Mining Incidents

TULE RIVER/SUCCESS DAM Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Mitchell Brown
TULARE, Tulare County, CA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0405313

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2007–2010
Latest incident
Nov 2010
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
257
citations
58
significant & substantial
$62,792
proposed penalties
$62,051
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 24,801 2 0 80.6
2025 Q3 21,004 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 20,774 6 2 288.8
2025 Q1 20,055 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 21,301 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 20,320 5 1 246.1
2024 Q2 1,605 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,299 1 0 303.1
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 file

2010 · 1 incident

November 5, 2010 CA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Porterville Rock and Recycle Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

While flopping the (metal) "material fingers" the employee right index finger was pinched and while trying to remove his right index finger his left thumb was crushed on the left side.

2007 · 1 incident

January 2, 2007 CA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Porterville Rock and Recycle Inc · Fall from machine

Employee was washing the floor deck of a 355 Komatsu. Once finished he stepped down to the track and slipped with his right foot. His left foot became wedged in between the blade push beam and track frame as he fell from the top of the track to the ground level. The employee was immediately taken to the local emergency room and determined that he had broken his left ankle.