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Walker Plant: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Jones Michael T
St Helena County, LA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1601087

MSHA record for Walker Plant (mine ID 1601087). 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
1994
Latest incident
Dec 1994
Ownership history
  1. Thomas Sand & Gravel Company Inc 1986 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Walker Plant sits in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, where the Census mining category is 2.1% 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.
St. Helena Parish, Louisiana · Population 10,849
2.1%
Mining share of county employment
$50,193
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

1994 · 1 incident

December 9, 1994 LA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Thomas Sand & Gravel Company Inc · Fall from machine

EE WAS STANDING ON A MOUND OF DIRT TALKING WITH ANOTHER EE, WHO WAS ON THE DREDGE ON THE WATER, WHEN TAHE DIRT HE WAS STANDING ON SHIFTED, CAUSING HIM TO FALL ON HIS BACKSIDE.