Mining Incidents

Tower Sand Plant: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Vulcan Materials Company
Polk County, FL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0801031

MSHA record for Tower Sand Plant (mine ID 0801031). 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. Silica Mining Inc 1985 to 1990
  2. Florida Rock Industries Inc 1990 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Tower Sand Plant sits in Polk County, Florida, 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.
Polk County, Florida · Population 760,961
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$63,644
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 19, 1988 FL · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Silica Mining Inc · Fall from machine

MUDDY CONDITONS FROM WEATHER. SMALL AMOUNT OF MUD ON LADDER. EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON STEP FROM TOP WHILE CLIMBING DOWN.