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Riverside Caliche Pit: 3 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Hutchison Rock Pit · Surface
Controlled by Hutchison Eddie
Walker County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4102694

MSHA record for Riverside Caliche Pit (mine ID 4102694). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1986–1989
Latest incident
May 1989
Ownership history
  1. Hutchison Rock Pit 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Riverside Caliche Pit sits in Walker County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Walker County, Texas · Population 78,292
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$49,862
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

1989 · 1 incident

May 16, 1989 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchison Rock Pit · Struck against a moving object

RIDING LOADER THROUGH PIT HIT BUMP CAUSED INJ TO BACK.

1987 · 1 incident

May 18, 1987 TX · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchison Rock Pit · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS ON3977 TRACTOR RIPPING ON A SLANT,TRACTOR SLIPPED DOWN HILL AND LAID OVER ON SIDE,BUCKET WAS IN THE AIR.NO SERIOUS INJURY INCURRED.

1986 · 1 incident

April 14, 1986 TX · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Hutchison Rock Pit · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE LEFT T9ACTOR IN GEAR GOT OFF AND STOOD ON TRACT TRIED TO KILL THE DOZER MANUALLY AND PUSHED THE THROTTLE CABLE THE WRONG WAY AND ACCELERATED THE TRACTOR FELL OFF AND THE TRACK RAN O VER HIS RT LEG 6REAKING IT IN SEVERAL PLACES