Mining Incidents

Plateau Sand Company: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Allen Linder
Sequatchie County, TN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4003059

MSHA record for Plateau Sand Company (mine ID 4003059). 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
1992
Latest incident
Jul 1992
Ownership history
  1. Plateau Sand Company 1991 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Plateau Sand Company sits in Sequatchie 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.
Sequatchie County, Tennessee · Population 16,409
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$52,260
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1992 · 1 incident

July 8, 1992 TN · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Plateau Sand Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A 12' PICE OF DRILL STEEL WEIGHIN APPROX 90 LBS, INJURING A DISK.