Mining Incidents

Portable Quarry #1: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Black Hawk County, IA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1302175

MSHA record for Portable Quarry #1 (mine ID 1302175). 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
1990
Latest incident
Apr 1990
Ownership history
  1. Basic Materials Corp 1990 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Portable Quarry #1 sits in Black Hawk County, Iowa, 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.
Black Hawk County, Iowa · Population 130,693
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$64,581
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

1990 · 1 incident

April 12, 1990 IA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Basic Materials Corp · Fall onto or against objects

I.NAME LOST FOOTING IN BOAT AND SLIPPED,HITTING HIS BACK ON SEAT OF BOAT.