Mining Incidents

Gordon Limestone: 72 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Leuders, Shackelford County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4105534

Gordon Limestone has $33K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2022
Latest incident
Mar 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2020
72
citations
16
significant & substantial
$33,082
proposed penalties
$30,988
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,094 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
14
inspections on record
185
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 185 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Gordon Limestone has $33K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 0 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$33K
proposed penalties
$33K
current assessed
$31K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
69 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-03.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
22.2%
significant & substantial
1.4%
high negligence or reckless
22.2%
reasonably likely or greater
25.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.6% low, 93.1% moderate, 1.4% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

Gordon Limestone recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.17 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2025 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 5.11 5.11 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Gordon Limestone Company, LLC 2020 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 27
2025 26
2024 25
2023 24
2022 21
2021 16
2020 9
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Gordon Limestone sits in Shackelford County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 11.5% 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.
Shackelford County, Texas · Population 3,169
11.5%
Mining share of county employment
$64,659
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2026 Q2 10,229 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 9,570 9 0 940.4
2025 Q4 10,036 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 9,721 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 10,035 7 2 697.6
2025 Q1 9,940 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 9,525 9 2 944.9
2024 Q3 10,060 0 0 0.0
Show 15 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 9,890 4 1 404.4
2024 Q1 12,917 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 9,855 12 0 1217.7
2023 Q3 9,760 10 3 1024.6
2023 Q2 9,870 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 8,800 10 5 1136.4
2022 Q4 8,710 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 11,204 4 1 357.0
2022 Q2 10,084 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 9,135 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 9,735 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 9,040 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 8,500 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 4,150 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,420 4 1 2816.9
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2022 · 1 incident

March 29, 2022 TX · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Gordon Limestone Company, LLC · Fall from machine

Employee was operating articulated dump truck. The load was wider than the bed. They misjudged the width and struck a high voltage powerline pole. The pole broke overhead line fell onto truck. Before operator could get to fire extinguisher, fire was too large. Operator got scared and jumped from truck causing damage to their right ankle.