Mining Incidents

UTLEY PIT Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Connie Spiegel
Bell County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4103964

MSHA record for UTLEY PIT (mine ID 4103964). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1997
Latest incident
Sep 1997
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2000 Q1 0 0 0

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
September 30, 1997 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Shallow Ford Construction Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

OPERATOR WAS STRIPPING OVERBURDEN FROM A SAND & GRAVEL DEPOSIT. HE DROVE HIS SCRAPER UP ONTO AN EXISTING (APPROX. 5' TALL) TOPSOIL STOCKPILE. HE DROVE HIS SCRAPER OFF OF THE EDGE AND TURNED IT ONTO ITS SIDE. HIS LEFT LEG WAS SEVERED BY THE ROPS, AS WAS HIS LEFT ARM. HE DIED OF INTERNAL INJURIES AT THE HOSPITAL.

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