Elite Refractory, LLC contractor

Metal / nonmetal

MSHA contractor ID: B8225

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 37
Citations: 1,217,453
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.: 0.82
Fatalities / million hrs

30.4 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.

Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality

Incident timeline

2025

1 (1f)

Mines worked

GCC Dacotah Inc SD

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

February 22, 2025 SD · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE

GCC Dacotah Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

A miner received fatal injuries. After a bridge collapsed that the miner was operating a skid steer loader on. The miner was clearing refractory brick form a rotary kiln. The bridge that was installed by the property owner collapsed. The skid steer fell approximately 10 feet into a hopper, causing the payload of brick to engulf the operator causing fatal wounds.