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Vein Mountain Plant: 2 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Mc Cormick Doug Sr
Mcdowell County, NC  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3102028

Vein Mountain Plant has had no fatalities among 2 reportable incidents since 1988.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1988–1989
Latest incident
Feb 1989
Ownership history
  1. Vein Mountain Processing Company Inc 1988 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1990 8
1989 8
1988 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Vein Mountain Plant sits in McDowell County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
McDowell County, North Carolina · Population 44,679
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$55,527
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1989 · 1 incident

February 9, 1989 NC · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Vein Mountain Processing Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CHIPPING CONCRETE WITH STEEL BAR WITH 8 LB HAMMER MISSED STEEL BAR HITTING LOWER LEFT LEG.WITH HAMMER.

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1988 · 1 incident