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Tecopa Plant & Mill (Beck): 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Richard B Harmon
San Bernardino County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0402509

MSHA record for Tecopa Plant & Mill (Beck) (mine ID 0402509). 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
1990
Latest incident
Oct 1990
Ownership history
  1. Standard Slag Company 1950 to 1987
  2. Standard Industrial Minerals Inc 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Tecopa Plant & Mill (Beck) sits in San Bernardino County, California, 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.
San Bernardino County, California · Population 2,187,816
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$82,184
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

1990 · 1 incident

October 23, 1990 CA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Standard Industrial Minerals Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING MAINTENANCE UNDER FRONT END LOADER. EMPLOYEE REPORTED BACK PAIN AFTER COMPLETING MAINTENENCE AND CRAWLING OUT FROM UNDERNEATH FRONT END LOADER. NOTE: EMPLOYER'S INVESTI GATION OF INCIDENT INDICATES THAT IT IS QUESTIONABLE THAT A WORK RELATED INJURY OCCURRED.