Mining Incidents

Wood'S Pit: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Essex County, VT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4300394

MSHA record for Wood'S Pit (mine ID 4300394). 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
Jul 1985
Ownership history
  1. Mc Cullough Crushing Inc 1985 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Wood'S Pit sits in Essex County, Vermont, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Essex County, Vermont · Population 5,972
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$58,985
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

July 16, 1985 VT · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mc Cullough Crushing Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

MOVING A ROCK BY HAND WHILE REPAIRING A WATER LINE IN BREAK STRAINE THE KNEE WHILE LIFTING.