Mining Incidents

Ash Grove Cement CompanyOperator

Controlled by CRH PLC
MSHA Operator ID: L02019
Fatalities
4
Total incidents
1,434
Mines on record
11
Years on record
2000–2026

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.

Fatality-count percentile
94th

More recorded fatalities than 94% of operators on file.

Rank
#33of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
2.5×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
4
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

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

Get an email the moment a new MSHA-reportable accident lands at any mine on file under Ash Grove Cement Company. Useful for 105(c) defense intake, FMSHRC docket prep, and active client monitoring.

Top causes

  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 fatalities · 157 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS361 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)140 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY112 non-fatal
  • OTHER50 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE42 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
13
2025
28
2024
26
2023
33
2022
35
2021
29
2020
29
2019
48
2018
33
2017
41
2016
34 (1f)
2015
39
2014
62
2013
52
2012
40
2011
36
2010
36
2009
50
2008
88
2007
54
2006
50
2005
75
2004
69 (1f)

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

4 recorded
Fall from machine

Employee was found on the floor of the #2 slurry tank. Employee had significant head injuries and was pronounced dead by the Justice of the Peace. The accident scene is currently under a Section 103(k) order and subject to MSHA investigation.

Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

Truck driver's lid got stuck on safety cage and when he tried to pry it free, it came loose and sprung and hit him. He fell 11 feet. This was told to me by Ralph Rodriguez.