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Troy Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Ford Construction Company · Surface

Controlled by John H Ford

Troy, Obion County, TN · Active

MSHA Mine ID: 4002271

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Fatalities: 2
Total incidents: 3
Years on record: 2004–2015
Latest incident: Jun 2015

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

173

citations

significant & substantial

$40,565

proposed penalties

$38,410

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	Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4	4,128	0	0.0
2025 Q3	5,907	0	0.0
2025 Q2	6,074	0	0.0
2025 Q1	5,862	1	170.6
2024 Q3	7,260	3	413.2
2023 Q4	5,851	0	0.0
2023 Q3	8,426	0	0.0
2022 Q4	6,389	0	0.0

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

Fatalities at this mine

2 recorded

July 10, 2013 TN · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer Fatality · MACHINERY

Ford Construction Company · Unclassified, insufficient data

Operator working at site pushing material and apparently went over earthen wall into water.

September 28, 2004 TN · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE

Ford Construction Company · Fall onto or against objects

Not sure yet. Still under investigation. Theory #1: Natural death. Theory #2: A rock fell from conveyor and struck employee at a glancing blow, causing him to strike metal structure fracturing 12 ribs and puncturing right lung. There were no witnesses.

Reportable incidents

1 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2015 · 1 incident

June 13, 2015 TN · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE

Ford Construction Company · Struck by flying object

The employee reports that a piece of material (he calls iron ore) bounced off of the conveyor belt and struck him in the head. He then reports that he later took himself to the hospital. The employee reports a concussion. At this time the actual nature of extent of injuries is unknown. The incident was very recently reported and is being investigated.