Mining Incidents

SMITH PIT: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Brad De Vazier
St Francis County, AR  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0301792

MSHA record for SMITH PIT (mine ID 0301792). 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
1998
Latest incident
Oct 1998
Ownership history
  1. Crowley'S Ridge Sand & Gravel Company Inc 1998 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

SMITH PIT sits in St. Francis County, Arkansas, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
St. Francis County, Arkansas · Population 22,740
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$41,784
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

1998 · 1 incident

October 7, 1998 AR · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Crowley'S Ridge Sand & Gravel Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

USING A CUTTING TORCH TO CUT A PIECE OF SCREEN & A ROCK POPPED OUT & EMBEDDED A SPLINTER IN THERIGHT EYE Y