Mining Incidents

GCC Rio Grande, Inc.Mining Incidents in 2025

All MSHA-reportable accidents at GCC Rio Grande, Inc. operations in 2025. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2025
1
Total incidents
6
Year
2025

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS3 incidents
  2. 02ENTRAPMENT1 incident
  3. 03POWERED HAULAGE1 incident
  4. 04HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 incident

All incidents in 2025

Accident type, without injuries

Mill Manlift gearbox broke. Miner was entrapped in manlift for 38 minutes. Miner egressed out emergency exit of manlift roof.

Struck against a moving object

A delivery driver employed by a water supply vendor was in route to the facility when the tanker truck overturned and slid off the road. Investigation ongoing

Struck by flying object

Miner was cleaning the tower using a bar and a sledgehammer. Miner hit the bar with a hammer; a piece of metal broke off and flew into the miner's eye.

Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

Miner was shoveling rock into buckets at the tail end of the limestone tunnel and hauling the buckets outside the tunnel to dump. Miner hurt their lower back in the process.

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee was pushing forks together on a telehandler when EE felt a pain in EE's left bicep.

Struck by falling object

Employee was torqueing studs at Finish Mill. Employee dropped nut on foot.

Other years on record

Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) accident records, kept current weekly. Operator identity is MSHA's operator_id on the accident record; records are scoped to GCC Rio Grande, Inc.'s numeric MSHA operator ID.