Mining Incidents

Clarksville Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Vulcan Materials Company
Clarksville, Montgomery County, TN  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4000090

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
20
Years on record
2001–2023
Latest incident
May 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
50
citations
13
significant & substantial
$55,446
proposed penalties
$48,350
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 21,350 1 0 46.8
2025 Q3 13,033 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 25,413 2 1 78.7
2024 Q4 4,726 1 0 211.6
2024 Q3 10,458 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 10,968 2 2 182.3
2024 Q1 9,478 1 0 105.5
2023 Q4 12,955 0 0 0.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
April 3, 2006 TN · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman Fatality · ELECTRICAL
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Contact with electrical current

The employee suffered a fatal electrocution injury while engaged in positioning the electrical MCC building. The boom truck became energized when contacting overhead power lines.

Reportable incidents

19 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2023 · 1 incident

May 31, 2023 TN · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Struck by falling object

Employee placed the loader bucket pin on top of the bucket. Employee then bent down to guide the operator to properly line up the bucket/boom arm hole. The pin rolled off the bucket and hit the employee's head.

2022 · 1 incident

December 3, 2022 TN · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE claims rolled right ankle while walking up a clean set of stairs using 3 pts. of contact.

2021 · 1 incident

November 3, 2021 TN · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech OTHER
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was washing out and when EE bent down, EE felt a pop in their knee. Sought treatment on 06/24/2022.

2017 · 1 incident

November 27, 2017 TN · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer OTHER
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was transported to local hospital due to chest pain, diagnosed with heart attack due to blood clots, and later through investigation by MSHA was determined not to be work related.

2014 · 1 incident

April 29, 2014 TN · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Lifting out planetary from final drive. Fingers caught Lifting out planetary from final drive on loader. Fingers got pinched between planetary and hub. Resulting in index and middle finger getting cut. 6 stitches in middle finger and 5 stitches in index finger.

2010 · 1 incident

March 10, 2010 TN · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was attempting to exit crane holding on to hand bars, foot slipped and he caught self by bars to prevent falling. EE twisted his left wrist.

2006 · 8 incidents

October 18, 2006 TN · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Fall from machine

The EE was on the truck platform changing an air filter and lost his footing and fell from the platform, resulting in a fracture to the pelvis area.

June 30, 2006 TN · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman OTHER
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Unclassified, insufficient data

Employee said he does not know how or when or where he got hurt. He told another employee on 6/30/06 that his shoulder was hurting.

June 30, 2006 TN · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was standing on a board across a pipe guard, started down and lost his footing falling about 3 feet.

June 29, 2006 TN · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Fall onto or against objects

Empoyee working on platform about 10 ft in the air. He was coming down stairs with tools in booth hands when he fell striking his back on stairs.

January 25, 2006 TN · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee was using a come-a-long to pull the head box away from a broken grease line on the #1 head section. After pulling the head box away he attempted to remove the broken elbow with an extraction and come-a-long. Brake came loose & handle struck him in the mouth resulting in a laceration to lip and broken tooth.

2004 · 1 incident

2003 · 3 incidents

October 17, 2003 TN · Metal/Non-Metal NO VALUE FOUND

ATTEMPTING TO GET INTO TRUCK OPENING DOOR, LOST BALANCE JERKED NECK AND RIGHT SHOULDER.

October 8, 2003 TN · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman OTHER
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Unclassified, insufficient data

ON 10-8-03 WE RECEIVED LETTER THAT FOLLOWS CLAIMING HEARING LOSS & LUNG DISEASE - HE HAD NOT BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH EITHER. ON 10/17/03 HE HAD ANOTHER ACCIDENT, REPORT FOLLOWS.

September 22, 2003 TN · Metal/Non-Metal coal sampler SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

(ALLEGED ACCIDENT) EE STATED HE WAS WALKING THROUGH THE SHOP AND SLIPPED ON THE FLOOR. HE STATED HE CAUGHT HIMSELF AND DID NOT FALL.

2001 · 1 incident