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Echols Mill Quarries LLC operator

Controlled by David W Dye; Randy K Smith

MSHA operator ID: 0090246

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 4
Mines on record: 2
Years on record: 2014–2021

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2008

citations

significant & substantial

$174,493

proposed penalties

$121,693

paid to date

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Top causes

FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS 1 fatality
FIRE 1 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 1 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2021

3 (1f)

2014

Mines on record

Echols Mill Quarry 1 and 2 GA
Boyd GA

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded

July 28, 2021 GA · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman Fatality · FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS

Echols Mill Quarries LLC · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE is believed to have been either chipping away several inches of top layer of brownish colored granite or drilling a chain hole through the granite near end of the block on the open face so block could be lifted using a chain. Granite block being worked on was approx. 5'x12'x30'. Additional submitted details on file.