Mining Incidents

Sapphire Blue: 2 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Oglethorpe County, GA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0900059

MSHA record for Sapphire Blue (mine ID 0900059). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1987–1988
Latest incident
Nov 1988
Ownership history
  1. Scarborough Granite Company 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Sapphire Blue sits in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, 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.
Oglethorpe County, Georgia · Population 15,221
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$69,784
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1988 · 1 incident

1987 · 1 incident