Worker dead after falling into asphalt machine in Miami-Dade
By Monique O. Madan
mmadan@miamiherald.com
September 22, 2018
An industrial worker is dead after falling into an asphalt machine Saturday in West Miami-Dade, at the location of the General Asphalt Company, reports say.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to the scene at around 10:46 a.m. The call was initially for an “extreme fall’ near Northwest 72nd Avenue and 58th Street, fire rescue spokeswoman Lt. Kirsten Miller told the Miami Herald.
WSVN reported that detectives are still unsure how the worker fell into the machine. Miami-Dade police did not immediately respond to the Miami Herald’s request for comment.
General Asphalt has two manufacturing facilities dedicated to the production of hot mix, warm mix, and cold patch mix. Our East Dade facility, is located at 4850 N.W. 72 Ave, in Miami, Florida.
This facility is a batch/drum combo plant that can manufacture approximately 200 tons of asphalt per hour. The facility also crushes milled asphalt and recycles the material by utilizing it as a component in some of the asphalt mixes.This facility provides retail asphalt sales to paving companies, contractors, and local municipalities. The 4 storage silos provides the Company flexibility to pre-manufacture customer requested asphalt mix for the following day, so our customers can efficiently utilize their hauling fleet.
Our West Dade site is located at 17200 N.W. 122 Ave also in Miami, FL. This facicility is a drum mix plant with a production capacity of approximately 300 tons per hour. The Company’s investment in two separate facilities creates manufacturing redundancy in order to minimize any interruption in the flow of asphalt required meet our client’s paving schedule.
General Asphalt is the leading provider of airport runway construction and one of the largest Heavy Highway and Civil contractors in South Florida. We can satisfy the needs of the most complex projects including but not limited to milling, earthwork, lighting, sandblasting, concrete, thermoplastic, striping, etc. Through our broad based network of subcontractors we are able to manage all aspects of a project to ensure its completion well within the mandated time frames and budgets. General Asphalt has received many awards throughout the years for its standards of EXCELLENCE!
General Asphalt’s state of the art of paving equipment and dump trucks, ensure that our customer’s demands are met with the highest level of service and quality. General Asphalt constantly strives to meet and exceed the paving requirements of the project.