Mining Incidents

Piening Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Yankee Hill Brick Manufacturing Company · Surface
Controlled by David H Murdock
Lancaster County, NE  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2500835

MSHA record for Piening Pit (mine ID 2500835). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Ownership history
  1. Yankee Hill Brick Manufacturing Company 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Piening Pit sits in Lancaster County, Nebraska, 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.
Lancaster County, Nebraska · Population 323,673
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$72,625
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.