Mining Incidents

Merryville Aggregate Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by SCG Investors LLC
Deridder, Vernon County, LA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1601594

Merryville Aggregate has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $453 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
2021–2022
Latest incident
Mar 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
41
citations
11
significant & substantial
$7,730
proposed penalties
$7,277
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $453 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2021
13
inspections on record
132
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: 132 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Merryville Aggregate has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $453 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$453
outstanding
40 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-26.
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 575 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 495 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 495 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 575 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 575 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 575 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 575 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 600 0 0 0.0
Show 13 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,865 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,060 1 0 326.8
2023 Q2 3,185 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,976 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3,783 10 2 2643.4
2022 Q3 7,765 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 8,998 17 4 1889.3
2022 Q1 8,770 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 7,777 6 0 771.5
2021 Q3 5,224 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 5,394 2 2 370.8
2021 Q1 9,312 2 2 214.8
2020 Q3 6,281 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2022 · 1 incident

March 16, 2022 LA · Metal/Non-Metal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Merryville Aggregates LLC (Delaware) · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was checking the water meter gauge on the hydrosizer when employee's leg slipped through the gap in the deck/stairs to the hydrosizer.

2021 · 2 incidents

June 23, 2021 LA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner ELECTRICAL
Merryville Aggregates LLC · Contact with electrical current

Employee was welding in dead cell (tied off appropriately) and welding machine was grounded appropriately. The wire to the machine was tugged on at the bottom, and the wire became compromised and shocked EE.

June 2, 2021 LA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Merryville Aggregates LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The laborer was feeding a conveyor belt through rollers. The conveyor belt was lowered completely to the ground while the miner was working on it. The miner pulled too hard on the conveyor at the same time that another miner was pulling on it and their hand went between the rollers and the conveyor belt.

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