Washita Mountain Whetstone Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EMPLOYEE WAS SAWING STONE AND HIT A NATURAL FRACTURE WHICH CAUSED THE STONE TO SLIP FORCING HIS THUMB UNDER THE BLADE OF THE SAW
Norton Arkansas Operations: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal
Norton Company
· Surface
Controlled by
Saint-Gobain
Garland County,
AR
·
Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0301527
MSHA record for Norton Arkansas Operations (mine ID 0301527). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 1
- Years on record
- 1985
- Latest incident
- Mar 1985
Ownership history
- Washita Mountain Whetstone Company Inc 1982 to 1989
- Norton Company 1989 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Norton Arkansas Operations sits in Garland County, Arkansas, where the Census mining category is 0.5% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.Garland County, Arkansas · Population 100,062
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$55,409
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.