Contact with hot objects or substances
4 MEN WERE GOUGING WHEN A SMALL FIRESTARTED. THE FIRE WAS EXTIQUISHED AND THE MEN WENT BACK TO WORK. WHEN TWO OF THE MEN WERE SUDDENLY ENGULFED IN FLAMES.
TXI (A/K/A Texas Industries Inc)Operator
Controlled by Texas Industries Inc
MSHA Operator ID: L00418
- Fatalities
- 4
- Total incidents
- 482
- Mines on record
- 32
- Years on record
- 2000–2005
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 94% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
This operator
4
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- TXI (A/K/A Texas Industries Inc)this operator4fatal482 total
- Oak Grove Resources LLC3fatal481 total
- Calmat Company3fatal490 total
- Freeport-McMoRan Safford Inc2fatal472 total
- Hecla Limited2fatal492 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.
For counsel + compliance teams
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Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE2 fatalities · 46 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 95 non-fatal
- IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS164 non-fatal
- MACHINERY61 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)55 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2005
12
2004
80
2003
83 (1f)
2002
73 (1f)
2001
105
2000
129 (2f)
Mines on record
- Arcosa Boulder Plant #1604CO
- PRICE AGGREG PLANTLA
- PERRYVILLE AGGREGATES PLANTLA
- Plant 6LA
- MerryvilleLA
- WOODWORTH AGGREGATE PLANTLA
- Woodworth AggregatesLA
- DENKMAN DREDGE & PLANTLA
- Amrize Honey Island OperationsLA
- Sun Minerals, LLCLA
- Jena Aggregates PlantLA
- Harvell, Hartner, DunniseLA
- Isabel OperationsLA
- RECYCLE SLA MOBILE CRUSHER #3LA
- Stanley Hornsby Dredge &PlantLA
- TXI Red RiverOK
- Mill Creek Limestone QuarryOK
- Bridgeport Stone PlantTX
- Midlothian Quarry and PlantTX
- CLODINE PITTX
- Tec Minerals Plant #3TX
- Arcosa Streetman Plant # 1605TX
- Beckett S & G PitTX
- AUSTIN AGGR MARBLE FALLS EASTTX
- Hunter Cement PlantTX
- TIN TOP SAND AND GRAVEL PLANTTX
- Green S & G PlantTX
- Paradise Plant 1390TX
- Tec Minerals Plant #7TX
- TXI Owen PlantTX
- Bells/Savoy Aggregate OperationsTX
- HUNTER STONE PLANTTX
Fatalities under this operator
4 recordedContact with hot objects or substances
FELLOW EMPLOYEES ALLEGE THAT DRAG CONVEYOR WAS LOCKED UP DUE TO CLOGGED CLINKER. WHEN CLINKER WAS DUMPED, IT HIT STANDING WATER CAUSING STEAM. THE STEAM BURNED EMPLOYEE ON 47% OF HIS BODY.
Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms
EE WALKING OR GRATING AT ELEVATION 719 TO RETREIVE TORCH SET. EE WAS NOT TIED OFF WHILE EXPLOSED TO FALL HAZARD. EE WAS WEARING PERSONAL FALL ARREST SYSTEM HARNESS AND 2 LANDYARDS. EE STEPPED ON GRATING THAT HE INSTALLED THE DAY BEFORE BUT WHICH HAD NOT YET BEEN WELDED TO THE STRUCTURE. THE GRATE 107 X 24 SHIFTED AND EE FELL 48"" TO CONCRETE BELOW.
Struck against a moving object
A CUSTOMER DRIVING A DUMP TRUCK WAS STRUCK BY A TRAIN WHILE ENTERING THE PLANT. HE DID NOT STOP AT THE STOP SIGN. THE TRAIN PUSHED THE TRUCK APPROX. 800 FT DOWN THE TRACKS. THE DRIVER DIED OF RESULTING INJURIES.