Granbury Mine — Accidents

Total: 28 accidents | Fatalities: 1

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
12/23/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY None Employee was discarding sand samples into a 5 gallon bucket for disposal back into a sand pile. The employee was in the process of throwing the discarded sand back into the trash pile when they felt a...
02/25/2025 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 17d lost On 2/25/25, Vista employee was cleaning material buildup under conveyor with a dingo. The employee caught EE's right hand between the handle of the dingo and the conveyor resulting in lacerations. The...
09/26/2023 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was assisting with a conveyor belt repair. Employees attached belt clamp to the belt and attached a rope on one end and other end attached to a SkyTrak forklift. Employees began to pull belt...
09/02/2023 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON INJURIES INVOLVNG NONEMPLOYEES None This Incident occurred with a customer. The injured person was not a Vista Minerals employee. A truck driver for Blackhawk Trucking jumped down off of the trailer approximately 5-6 feet after untangli...
03/20/2023 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Vista employee notified Josey's Contractors v-belts were burning off of exhaust fan, later was shut down. Vista called Josey's to replace v-belts. After LOTO, while twisting and turning the belt into...
12/10/2018 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 79d restricted Miner was reviewing prints for a bucket elevator and stepped backwards off of a raised foundation. While attempting to break the fall, EE's wrist was dislocated. Miner was taken to an urgent care faci...
10/08/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 9d restricted Employee was removing a spray bar with right hand and it slipped and struck the left hand causing a laceration.
08/08/2018 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Company EE was loaded with product at the mine. EE attempted to close trailer tarp via cab control. Cab control did not work, EE exited cab to use trailer mounted tarp control when the swing arm broke...
07/16/2018 FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 2d restricted EE was cleaning at the Primary when a rock came out the diester, fell and struck EE on the hard hat. EE was transported to medical and placed on restricted duty as a precaution.
06/21/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 1d lost, 47d restricted EE was washing material under C9 tail pulley with 1 1/4"" water hose. The nozzle connected to the hose disconnected. EE felt pain in Rt shoulder. EE was transported to ER. In the waiting room, the EE...
01/03/2018 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 7d lost, 14d restricted EE was clearing a chute in the 40/70 tunnel and as EE struck the chute the bar EE was using bounced back and struck nose. EE was taken to medical and prescription for pain meds was issued.
06/06/2017 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 1d restricted The employee stepped out of the Skid steer ee was being trained on to use the bathroom. EE stepped on a slick surface and hit hard hat on the bucket of the skid steer. EE had a contusion on the back o...
01/31/2017 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 13d lost EE was operating a 745C truck,& was swerving for an 1/8 of a mile. As ee approached the top of the pit ramp, ee was seen by the oncoming operator to be slumped over in truck. As ee coasted down the ra...
03/18/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 257d lost While removing a screen deck from top deck of a Rotex the employee's right shoulder popped.
02/26/2016 FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS FATALITY Fatal An All-Terrain Forklift was unloading a trailer of poly pipe. While the All-Terrain Forklift was traversing away from the trailer, a single piece of pipe fell on the driver's side of the truck.
09/10/2015 OTHER DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 124d restricted The wet plant operator was changing screens on the screen deck, he had finished and was laying on his back moving back and forth to get out of the screen deck and tweeked his back.
06/10/2015 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Injury occurred while installing new shaker motor. Motor was rigged to a Skytrak that was equipped with special rigging arm. All workers noticed beforehand that Skytrak would start to shake due to ang...
03/16/2015 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted Wet Plant operator was using a pipe wrench to tighten the take up on BF1 at primary plant. While applying pressure the wrench slipped off and hit his middle finger against the frame of the conveyor. H...
08/04/2014 OTHER INJURIES DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES None The night maintenance person was walking to the NEW wet plant. One of our plant operators watched him fall, he ran over to him and then radioed that he had passed out. After asking him what happened h...
05/29/2013 DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 7d lost, 7d restricted Worker started complaining of left arm numbness. He followed a manager up to the main office where his condition worsened to nausea, sweating, more numbness, so he was taken to the nearest hospital.
04/23/2013 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 12d lost One of the Quality Control personnel while walking back into the Quality Control office tripped and fell on his right knee. I took him to the doctor and he was x-rayed. He was told to follow up with...
03/23/2013 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None I called MSHA as soon as I found out there was a fire that lasted for more than 30 min. MSHA did send a rep out to survey the incident. I just found out that I had to report this on a 7000-1.
03/02/2013 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 118d lost I did not know that this was not filed until I checked on it 5/30/13. The miner was driving a haul truck over a rut causing the seat to raise up and the force caused the nut holding the seat belt in...
09/11/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 50d lost The driver was getting into his water truck to and said he felt something pop in his stomach. He then walked over to a manager who was watching him and said that something popped in his stomach and th...
08/31/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 10d lost The miner was shoveling sand since early morning and was working to clean up sand near a walkway and hurt his lower back.
04/22/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 145d lost Employee was walking to fill up a fuel tank and twisted his knee.
02/07/2009 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost The plant was off for maintenance. Employee was greasing a bearing on the BCV155 conveyor head pulley. The plant operator turned on the plant, the start up alarm sounded. Employee did not lock out...
06/03/2008 POWERED HAULAGE DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 1d lost, 5d restricted The haul truck operator either fell asleep or was not paying attention and drove over the 3 foot safety berm and landed on the next level of the pit. The truck landed on the front left side of the ha...