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U S Brick Pit Metal/Non-Metal

General Shale Brick, Inc. · Surface

Controlled by Wienerberger AG

Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, TX · Intermittent

MSHA Mine ID: 4102829

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2021
Latest incident: Jul 2021

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2001

citations

significant & substantial

$966

proposed penalties

$938

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	Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4	24	0	0.0
2025 Q3	50	0	0.0
2025 Q2	40	0	0.0
2025 Q1	5	0	0.0
2024 Q4	10	0	0.0
2024 Q3	12	0	0.0
2024 Q2	84	0	0.0
2024 Q1	52	2	38461.5

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

2021 · 1 incident

July 10, 2021 TX · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Meridian Brick LLC · Struck by flying object

EE was changing bucket teeth on an excavator. When EE hit a tooth with a sledge hammer, a piece of the hammer head broke off and penetrated EE's left inner thigh. EE was taken to Palo Pinto General Hospital for medical care.