Mining Incidents

White Crusher: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Summit Inc · Surface
Pennington County, SD  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3900758

MSHA record for White Crusher (mine ID 3900758). 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
1983
Latest incident
Jan 1983
Ownership history
  1. Summit Inc 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

White Crusher sits in Pennington County, South Dakota, where the Census mining category is 0.9% 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.
Pennington County, South Dakota · Population 112,081
0.9%
Mining share of county employment
$70,768
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

1983 · 1 incident

January 6, 1983 SD · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Summit Inc · Struck against a moving object

OPERATOR BACKED DOZER OVER LARGE ROCK RESULTING IN WHIPLASH.