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Castroville Plant: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by William Clay Coleman
Medina County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4103464

Castroville Plant has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 1987.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1987
Latest incident
Aug 1987
Ownership history
  1. South Texas Aggregates Inc 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1988 0
1987 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Castroville Plant sits in Medina County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 3.1% of county employment.

Local economic context
ⓘ County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Medina County, Texas · Population 52,419
3.1%
Mining share of county employment
$73,462
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1987 · 1 incident

August 4, 1987 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
South Texas Aggregates Inc · Struck against a moving object

OPERATOR FAILED3TO CONTROL LOADER AS HE PASED AN AREA WITH A NEAR VERTICAL DIRT BERM ON EITHER SIDE. THE LEFT FRONT WHEEL CONTACTED THE BERM AND CLIMBED IT, CAUSING THE LOADER TO TURN OVER ON ITS SIDE 3