Improper procedure performed, improper PPE, and not following SOP. *A customer truck driver fell from a large container mounted on the trailer of the truck while descending the container. The customer truck driver died from the injuries on August 7, 2023.
Superior Silica Sands LLCOperator
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 38
- Mines on record
- 8
- Years on record
- 2010–2025
Safety benchmark
Recorded fatalities relative to other operators with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 739 operators with at least one recorded fatality.
More recorded fatalities than 73% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- Star Mine Operations, LLC2fatal38 total
- Superior Silica Sands, LLCthis operator2fatal38 total
- Osaka Mining Corporation1fatal38 total
- Zeotech Corporation1fatal39 total
- United Salt Hockley, LLC1fatal39 total
Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA operators with at least one recorded fatality. Industry mean is the average across that same population. Peers are sampled by closest total-incident count, regardless of fatality outcome.
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Top causes
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 7 non-fatal
- NONPOWERED HAULAGE1 fatality
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS15 non-fatal
- MACHINERY5 non-fatal
- OTHER4 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE2 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedOn June 23, 2018 at approximately 9:20 am an employee mounted a pair of slow moving rail cars to apply the brakes. The employee fell and was struck by the pair of freewheeling hopper rail cars. The employee was fatally injured because of the fall and being struck by the moving rail cars.