Mining Incidents

Conroe Wet Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Conroe, Montgomery County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104196

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2015–2016
Latest incident
Nov 2016
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
113
citations
35
significant & substantial
$49,349
proposed penalties
$49,349
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
2021 Q4 100 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 100 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 400 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 815 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 300 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 914 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 788 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 13,829 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

3 on file

2016 · 1 incident

November 18, 2016 TX · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec MACHINERY
Liberty Materials, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employees were cleaning under the main feed belt. Foreman failed to properly lockout plant. Pulley became energized & employee that was using a rod to turn the pulley was struck on hand/side of face(small cut on head). Broke two fingers/lacerated both tendons on left hand(pinky/ring fingers. Everyone involved was suspended & entire plant was re-trained on LO-TO-TO procedures.

2015 · 2 incidents

April 20, 2015 TX · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Liberty Materials, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE was conducting maintenance on the truck scale. A trucker drove onto the scale despite EE telling the trucker to stop and wait for him to finish. The scale shifted slightly and smashed EE's finger, causing the right ring finger to break.

March 2, 2015 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Liberty Materials, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

The Loader Operator was loading on-road commercial trucks with concrete sand. The operator strained his neck while getting a bucket full of material out of the stockpile. A doctor visit revealed the injury to be a minor strain. The employee was on light duty until 3-9-15. The suspension on the loaders chair was replaced to insure a similar injury does not occur again.