Mining Incidents

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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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2002
Latest incident
Nov 2002
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
3
citations
0
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 Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 0 0 0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 2,890 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,743 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 1,064 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 4,137 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

2002 · 1 incident

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.