What a truck actually met
The Mine Safety and Health Administration records 9 people at Duffield Aggregate, 4 at the Leadwood Plant and 7 at a dimension-limestone operation under Central Stone Company.
Within ten miles of Duffield Aggregate the national bridge file counts 134 structures, five carrying a posting and two rated below legal loads, the nearest 9.65 miles out. St Francois County, which is where two of these three sit, restricts 5 of 63 — 7.9 per cent against a state county rate of 12.7.
This is Old Lead Belt country, where Bonne Terre, Leadwood, Desloge, Elvins and Flat River worked galena from the 1860s until the 1970s. What is quarried now is the dolomite that hosted the ore. The ground was disturbed and served by haul roads built for a heavier industry, and a district that lost its main industry fifty years ago has civil-works demand that is programme-funded rather than growth-led, so the year runs flatter than a building market’s.
The nearest of the three sits 11.88 miles from the middle of town, and the Central Stone yard turns over a steady amount of it.
- My machine worked in the next county, not this one.Very likely, and worth saying. Two of the three Potosi operations are actually in St Francois County. The county line matters more than the postal address around here.
Around the Central Stone yard, and out across the Old Lead Belt, there is usually one sitting.