citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘThis rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 12 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Ferris Plant recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2000.
Injury rate, 2000
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000 and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year. Employment reports reach back to 1983, but those earlier years come from MSHA's archived file format and are not used in rates.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.77 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.42 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2001
8
2000
22
1999
33
1998
35
1997
37
1996
39
1995
39
1994
37
1993
37
1992
35
1991
34
1990
33
1989
26
1988
44
1987
55
1986
49
1985
45
1984
46
1983
43
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.
Ferris Plant sits in Ellis County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.7% of county employment.
Local economic context
ⓘCounty figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Ellis County, Texas · Population 203,927
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$95,898
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘCitations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2001 Q1
3,728
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
5,332
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
8,701
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
15,515
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
17,900
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
48 on file
2001 · 1 incident
March 15, 2001TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techPOWERED HAULAGE
EE WAS MAKING ENGINE REPAIR ON B-30 EUCLID IN KNEELING POSITION INSIDE SHOP WITH DOOR CLOSED AT TRINITY WACO LOCATION. B-30 DID HAVE TIRE CHAULKS. TRINITY OPERATOR ON ANOTHER B-30 LOST CONTROL AND SMASHED INTO DOOR OF SHOP AND CAME THROUGH TO HIT UNIT IN SHOP. THE B-30 IN SHOP WAS PUSHED FOREWARD ONTO EE FOOT WHICH WAS BROKEN.
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1997 · 1 incident
June 20, 1997TX · Metal/Non-Metalcrane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, riggerPOWERED HAULAGE
EE WAS USING A BAR TO MOVE APRON FROM SHAKER, SHAKER HIT THE APRON AND JERKED HIS RIGHT ARM AND SHOULDER.
August 25, 1995TX · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSTEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
EE WAS 1 OF 4 PEOPLE HELPING TO INSTALL A NEW HOIST CABLE ON THE 480-W DRAGLINE EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO SLIP THE END OF THE CABLE INTO A RETAINER WHEN SOMEONE LET GO OF THEIR HOLD THIS WAS A 21/4 IN CABLE EE LETE THE CABLE MASH HIS FINGER AGAIN ST THE CABLE DRUM
1994 · 1 incident
July 13, 1994TX · Metal/Non-Metalcrane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, riggerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
IT RAINED LAST NIGHT,IT WAS MUDDY AT THE PIT AREA. INJURED GOT DOWN OFF MACHINE,THEN BACKUP ON TRACKS THAT WERE MUDDY AND SLICK,HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELL ON HIS BACK.
1993 · 6 incidents
October 5, 1993TX · Metal/Non-Metalcrane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, riggerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
HE WAS PUTTING ON A HOIST CABLE ON DRAGLINE. HE HAD HELPER TO SWING SLEDGE HAMMER AGAINST WEDGE KNOCKER. HE MISSED KNOCKER, HIT ON SIDE OF IT CAUSING A SLIVER OF METAL TO COME OFF HITTING HIM IN THE LEFT CHEEK.
April 9, 1993TX · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverHANDLING OF MATERIALS
INJURED CLIMBED ON 4600 MAINTOWAC, WHILE GETTING DOWN, HE STEPPED ON TRACKS, S LIPPED AND FELL ON LEFT ARM AND HAND. INJURED COULD MOVE HAND AND FINGERS AND DID NOT APPEAR HURT TOO BAD.
1992 · 1 incident
June 24, 1992TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
INJURED HAD ASSEMBLED HUB AND BRAKE FOR 16G GRADER, HE THEN PUT AIR PRESSURE TO IT TO CHECK IT OUT. THERE ARE SIX SPRINGS AND KEEPERS THAT FLEW APART WHEN AIR PRESSURE WAS APPLIED. THE MECHA NIC PUT TOO MUCH AIR PRESSURE TO THE PARTS.
1991 · 1 incident
June 9, 1991TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaster mechanic, foreman, supervisorMACHINERY
EE CUT CHANNEL IRON FOR BRACE HE WAS ABOUT TO TRIM IT A LITTLE. HE STOOD CHANNEL IRON ON THE END PARELL OF THE PIPE TO TRIM OFF A LITTLE WHEN IT FELL ACROSS HISHAND THE CHANNEL CUT BRUISED AND BROKE ONE FINGER AND CUT FINGER.
1990 · 3 incidents
May 15, 1990TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EE WAS CLIMBING OVER SOME PIPES TO LEAVE HIS DOZER AND HELP SOME PEOPLE WITH SOME EQUIPMENT WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING HIS RIGHT KNEE DIRECTLY ONTO A PIPE.
April 30, 1990TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
THIRD MEMBER JAMMED ON FRAME AT THIRD MEMBER HOUSING, NOT ENOUGH ROOM TO INSTALL STRAIGHT IN, HAVE TO TAKE AT ANGLE, LET HOIST DOWN A LITTLE TO GET OUT OF JAM, THIRD MEMBER ROLLED ON GEAR CAUS ING EMPLOYEE PUTTING IN TO GET CAUGHT BETWEEN FRAME AND THIRD MEMBER. EMPLOYEE HAD CUTS ON CHIN, REQUIRING STITCHES, SCRATCHED CHEST.
HYD. HOSE TAKE 6P REEL ON BOOM WAS JAMMED. HE WAS TRYING TO TURN THE REEL, THE REEL IS SPRING LOADED AND WHILE HE WAS TRYING TO TURN THE REEL IT CAUGHT HIS THUMB
June 3, 1987TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE CHANGING DRA1 CABLE GOT FOREIGN OBJECT IN LEFT EYE.
October 23, 1986TX · Metal/Non-Metalcrane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, riggerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EMPLOYEE WAS PR9PARING CRACK ON DRAGLINE BOOM IN PREPARATION FOR WELDING EMPLOYEE WAS USING A DISC GRINDER AND LOST CONTROL OF GRINDER CUTTING A TENDON IN LEFT ARM
EMPLOYEE WAS IN BACK OF COMPANY PICKUP GETTING A TOOL OUT OF TOOLBOX & EMPLOYEE STEPPED ONE FOOT OUT ON BUMPER & BRACED HAND ON TAILGATE, WHICH WAS NOT LOCKED IN POSITION & EMPLOYEE FELL TO GR OUND.