Mining Incidents

Eagle Mountain Plant #55: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Lafarge Corp · Surface
Controlled by Lafarge S A
Tarrant County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4103248

Eagle Mountain Plant #55 has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 1986.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1986
Latest incident
Jan 1986
Ownership history
  1. Lafarge Corp 1984 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1989 12
1988 14
1987 15
1986 12
1985 13
1984 11
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Eagle Mountain Plant #55 sits in Tarrant County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.6% 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.
Tarrant County, Texas · Population 2,135,743
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$81,905
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

1986 · 1 incident

January 15, 1986 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Lafarge Corp · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

I NAME WAS HUR7ING HIS BACK AND HE BLAMED THE PAIN ON USING THE HAMMER & POSSIBLE BROKEN BONE IN HIS LOWER BACK. REQUIRE SURGERY INSTEAD WAS TAKING SOME DRUGS TO FIX HIS BACK PROBLEM BUT THER THERE WERE NO 1UARANTEE.