Mining Incidents

Merryville AggregateMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by SCG Investors LLC
Deridder, Vernon County, LA · Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1601594
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2021–2022
Latest incident
Mar 2022
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2022 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was checking the water meter gauge on the hydrosizer when employee's leg slipped through the gap in the deck/stairs to the hydrosizer.

2021 · 2 incidents

Contact with electrical current

Employee was welding in dead cell (tied off appropriately) and welding machine was grounded appropriately. The wire to the machine was tugged on at the bottom, and the wire became compromised and shocked EE.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The laborer was feeding a conveyor belt through rollers. The conveyor belt was lowered completely to the ground while the miner was working on it. The miner pulled too hard on the conveyor at the same time that another miner was pulling on it and their hand went between the rollers and the conveyor belt.