Mining Incidents

Red Oak Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Red Oak, Fulton County, GA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0900069

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
18
Years on record
2000–2024
Latest incident
Jul 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
77
citations
18
significant & substantial
$18,138
proposed penalties
$18,138
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 8,231 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 6,243 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,678 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,149 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,632 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 7,051 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,810 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,666 3 0 818.3
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

18 on file

2024 · 4 incidents

July 23, 2024 GA · Metal/Non-Metal rotary bucket excavator operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Materials Inc · Struck against stationary object

Operators machine was down. Mechanic was working on it. Operator rested right hand on stick while waiting. EE slid hand down and caught hand on a metal burr, cutting EE's palm.

June 14, 2024 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Materials Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Repairing crusher and got hand caught between spider and mainframe. This cause miner to have a crushing action on their right hand.

April 17, 2024 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Materials Inc · Struck by falling object

Loading a fuel tank on a trailer. Ladder fell down injuring right index finger.

February 13, 2024 GA · Metal/Non-Metal driller, highwall operator, highwall drill operator MACHINERY
Martin Marietta Materials Inc · Struck by flying object

Surface drill operator assisting mechanic removing internals of a 4-inch down hole hammer (off the drill). Inertia movement of internal piston caused it to knock the internal sleeve out of casing, striking driller in forehead. Driller received 3 sutures and returned to work immediately.

2019 · 1 incident

November 7, 2019 GA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Martin Marietta Materials Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE fractured the tip of left index finger.

2015 · 1 incident

August 14, 2015 GA · Metal/Non-Metal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant OTHER
Martin Marietta Materials Inc · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

At approximately 7:15 am Monday Morning, employee came and sat down in the plant manager's office. Employee stated he did not feel good. He stated he was having some chest pains and sweating real bad. Plant manager asked him if he needed to go to the hospital. Employee stated "yes". The Plant Manager drove him to the hospital.

2010 · 1 incident

July 6, 2010 GA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Martin Marietta Materials Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was helping to remove a bolt from the 4265 gyratory crusher when his right middle finger got caught between the large bolt and the crusher frame. The employee was taken for medical treatment and received stitches to close up the cut. He was released to full duty.

2007 · 1 incident

2006 · 1 incident

May 17, 2006 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Vulcan Constr. Materials, L.P. · Struck by flying object

Employee was removing the chute from the HP 500 crusher. He and a co-worker were cranking the chain hoist when the eye it was attached to broke loose. When the lifting eye came off, the chain hook hit the employee in the face causing the cut above his lip.

2005 · 1 incident

April 6, 2005 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Vulcan Constr. Materials, L.P. · Struck by falling object

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE SPLITTER AND ARM GUARD, EE RIGHT FOOT WAS STRUCK BY SPLITTER ARM GUARD WHEN LIFT EYE CAME LOSE

2002 · 2 incidents

August 30, 2002 GA · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator, crane operator MACHINERY
Vulcan Constr. Materials, L.P. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS LOOSENING A BOLT THAT HOLDS THE CUTTING EDGE ON THE UNILOADER. HE WAS USING AN ELECTRICAL WRENCH ON THE NUT ON TOP. THE BOLT IS COUNTERSUNK SO YOU DON'T NEED A WRENCH TO HOLD THE BOLT WHEN YOU ARE LOOSENING THE NUT. HOWEVER, EE WHENEE LOOSENED THE NUT THE BOLT CAME OFF OF THE COUNTERSUNK HOLE. EE HAD GLOVES ON SO HE PUSHED THE BOLT AND THE NUT TURNED AND CUT HIS FINGER.

February 13, 2002 GA · Metal/Non-Metal truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Vulcan Constr. Materials, L.P. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

MY FOOT SLIPPED INTO A HOLE AND MY RIGHT FOOT REMAINED OUTSIDE OF THE HOLE, BENDING MY BACK INTOAN AWKWARD POSITION. MY BACK POPPED AND STARTED TO HURT.

2001 · 5 incidents

October 29, 2001 GA · Metal/Non-Metal coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Vulcan Constr. Materials, L.P. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

DEVELOPED CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME OPERATING HYDRAULIC SHOVELS.

September 28, 2001 GA · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator, crane operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Vulcan Constr. Materials, L.P. · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEES WERE CHANGING SHANK PROTECTORS ON PIT LOADER BUCKET. THE LEFT SIDE WAS STUCK SO THEY HAD TO HIT IT WITH A 8 LB SLEDGE HAMMER. A PIECE OF METAL BROKE OFF THE SHANK PROTECTOR AND STRUC K EE IN THE LEFT LEG CAUSING A PUNCTURE WOUND IN THE FRONT OF HIS THIGH AND THE METAL LODGED UNDERNEATH THE SKIN ON THE BACK OF HIS LEG.

September 13, 2001 GA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Vulcan Constr. Materials, L.P. · Struck against a moving object

LOADER OPERATOR WAS OPERATING A 980G CAT LOADER ON THE SHIPPING YARD. HE RAN LOADER INTO A SMALL HOLE (POTHOLE) AND IT SHOOK HIM AROUND IN HIS SEAT. THIS CAUSED HIM TO STRAIN HIS BACK.

May 16, 2001 GA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Vulcan Constr. Materials, L.P. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE SECURING LOAD ON PICKUP, BUNGY CORD BROKE CAUSING METAL HOOK TO CUT RIGHT HAND.

May 15, 2001 GA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Vulcan Constr. Materials, L.P. · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

AS INSTALLING HYD. HOSE AND CLIMBING DOWN OFF BACKHOE #43, SLIPPED ON HYDRAULIC OIL SPILLED, SCRAPPED AND BRUISED RIGHT SHIN.

2000 · 1 incident