Mining Incidents

TriCounty Materials and Services LP Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Russ Williams
Gainesville, TX, Cooke County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4104183

TriCounty Materials and Services LP has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $7K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2024–2025
Latest incident
Sep 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
92
citations
24
significant & substantial
$14,175
proposed penalties
$6,927
paid to date
49% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $7,248 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
43
inspections on record
555
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: 555 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

TriCounty Materials and Services LP has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $7K 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.
$14K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$7K
outstanding
80 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-08.
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 3,323 2 0 601.9
2025 Q3 4,112 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,561 1 0 219.3
2025 Q1 2,282 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,128 2 0 639.4
2024 Q3 1,961 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,447 1 0 408.7
2024 Q1 1,781 0 0 0.0
Show 50 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,591 1 0 628.5
2023 Q3 2,407 3 0 1246.4
2023 Q2 2,021 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,633 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,628 4 2 2457.0
2022 Q3 1,691 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,034 4 0 1966.6
2022 Q1 1,467 3 0 2045.0
2021 Q4 1,702 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,093 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,796 2 2 1113.6
2021 Q1 2,464 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,069 2 0 966.7
2020 Q3 2,438 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,819 1 0 354.7
2020 Q1 1,846 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,670 1 0 598.8
2019 Q3 1,758 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,496 1 1 400.6
2019 Q1 2,079 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 2,446 1 0 408.8
2018 Q3 2,591 1 0 386.0
2018 Q2 2,653 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 2,260 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 2,371 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,776 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,199 1 0 312.6
2017 Q1 3,403 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 3,486 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 4,230 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 4,383 2 0 456.3
2016 Q1 4,408 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,403 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,912 4 0 2092.1
2005 Q2 1,431 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 2,532 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 2,450 1 0 408.2
2004 Q3 5,230 1 1 191.2
2004 Q2 6,270 3 0 478.5
2004 Q1 5,636 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 6,765 7 2 1034.7
2003 Q3 5,240 3 0 572.5
2002 Q3 6,511 2 0 307.2
2002 Q2 10,812 7 2 647.4
2002 Q1 6,130 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 6,568 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 6,648 6 1 902.5
2001 Q2 5,047 7 3 1387.0
2001 Q1 3,761 11 7 2924.8
2000 Q4 528 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2025 · 3 incidents

September 19, 2025 TX · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
TriCounty Materials and Services LP · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was turning off the equipment and took a shortcut over the bottom of the ramp for the 2100. They lost footing and fell. When they fell, thier right ankle twisted and popped.

July 22, 2025 TX · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
TriCounty Materials and Services LP · Fall onto or against objects

EE had gotten off of the 336 excavator to turn off the crusher as rock was piling up on the belt. When approaching the crusher, EE slipped on a rock and hit EE's head on another rock when falling. EE had EE's hard hat on, but it came off during EE's fall.

March 25, 2025 TX · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
TriCounty Materials and Services LP · Struck against a moving object

EE was operating an articulated haul truck. EE said that a large piece of material was dropped into the bed of the haul truck EE was operating, twice on 3/25/25. EE said the first time caused EE's back to hurt and the second time made it worse.

2024 · 1 incident

September 11, 2024 TX · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer OTHER
TriCounty Materials and Services LP · Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Injured employee had squatted down to hold a hydraulic nozzle for supervisor. When EE squatted down EE heard EE's right knee pop and felt pain down EE's leg.

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