Mining Incidents

Stocks Buffalo Pit & Mine: 5 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Richard D Ford
Clark County, NV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2600455

MSHA record for Stocks Buffalo Pit & Mine (mine ID 2600455). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
1983–1986
Latest incident
Jan 1986
Ownership history
  1. Stocks Mill & Supply Company Inc 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Stocks Buffalo Pit & Mine sits in Clark County, Nevada, 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.
Clark County, Nevada · Population 2,293,764
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$73,845
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

1986 · 1 incident

January 31, 1986 NV · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Stocks Mill & Supply Company Inc · Fall from machine

TRAINING NEW EM1LOYEE ON SELF LOADING SCRAPER HE HIT BUMP ON FEEDER WHICH CAUSED HIM TO FALL UP AGAINST THE FLOOR OF THE CAB

1985 · 1 incident

February 28, 1985 NV · Metal/Non-Metal SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Stocks Mill & Supply Company Inc · Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE WAS FUELING KAMATISIE DOZER,WHEN HIS RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE FELL BACK AND HIT ON RIGHT LEG AND HIS KNEE GAVE WAY.THERE HAS BEEN NO TIME LOST FROM WORK SINCE 2-28 -85. I NAME WENT TO THE DOCTORS ON 5-13-85 ON ACCOUNT HIS RIGHT KNEE WAS GIVING HIM SOME PROBLEMS.

1984 · 2 incidents

March 31, 1984 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator OTHER
Stocks Mill & Supply Company Inc · Struck by flying object

EMPLOLYEE WAS REPLACING BEARING AND SOMETHING WENT INTO HIS EYE

January 13, 1984 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Stocks Mill & Supply Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN A SLIGHT GRADE AND HE LOST HIS FOOTING HE CAUGHT HIMSELF WRENCHING HIS KNEE

1983 · 1 incident