Texas Materials Group, Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
The employee was using a grinder to cut a piece of metal when it slipped and cut EE's upper knee.
Texas Materials Garfield Plant: 53 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal
Texas Materials Group, Inc
· Surface
Controlled by
CRH PLC
Austin,
Travis County,
TX
·
Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4104963
Texas Materials Garfield Plant has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 2014–2025
- Latest incident
- Jul 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
53
citations
5
significant & substantial
$8,415
proposed penalties
$8,240
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $175 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
35
inspections on record
484
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.Rate withheld: 484 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Texas Materials Garfield Plant has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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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
$8K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
47 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $318 in penalties contested before the Commission, $143 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-14.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.9.6%
significant & substantial
13.5%
high negligence or reckless
9.6%
reasonably likely or greater
19.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.8% low, 80.8% moderate, 13.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
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Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
1
citations taken to the federal commission · 2% of citations on record
- Settled 1 · 100%
0%
S&S designation survived the contest
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Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
55%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$318 proposed, $143 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2023-03-21.
Contested penalties
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A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
| Docket | Decision | Judge | Year | Proposed / upheld |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CENT 2023-0137 | Settlement | Simonton | 2023 | $318 → $143 |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Health sampling
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A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
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Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2025-10-15
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Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.16
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Respirable dust, <.1mg13
- Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
- Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (16)
| Date | Contaminant | Concentration | Limit | Conc / limit | Occupation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-15 | Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz | 0.15 | Screen/Scalper Operator | ||
| 2025-10-15 | Respirable dust, <.1mg | 0 | Cleanup Man | ||
| 2025-10-15 | Respirable dust, <.1mg | 0 | Cleanup Man | ||
| 2023-08-24 | Respirable dust, <.1mg | 0 | Front-end Loader Operator | ||
| 2023-08-24 | Respirable dust, <.1mg | 0 | Truck Driver | ||
| 2023-08-24 | Respirable dust, <.1mg | 0 | Cleanup Man | ||
| 2023-08-24 | Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz | 0.17 | Cleanup Man | ||
| 2019-06-25 | Respirable dust, <.1mg | 0 | Utility Man | ||
| 2019-06-25 | Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz | 0.12 | Truck Driver | ||
| 2019-06-25 | Respirable dust, <.1mg | 0 | Front-end Loader Operator | ||
| 2015-04-29 | Respirable dust, <.1mg | 0 | Cleanup Man | ||
| 2015-04-29 | Respirable dust, <.1mg | 0 | Washer Operator | ||
| 2012-11-15 | Respirable dust, <.1mg | 0 | Truck Driver | ||
| 2012-11-15 | Respirable dust, <.1mg | 0 | Utility Man | ||
| 2012-11-15 | Respirable dust, <.1mg | 0 | Screen/Scalper Operator | ||
| 2012-11-15 | Respirable dust, <.1mg | 0 | Front-end Loader Operator |
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Texas Materials Garfield Plant recorded 3.70 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
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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.3.70
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above 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 * | 3.70 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2024 * | 3.86 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2023 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2022 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2021 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2020 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2019 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2018 * | 5.64 | 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
- APAC Texas Inc 2012 to 2017
- Oldcastle Materials Texas 2017 to 2018
- Texas Materials Group, Inc 2018 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year | Employees |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 18 |
| 2025 | 17 |
| 2024 | 18 |
| 2023 | 15 |
| 2022 | 18 |
| 2021 | 15 |
| 2020 | 16 |
| 2019 | 13 |
| 2018 | 15 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2015 | 11 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| 2013 | 13 |
| 2012 | 14 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Texas Materials Garfield Plant sits in Travis County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.4% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.Travis County, Texas · Population 1,307,625
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$97,169
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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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 | 11,911 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2026 Q1 | 12,813 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q4 | 13,312 | 1 | 0 | 75.1 |
| 2025 Q3 | 14,161 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q2 | 14,284 | 1 | 1 | 70.0 |
| 2025 Q1 | 12,338 | 1 | 0 | 81.1 |
| 2024 Q4 | 12,700 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q3 | 13,129 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q2 | 13,649 | 2 | 0 | 146.5 |
| 2024 Q1 | 12,322 | 7 | 0 | 568.1 |
| 2023 Q4 | 10,430 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q3 | 12,501 | 1 | 0 | 80.0 |
| 2023 Q2 | 10,148 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q1 | 9,755 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q4 | 9,309 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q3 | 11,638 | 1 | 0 | 85.9 |
| 2022 Q2 | 12,763 | 1 | 0 | 78.4 |
| 2022 Q1 | 13,030 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q4 | 11,374 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q3 | 10,074 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q2 | 10,074 | 2 | 0 | 198.5 |
| 2021 Q1 | 8,287 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q4 | 9,069 | 3 | 0 | 330.8 |
| 2020 Q3 | 9,185 | 1 | 0 | 108.9 |
| 2020 Q2 | 7,923 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q1 | 9,036 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q4 | 8,332 | 1 | 0 | 120.0 |
| 2019 Q3 | 8,515 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q2 | 7,784 | 1 | 0 | 128.5 |
| 2019 Q1 | 7,998 | 2 | 0 | 250.1 |
| 2018 Q4 | 7,982 | 1 | 0 | 125.3 |
| 2018 Q3 | 9,254 | 1 | 0 | 108.1 |
| 2018 Q2 | 9,905 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q1 | 8,336 | 3 | 0 | 359.9 |
| 2017 Q4 | 8,362 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q3 | 6,476 | 1 | 0 | 154.4 |
| 2017 Q2 | 7,928 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q1 | 7,975 | 2 | 0 | 250.8 |
| 2016 Q4 | 9,589 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q3 | 9,080 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q2 | 8,226 | 1 | 0 | 121.6 |
| 2016 Q1 | 8,542 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q4 | 7,764 | 1 | 0 | 128.8 |
| 2015 Q3 | 8,683 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q2 | 7,159 | 1 | 0 | 139.7 |
| 2015 Q1 | 9,591 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q4 | 4,690 | 4 | 1 | 852.9 |
| 2014 Q3 | 5,357 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q2 | 11,752 | 2 | 1 | 170.2 |
| 2014 Q1 | 9,985 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q4 | 9,779 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q3 | 11,065 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q2 | 9,548 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q1 | 7,965 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q4 | 8,727 | 1 | 0 | 114.6 |
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file2025 · 1 incident
2024 · 1 incident
September 10, 2024
TX · Metal/Non-Metal
maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech
MACHINERY
Texas Materials Group, Inc · Struck by flying object
Employee was operating an angle grinder when EE felt a discomfort in EE's right eye. The next day EE was taken to a medical clinic and was prescribed an antibiotic eye drop.
2018 · 1 incident
August 9, 2018
TX · Metal/Non-Metal
haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Oldcastle Materials Texas · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee was ascending the steps of 10 wheeler when slipped and tried to catch self. This caused a strain to EE's left shoulder.
2014 · 1 incident
April 1, 2014
TX · Metal/Non-Metal
bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer
DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
APAC Texas Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Injured was climbing on a piece of equipment and his right foot struck the bottom of the step causing pain. he did not seek medical treatment until 04/09/2014 when his foot became swelling and he could not get his boot on. diagnosis tenosynovitis to foot and ankle build up of fluid.