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Winterset Quarry And Mill: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Madison County, IA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1300202

MSHA record for Winterset Quarry And Mill (mine ID 1300202). 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
1985
Latest incident
Feb 1985
Ownership history
  1. E I Sargent Quarries Inc 1950 to 1982
  2. Martin Marietta-Construction Aggregates Division 1982 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Winterset Quarry And Mill sits in Madison County, Iowa, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Madison County, Iowa · Population 16,760
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$89,542
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

1985 · 1 incident

February 13, 1985 IA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator OTHER
Martin Marietta-Construction Aggregates Division · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING THE DOOR TO THE GENERATOR TRAILER THERE WAS A STRONG GUST OF WIND WHICH CAUGHT THE DOOR AND FORCED IT BACK INTO HIS FACE CAUSING CUTS ABOVE AND BELOW HIS LEFT EYE