Mining Incidents

GCH Materials Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Malcolm Petty
Rainbow, Somervell County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4105174

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2021–2025
Latest incident
Aug 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
67
citations
21
significant & substantial
$18,961
proposed penalties
$18,961
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 13,571 4 0 294.7
2025 Q3 9,251 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 11,981 4 0 333.9
2025 Q1 11,884 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 11,335 3 0 264.7
2024 Q3 10,626 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 11,801 10 4 847.4
2024 Q1 10,710 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

2025 · 1 incident

2024 · 1 incident

July 19, 2024 TX · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec POWERED HAULAGE
Gaines County Harvesters, Inc. · Struck by falling object

conveyer belt had stopped on plant employee stopped and got out of loader to check belt. Rock fell off and hit employee in the face.

2021 · 1 incident

December 23, 2021 TX · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Gaines County Harvesters, Inc. · Struck by rolling or sliding object

EE was cleaning by plant when material slide began sliding and hit EE in the shoulder causing injury, was taken to ER. Plant was shut down, then reinforced the material slide with anchor bolts and chains.