Mining Incidents

Stout Excavating Group LLC contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: B7441
Safety record
2
Fatalities
149
Citations
3,467,612
Employee-hours (2000+)
Rates use contractor-reported employee-hours as the denominator. About 2% of reported hours are dropped as duplicate filings, so the hours total runs slightly low and any per-hour rate reads slightly high. Quarters filed with zero hours are excluded, and hours are reported only from 2000 on.
0.58
Fatalities / million hrs
43.0 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS 1 fatality
  • MACHINERY 1 fatality
  • POWERED HAULAGE 4 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 1 non-fatal
  • OCCUPATIONAL SKIN DISEASES 1 non-fatal
  • OTHER 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
1
2025
3 (1f)
2024
3
2023
2
2022
1 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

2 recorded
May 1, 2025 TX · Metal/Non-Metal rotary bucket excavator operator Fatality · FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
SP Silica of Atascosa, LLC · Struck by rolling or sliding object

EE was operating an excavator in Pit 2 at SPS Atascosa. Pit 2 is located between two tailings ponds. 9:18 AM one of the tailings ponds breached causing tailings mixture to flow into the work site. Tailings mixture tipped over the excavator EE was operating cab side down. The front window broke, tailings mixture engulfed the cab & 75% of the vehicle. Employee could not escape.

December 16, 2022 TX · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech Fatality · MACHINERY
SP Silica of Atascosa, LLC · Struck by falling object

Employee was working with a 3 man crew dismantling a Caterpillar 390F Excavator. During dismantling, EE was impacted by the counterweight. The other 2 crew members did not witness the accident.