Employee suffered a neck strain requiring 3 days of restricted duty when the rear bumper of the employee's front end loader struck the ground while reversing. This was due to the employee operating in an unauthorized area next to a ramp in a manner in which the employee could not control the loader.
Brierfield Metal/Non-Metal
Ready Mix USA, LLC
· Surface
Controlled by
Cemex S A
Brierfield,
Bibb County,
AL
·
Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0103539
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2022–2024
- Latest incident
- Apr 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
11
citations
3
significant & substantial
$2,254
proposed penalties
$2,254
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q4 | 8,510 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q3 | 1,435 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024 Q3 | 793 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q2 | 767 | 1 | 1 | 1303.8 |
| 2024 Q1 | 7,173 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q4 | 10,481 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q3 | 2,466 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file2024 · 1 incident
April 25, 2024
AL · Metal/Non-Metal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
POWERED HAULAGE
Ready Mix USA, LLC · Struck against a moving object
2022 · 1 incident
October 28, 2022
AL · Metal/Non-Metal
utility man, shift tech, service/dump truck operator
HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Ready Mix USA, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects
Employee was attempting to remove a guard from a portable cone crusher in order to clean the area with a skidsteer and injured their neck. This was a re-aggravation of an injury originally received in a car crash years prior. Employee was placed on restricted duty until 3/6/23 when they underwent surgery to repair the damages.