Mining Incidents

Vulcan Construction Materials, LLCOperator

Controlled by Vulcan Materials Company
MSHA Operator ID: L16168
Fatalities
11
Total incidents
2,443
Mines on record
243
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
99th

More recorded fatalities than 99% of operators on file.

Rank
#5of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
6.8×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
11
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.

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Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE3 fatalities · 63 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY2 fatalities · 85 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 220 non-fatal
  • FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL1 fatality
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS337 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)152 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
23
2025
84
2024
91
2023
87 (1f)
2022
71 (1f)
2021
71
2020
61 (1f)
2019
64 (2f)
2018
58
2017
49
2016
68 (1f)
2015
81
2014
71
2013
55 (1f)
2012
66

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

11 recorded
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was assisting repair/replace toggle plate and toggle plate bearings on the jaw crusher when they suffered a pinning type injury.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

A contract miner died when the compactor EE was operating overturned, pinning EE beneath the cab. As the compactor was traveling in reverse, the compactor's left tire went off a four-foot embankment causing the compactor to overturn.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was operating a pick-up truck on the -330 bench. A haul truck turned onto the -330 bench. The haul truck operator indicated they did not see the pick-up truck resulting in fatal injuries.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Plant Manager aggravated a pre-existing injury to the right heel tearing a blood blister while walking over a level drill bench. On July 20th, EE died after complications following surgery after an x-ray revealed a broken right heel bone and torn achilles tendon.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Pending Investigation - Victim was leveling material in a trench made for laying electrical conduit, manager was operating front-end loader above. The front-end loader was being used to back fill the trench when the bank collapsed causing the front-end loader to slide into the trench. The victim was fatally injured when victim was pinned between loader and jersey block.

Struck by falling object

The injured employee was working in the North East corner of the pit loading shot rock. While waiting for the haul truck to return to the muck pile, the excavator was struck by several large rocks. No one witnessed the accident. The haul truck driver discovered the accident scene and rescue/recovery efforts begun. The excavator operator was fatally injured.

Drowning

Employee was operating a haul truck transporting material from the wash bins to a stockpile located Northwest of two settling ponds. On the return trip to the wash bins, the haul truck traveled through a berm on the left side of the haul road, went over an embankment and overturned on its left side in the settling pond.