CHEW and ABEL MINES Metal/Non-Metal

Acme Brick Company · Surface

Controlled by Berkshire Hathaway Inc

Sealy, Austin County, TX · Intermittent

MSHA Mine ID: 4103361

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Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2015

citations

significant & substantial

$376

proposed penalties

$376

paid to date

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA

Quarter	Hours worked	Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4	0
2025 Q3	0
2025 Q2	2,890	0.0
2025 Q1	3,743	0.0
2024 Q4	0
2024 Q3	0
2024 Q2	1,064	0.0
2024 Q1	4,137	0.0

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

1 on file

November 30, 2002 TX · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator, crane operator POWERED HAULAGE

Acme Brick Company · Struck against a moving object

WHILE OPERATING A SCRAPER, EMPLOYEE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.