Mining Incidents

Standard Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Acme Brick Company · Surface
Controlled by Berkshire Hathaway Inc
Elgin, Bastrop County, TX  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4100264

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2015
Latest incident
Dec 2015
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
19
citations
0
significant & substantial
$2,041
proposed penalties
$2,041
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 3,802 2 0 526.0
2025 Q3 3,779 1 0 264.6
2025 Q2 1,839 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 622 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4,070 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,552 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,168 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 422 0 0 0.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2015 · 1 incident

December 14, 2015 TX · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Acme Brick Company · Struck against stationary object

While conduction preventive maintenance, associate was removing transmission filter from a John Deere 400D artic truck. The wrench he was using slipped and associate struck right elbow against bottom side of engine.