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Western Pit: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Basic Industries Inc
Hidalgo County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4103268

MSHA record for Western Pit (mine ID 4103268). 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
1984
Latest incident
Dec 1984
Ownership history
  1. South Texas Construction Company 1984 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Western Pit sits in Hidalgo County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 1.8% 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.
Hidalgo County, Texas · Population 880,921
1.8%
Mining share of county employment
$52,281
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

1984 · 1 incident

December 26, 1984 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
South Texas Construction Company · Struck against a moving object

HE WAS DRIVING SCRAPER HIT A BUMP ON RAMP OF STOCKPILE CAUINGF A LITLE PAIN IN STOMACH HE SAW ONE DR AND HE TOLD HIM IT WAS A SWOLLEN COLON INTESTINE BUT HE KEPT FEELING SICK SO HE SAW ANOTH DR AND HE SAID HE HAD A HERNIA ON HIS NAVAL AND NEEDS SURGERY