Mining Incidents

WOOSUNG QUARRY PORTABLE: 3 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Lambert Bruce
Ogle County, IL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1102692

MSHA record for WOOSUNG QUARRY PORTABLE (mine ID 1102692). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1992–1996
Latest incident
Aug 1996
Ownership history
  1. Kehobe Materials Inc 1979 to 1983
  2. Woosung Quarry Products 1983 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

WOOSUNG QUARRY PORTABLE sits in Ogle County, Illinois, 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.
Ogle County, Illinois · Population 51,536
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$79,244
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

1996 · 1 incident

August 19, 1996 IL · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Woosung Quarry Products · Fall from machine

LOADER OPERATOR WAS CLIMBING UP TROJANLOADER AND WAS ALMOST TO PLATFORM RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED OFF LADDER HE GRABBED AND HELD ON TO LADDER AND FELL TO GROUND AND WHEN HE HIT THE GROUND HE FELL BAC KWARDS.

1994 · 1 incident

May 9, 1994 IL · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Woosung Quarry Products · Fall onto or against objects

STEPPING DOWN OFF HAMMERMILL PLANT OT GORUND. (STEP IS ABOUT KNEE HIGH) WHEN STEPPE DON GROUND LEFT KNEE GAVE OUT AND FELL UP AGAINST TIRE OF HAMMERMILL. KNEE REALLY HURT FELT LIKE AN OBJECT HIT KNEE BUT NO OBJECT DID HIT IT.

1992 · 1 incident

February 27, 1992 IL · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Woosung Quarry Products · Struck by falling object

68935 CLEANING PRIMARY FEEDER BOULDER FELL ON FOOT AND FRACTURED LEFT FOOT. REPORT BEING SUBMITTED DUE TO CITATION ISSUED ON A REGULAR INSPECTION.