Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher #3 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Doug Walterscheid
Channing, Oldham County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4104605

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
2020–2026
Latest incident
Mar 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
129
citations
31
significant & substantial
$37,997
proposed penalties
$29,416
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 23,761 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 22,748 4 0 175.8
2025 Q2 17,638 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 14,028 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 14,894 3 0 201.4
2024 Q3 13,556 6 1 442.6
2024 Q2 15,345 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 13,886 10 1 720.1
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

7 on file

2026 · 1 incident

March 30, 2026 TX · Metal/Non-Metal groundman, yardman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
J. Lee Milligan, Inc. · Struck by falling object

employee was helping replace a cone liner using a sledge hammer to loosen three inch nuts from liner while striking the nut broke loos resulting in the nut falling on employees foot breaking little toe on right foot requiring 9 stitches

2024 · 1 incident

August 2, 2024 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
J. Lee Milligan, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

employee stepped off trailer rolling left ankle resulting in hairline fracture returned to duty after missing 2 days of duty

2023 · 2 incidents

January 4, 2023 TX · Metal/Non-Metal groundman, yardman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
J. Lee Milligan, Inc. · Struck by flying object

Employee was using a pry bar to install a wiper on a sand belt when the pry bar slipped striking a second employee in the right forearm causing fracture.

January 4, 2023 TX · Metal/Non-Metal groundman, yardman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
J. Lee Milligan, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was replacing screens, screen slipped out of hand

2022 · 1 incident

May 11, 2022 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
J. Lee Milligan, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was organizing a tool trailer, EE stood a sprocket up on it's side, attempted to it up

2021 · 1 incident

May 17, 2021 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
J. Lee Milligan, Inc. · Fall from machine

Employee changing fuel filter on loader. Had build up of mud on boots, slipped from loader step.

2020 · 1 incident

March 19, 2020 TX · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman NONPOWERED HAULAGE
J. Lee Milligan, Inc. · Struck by falling object

While attempting to hitch trailer to pickup, the weld on the trailer broke. The trailer fell onto miner.