Mining Incidents

Candy Creek Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Avant, Osage County, OK  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3401210

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2022–2023
Latest incident
May 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
125
citations
39
significant & substantial
$92,311
proposed penalties
$65,061
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 2,868 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,878 1 0 347.5
2025 Q2 3,317 7 0 2110.3
2025 Q1 2,724 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,891 6 0 2075.4
2024 Q3 4,397 10 3 2274.3
2024 Q2 3,893 1 0 256.9
2024 Q1 3,294 6 2 1821.5
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2023 · 1 incident

May 22, 2023 OK · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Candy Creek Crusher, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee's were installing a new auger in a wash plant trying to align bolt holes in the two flange assembly. The employee put the tip of EE's finger in the bolt hole to align up the two holes. One of the two flange pieces slid down and lacerated the tip of EE's right middle finger.

2022 · 1 incident

February 16, 2022 OK · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Candy Creek Crusher, LLC · Struck by falling object

EE was working around the assembly of the wash plant installing a leg that fell over onto EE's leg, pinning it underneath. Ultimately breaking EE's leg. Two coworkers assisted in picking up the metal leg off of EE's leg and pulled EE out from under it. EE was taken by a coworker to St. Francis hospital.