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.
Ash Grove Cement CompanyOperator
- 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.
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.
- Martin Marietta Materials,Inc.10fatal1,384 total
- Holcim US Inc9fatal1,450 total
- Marfork Coal Company, LLC7fatal1,500 total
- Ash Grove Cement Companythis operator4fatal1,434 total
- Drummond Company, Inc.3fatal1,402 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 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
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
4 recordedTruck 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.