Mining Incidents

Mount Pleasant Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Contractors Sand & Gravel Company · Surface
Controlled by Ward William C-George H Brittingham
New Castle County, DE  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0700101

Mount Pleasant Pit has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
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Latest incident
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Ownership history
  1. Contractors Sand & Gravel Company 1986 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1987 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Mount Pleasant Pit sits in New Castle County, Delaware, 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.
New Castle County, Delaware · Population 573,030
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$89,901
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.