1986 MO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Howard Quarries Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

LIFTING ON EUCL3D TRUCK HUB IN REPAIRING TRUCK.

June 17, 1986 MO · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Howard Quarries Inc · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS GE7TING OUT OF TRUCK AND S TEPPED ON A ROCK THE ROCK FLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO TURN HIS ANKLE

January 9, 1986 MO · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Howard Quarries Inc · Struck against a moving object

EMPL RUNNING DO1ER OVER ROUGH GROUND.WHILE BACKING MACHINE UP WENT OVER ROUGH CENTER OF AREA JARRING OPERATOR.

January 3, 1986 MO · Metal/Non-Metal coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler POWERED HAULAGE
Howard Quarries Inc · Struck against a moving object

SHOVEL WAS DIGG3NG IN ROCK PILE WHILE SETTING ON UNSTABLE GROUND.SHOVEL STARTED TO SWING,FRONT OF SHOVEL WENT DOWN AS IF IT WOULD TURN OVER.OPERATOR ABLE TO PUT BUCKET BACK ON GROUND AND PUSH MACHINE BACK T2 UPRIGHT POSITION.BUT WHEN SHOVEL WENT BACK DOWN TO POSITION IT WAS WITH GREAT IMPACT CAUSING OPERATOR TO BE JARRED.

1985 · 3 incidents

August 26, 1985 MO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Howard Quarries Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS CLEANING CRUSHER HOPPER WITH SHOVEL WHEN A LARGE ROCK ROLLED DOWN FROM SIDE HIT FLOOR OF HOPPER ROLLING ONTO EES FOOT.

May 28, 1985 MO · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Howard Quarries Inc · Fall from machine

I.NAME STARTED EUCLID AND WAS GETTING OUT TO LOWER BED SUPPORT, WHEN FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF STEP, DROPPING HIS BODY WEIGHT.

April 4, 1985 MO · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Howard Quarries Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE DRIVING EUCLID TRUCK (HEAVY HAUL TRUCK), THE STRAIN INJURED HIS BACK.

1984 · 2 incidents

August 13, 1984 MO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Howard Quarries Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HELPING TO UNLOAD HAMMERS.

April 12, 1984 MO · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Howard Quarries Inc · Fall from machine

CHANGING AIR CLEANER FOOT SLIPPED ON MUDDY PUSH ARM AND FELL HITTING HEAD ON ROCK ON GROUND

1983 · 1 incident

June 21, 1983 MO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Howard Quarries Inc · Struck by rolling or sliding object

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING BOULDERS IN FEED HOPPER WHEN ANOTHER ROCK ROLLED DOWN HITTING HIS HAND