Mining Incidents

Salado USA Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Third Brick LLC
Florence, Williamson County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4104216

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
30
Years on record
2002–2025
Latest incident
Jan 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
299
citations
56
significant & substantial
$242,872
proposed penalties
$179,342
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 21,397 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 29,308 5 1 170.6
2025 Q2 2,024 1 1 494.1
2025 Q1 39,085 30 1 767.6
2024 Q4 2,144 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,334 17 8 7283.6
2024 Q2 44,340 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 41,260 7 0 169.7
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
January 30, 2025 TX · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Salado Operations · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee in the thin veneer area was crushed by a pallet of stone that was placed on them by another employee in a wheel loader.

Reportable incidents

29 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2022 · 2 incidents

September 23, 2022 TX · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer MACHINERY
Salado Operations · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was loosening mechanism that lowers saw on veneer saw. device failed and lowered quickly causing employees hand to become pinched. as a result the employee got a laceration on EE's left hand that require stitches.

June 2, 2022 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Salado Operations · Struck by falling object

Was picking up a piece of stone and it slipped from their grip and fell on their foot.

2021 · 2 incidents

October 21, 2021 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Salado Operations · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

RIGHT THUMB GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK SLAB AND MACHINE CUTTERS.

July 12, 2021 TX · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Salado Operations · Struck by falling object

pushing trash on the discharge ramp, EE was pushing by hand and another rock fell on hand. Crushed left thumb.

2019 · 2 incidents

December 6, 2019 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Salado Operations · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was working behind the chopper stacking rock on pallets. While stacking rock on pallets a stone slipped out of their hands. While trying to catch the stone after it slipped out of their hands they pinched finger between the stone that slipped out of their hands and a stone that was on the pallet.

January 21, 2019 TX · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec STRIKING OR BUMPING
Salado Operations · Struck by falling object

Worker was reaching to pick up a box, bumped into a pallet of finished material and knocked a rock off of the pallet on to the top of their foot .

2018 · 5 incidents

December 18, 2018 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Salado Operations · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Injured employee sprained shoulder while lifting a rock.

October 22, 2018 TX · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Salado Operations · Struck by falling object

The injured employee was palatalizing rocks when another employee dropped a rock on the injured employee's foot behind the steel toe portion of the boot.

May 18, 2018 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Salado Operations · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was stapling poultry netting to a pallet. The board EE was stapling split, EE slipped and punctured EE's left wrist with the staple gun.

May 12, 2018 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Salado Operations · Struck by falling object

Employee was chopping rock and smashed finger. Employee failed drug test during the accident investigation and was terminated.

April 17, 2018 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Salado Operations · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was chipping rock and missed with the hammer, resulting in an injury to index finger.

2017 · 3 incidents

September 19, 2017 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Salado Operations · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE was loading the table in the jag shop with slabs of rock. There were two slabs on the table, the top one was not setting flat. EE then picked up the top slab with a rock bar to get the small rocks out from under it. The rock bar slipped off crushing two fingers under the slab on EE's left hand.

May 17, 2017 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Salado Operations · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was taking rock off of a conveyor belt to place in a metal box. While grabbing one rock another rock came off at the same time landing on employee's left index finger.

March 10, 2017 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Salado Operations · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

The employee was talking to a mechanic about a problem with the skid loader. Mechanic was finishing up the repair and heard a noise. The employee went to the west side of the wet saw placed left hand on the gantry travel rail resulting in hand being run over by the gantry travel gear.

2016 · 4 incidents

October 10, 2016 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Salado Operations · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

worker was removing rock from a conveyor to place on a pallet. Another worker working across from IE was doing the same. one reached to grab a rock the other was going to break a rock and make smaller with a hammer. They both went for the same rock the EE with the hammer struck the left hand middle finger causing a smashed tip of finger.

September 1, 2016 TX · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman MACHINERY
Salado Operations · Struck by flying object

The worker operating the 321e wheel loader noticed that the cobra wet saw was traveling along the gantry wall before the blade had exited the rock. The worker went to hit the E stop to stop the saw, before worker could get there the blade broke into 3 pieces and separated the shroud from the saw sending it over the gantry wall striking the operator.

August 27, 2016 TX · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Salado Operations · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was lifting rock off of a table to place on a pallet for packaging.

April 25, 2016 TX · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
RLF Salado Quarries, LLC · Struck by falling object

The incident happened in the dimensional cut shop. The worker was using a wet polisher to finish a slab. When done EE would take slab and stack it on edge on a pallet. The slabs shifted and several fell over landing on top of the worker's left foot. EE did have safety boots on.

2015 · 4 incidents

July 27, 2015 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
RLF Salado Quarries, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING WIRE MESH ON A PALLET USING A STAPLE GUN ONE STAPLE WENT THROUGH THE WOOD INTO HIS FINGER.EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN TRAINED USING THIS TOOL.

May 4, 2015 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
RLF Salado Quarries, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Miner was leveling a dump truck took a misstep and wrenched his lower back.

January 24, 2015 TX · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
RLF Salado Quarries, LLC · Struck by falling object

The miner was working at a wet saw. He had a rock in his hand that weighed about 12 to 15 pounds. He then struck the rock with a 3-pound hammer. The rock split in half. One piece stayed in his hand ad the other hit miner on his right knee.

January 7, 2015 TX · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
RLF Salado Quarries, LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Work area has slurry. The miner was walking with board, slipped and came down on left knee. Refused medical attention until 7 days later.

2014 · 2 incidents

June 4, 2014 TX · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec MACHINERY
RLF Salado Quarries, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was working at the rock splitter cleaning between rollers and a rock came down the roller table crushing pinky finger on right hand.

May 7, 2014 TX · Metal/Non-Metal mechanic helper SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
RLF Salado Quarries, LLC · Fall from machine

Employee was working on a machine and fell off about 8' while doing maintenance saddled a sheet of metal hurt groin area left side.

2013 · 2 incidents

May 15, 2013 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
RLF Salado Quarries, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee making pallets of stone bent over to pickup stone felt pull in lower back.

2012 · 2 incidents

September 18, 2012 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
RLF Salado Quarries, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employees was making Flagstone has a fracture on finger with a nearby cut will follow up at 3:45PM Sept. 24th 2012.

2002 · 1 incident

March 28, 2002 TX · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech ELECTRICAL
Salado Quarry Inc · Flash burns (electric)

MECHANIC BURNED FACE & HANDS WHILE CHECKING POWER SOURCE IN CONTROL BOX OF SAW.