Mining Incidents

Liberty Portable Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Linn, Osage County, MO  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2302295

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
2009–2025
Latest incident
Oct 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
30
citations
4
significant & substantial
$4,106
proposed penalties
$4,006
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 77 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 6,258 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 6,735 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,352 1 0 298.3
2024 Q4 3,651 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,689 1 0 271.1
2024 Q2 4,743 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 5,967 1 0 167.6
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

7 on file

2025 · 1 incident

October 10, 2025 MO · Metal/Non-Metal refuse truck driver, backfill truck driver, stock pile truck driver HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Capital Quarries Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee straightened after stemming a hole and felt a sharp pain in EE's right pectoral muscle that didn't go away for the rest of the day. Commented on it to 2 other EE's. Dull ache with certain movements triggering more intense pain. Worsened over the weekend.

2020 · 2 incidents

June 29, 2020 MO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Capital Quarries Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was adjusting impact crusher and one employee was raising and lowering cylinder and other employee was turning nut. When the one employee turned the nut the other employee pushed lever to lower cylinder, the other employee stuck hand back in quickly to re adjust and smashed two finger tips

April 8, 2020 MO · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Capital Quarries Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee walked up a bank to spray paint boundary line and turned to walked back down and feet came out from underneath EE and jarred EE's neck.

2017 · 1 incident

October 5, 2017 MO · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Capital Quarries Company · Fall onto or against objects

While climbing down off the machine the employee missed the last step of a two step ladder and turn and hit knee on the out rigger of the truck.

2016 · 1 incident

August 9, 2016 MO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Capital Quarries Company · Struck by flying object

The employee was dislodging a rock that was hung in a conveyor and a piece came back and struck above left eye above safety glasses.

2012 · 1 incident

October 10, 2012 MO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Capital Quarries Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The EE was in the process of locking up site. He walked over to the pit area and had to close the sliding gate and lock it. While doing so the EE pinched his two fingers between two fixed pieces of metal causing a small cut on 2 fingers. The EE received stitches at the local hospital.

2009 · 1 incident

February 12, 2009 MO · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Capital Quarries Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee stated that he skipped the 2007 hearing test so two years went by between tests. He stated that he had been wearing all hearing protection needed while running equipment. He believes his age has played a part in the hearing loss.