Mining Incidents

Montana Rockworks Inc. operator

Controlled by Brad Mercord
MSHA operator ID: 0083324

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
46
Mines on record
5
Years on record
2007–2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
166
citations
43
significant & substantial
$97,044
proposed penalties
$83,392
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2025
1
2023
3
2022
6
2021
4
2020
2
2019
5
2018
4 (1f)
2017
7
2016
3
2015
3
2014
1
2013
2
2011
2
2010
1
2009
1
2007
1

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
October 19, 2018 MT · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Montana Rockworks Inc. · Struck against a moving object

Employee was in an articulating haul truck, was traveling down the haul road at the Quarry. The victim was moving the haul truck down a steep grade, around a turn, when the haul truck traveled through a berm and off a short drop-off. The victim was found hours later by the owner of the company, the victim was not wearing a seat belt.