Mining Incidents

Radix Westside Metal/Non-Metal

Radix Quarries · Underground
Springfield, Greene County, MO  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2302440

Radix Westside has $46K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2019–2024
Latest incident
May 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
171
citations
23
significant & substantial
$46,042
proposed penalties
$42,231
paid to date
92% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,811 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
64
inspections on record
1,390
inspection hours
12.3
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.
171 citations across 1,390 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Radix Westside has $46K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 3 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.
$46K
proposed penalties
$43K
current assessed
$42K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
164 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-28.
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 9,059 7 1 772.7
2025 Q3 9,022 5 0 554.2
2025 Q2 5,822 6 2 1030.6
2025 Q1 7,926 4 0 504.7
2024 Q4 7,523 3 0 398.8
2024 Q3 8,253 3 1 363.5
2024 Q2 7,738 1 0 129.2
2024 Q1 8,980 4 1 445.4
Show 39 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 7,897 5 0 633.2
2023 Q3 9,476 1 0 105.5
2023 Q2 7,825 4 0 511.2
2023 Q1 8,909 5 1 561.2
2022 Q4 7,884 8 0 1014.7
2022 Q3 11,329 9 0 794.4
2022 Q2 8,589 10 0 1164.3
2022 Q1 5,683 5 0 879.8
2021 Q4 6,924 5 1 722.1
2021 Q3 8,537 3 2 351.4
2021 Q2 9,122 3 1 328.9
2021 Q1 5,921 3 0 506.7
2020 Q4 6,848 9 3 1314.3
2020 Q3 5,597 6 0 1072.0
2020 Q2 6,750 5 1 740.7
2020 Q1 5,113 5 0 977.9
2019 Q4 6,347 7 0 1102.9
2019 Q3 5,575 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 5,621 2 0 355.8
2019 Q1 4,346 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 5,941 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 4,668 1 0 214.2
2018 Q2 5,141 4 0 778.1
2018 Q1 4,042 7 3 1731.8
2017 Q4 4,312 5 1 1159.6
2017 Q3 3,200 3 1 937.5
2017 Q2 2,862 1 0 349.4
2017 Q1 1,514 1 0 660.5
2016 Q4 1,927 1 1 518.9
2016 Q3 1,476 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,637 5 1 3054.4
2016 Q1 1,065 5 1 4694.8
2015 Q4 545 2 0 3669.7
2015 Q3 206 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 149 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 87 1 1 11494.3
2014 Q4 94 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 214 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 266 1 0 3759.4
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2024 · 1 incident

May 14, 2024 MO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Radix Quarries · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Miners were working to remove bolts from the cone crusher utilizing an air impact gun and a wrench for back up. A miner's right pinky finger was smashed between the cone and wrench handle while holding the wrench as backup when the air impact was engaged.

2021 · 2 incidents

September 13, 2021 MO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Radix Quarries · Struck by falling object

EE lifted engine hood to change engine air filter. EE forgot to secure hood brace and hood fell on EE hard hat.

August 31, 2021 MO · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Radix Quarries · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE was helping remove bucket pin. EE tried to catch pin when it came out and hand got pinched between pin and bucket. After lingering pain, EE sought medical treatment on 11/09/2021 making injury reportable

2020 · 2 incidents

March 12, 2020 MO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, faceman, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Radix Quarries · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was using a retractable blade box cutter to cut detonation chord when the blade went through the cord and cut EE's thumb

January 20, 2020 MO · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Radix Quarries · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee was pulling the door of a 988 closed when employee felt something pinch and /or pull in lower back. Employee has had multiple doctors visits, with not finite information until recently. An MRI revealed bulging of discs, what was treated with steroid injections as of yesterday 2/26/2020. We believe this has triggered an MSHA re-portable event.

2019 · 1 incident

May 8, 2019 MO · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Radix Quarries · Fall onto or against objects

Getting off an excavator and slipped and fell on a rock. It was rainy and slick.

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The full compliance file on Radix Westside

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.