Mining Incidents

Lithic Industries Metal/Non-Metal

Florence, Williamson County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4103923

Lithic Industries has $42K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1998–2019
Latest incident
Oct 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
126
citations
27
significant & substantial
$41,550
proposed penalties
$40,493
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,057 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
69
inspections on record
800
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: 800 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Lithic Industries has $42K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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.
$42K
proposed penalties
$42K
current assessed
$40K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
126 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-11.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 10,873 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 7,742 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 7,968 2 0 251.0
2025 Q1 8,703 2 0 229.8
2024 Q4 9,772 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 9,960 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 10,748 3 0 279.1
2024 Q1 10,794 1 0 92.6
Show 96 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 11,304 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 13,820 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 17,386 6 1 345.1
2023 Q1 16,798 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 16,906 3 1 177.5
2022 Q3 12,495 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 12,400 9 2 725.8
2022 Q1 14,236 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 16,439 6 1 365.0
2021 Q3 16,909 5 2 295.7
2021 Q2 21,827 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 15,741 4 1 254.1
2020 Q4 15,558 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 14,231 4 0 281.1
2020 Q2 17,485 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 13,581 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 14,673 9 1 613.4
2019 Q3 16,132 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 13,994 8 2 571.7
2019 Q1 17,686 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 3,221 6 2 1862.8
2018 Q3 16,384 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 18,450 3 0 162.6
2018 Q1 10,657 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 12,828 1 0 78.0
2017 Q3 11,724 9 6 767.7
2017 Q2 12,960 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 11,352 3 0 264.3
2016 Q4 9,960 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 8,184 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 9,216 1 1 108.5
2016 Q1 7,668 1 0 130.4
2015 Q4 954 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 10,320 1 0 96.9
2015 Q2 10,320 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 10,764 1 0 92.9
2014 Q4 9,216 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 9,732 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 9,600 3 1 312.5
2014 Q1 10,560 2 0 189.4
2013 Q4 9,920 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 10,560 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 11,220 1 0 89.1
2013 Q1 9,600 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,340 1 0 427.4
2012 Q3 9,120 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 7,044 1 0 142.0
2012 Q1 7,140 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 6,840 2 0 292.4
2011 Q3 9,600 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 11,040 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 12,828 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 9,560 2 0 209.2
2010 Q3 9,560 5 3 523.0
2010 Q2 10,992 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 14,080 2 1 142.0
2009 Q4 10,130 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 11,520 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 4,320 2 0 463.0
2009 Q1 3,600 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 13,056 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 11,520 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 4,280 1 0 233.6
2008 Q1 13,680 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 15,480 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 12,480 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 12,960 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 15,485 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 11,520 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 11,520 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 11,040 1 1 90.6
2006 Q1 12,960 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 10,560 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 14,160 1 0 70.6
2005 Q2 12,960 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 9,600 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 800 1 0 1250.0
2004 Q3 8,768 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 9,408 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 8,392 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,240 1 0 446.4
2003 Q3 9,600 2 0 208.3
2003 Q2 9,696 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 2,496 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,000 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 6,720 1 0 148.8
2002 Q2 10,560 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 7,228 4 1 553.4
2001 Q4 9,226 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 4,160 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 7,984 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 6,419 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 9,126 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 9,210 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 9,376 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 9,409 2 0 212.6
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2019 · 2 incidents

October 12, 2019 TX · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Quality Stone Company · Struck by falling object

A crew was loading the chopper and a rock fell and landed on EE's foot. Another worker took EE to Georgetown ER, and to my knowledge was released same day and told EE could return to work in a week. I'm still working on getting paperwork and a statement from employee

August 9, 2019 TX · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
Quality Stone Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

There were NO contributing conditions to this injury. Employee's e-cigarette exploded in employee's pocket on its own.

1998 · 1 incident

October 8, 1998 TX · Metal/Non-Metal shaft repair, skip tender, station tender POWERED HAULAGE
Quality Stone Company, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

OPERATOR WAS LOWERING MASS. THE LEO'S ARM WAS PINCHED BETWEEN BOOM & MASS. WHERE THEY CAME CLOSETOGETHER. THE LEFT FOREARM WAS PINCHED & TORE THE SKIN OPEN. NO BROKEN BONES NO SERIOUS INJURY

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The full compliance file on Lithic Industries

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.