Mining Incidents

Southworth Portable Crusher: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Southworth Melvin
King County, WA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4501586

MSHA record for Southworth Portable Crusher (mine ID 4501586). 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
1988
Latest incident
Jul 1988
Ownership history
  1. U S Forest Service 1950 to 1979
  2. Southworth & Sons Inc 1979 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Southworth Portable Crusher sits in King County, Washington, 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.
King County, Washington · Population 2,262,713
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$122,148
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

1988 · 1 incident

July 10, 1988 WA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Southworth & Sons Inc · Struck by falling object

WAS BACKING FRONTEND LOADER AWAY FROM PIT WALL WITH BUCKET OF MATERIAL AND 1 ROCK SIZE OF SALT SHAKER CAME FROM ABOVE STRIKING MY FINGER BELOW MAIN AND FIRST KNUCKLE CAUSING SMALL LACERATION A ND BADLY BRUISED KNUCKLE