Texas-Lehigh Cement Plant & Quarry — Accidents
Total: 182 accidents | Fatalities: 1
| Date | Classification | Injury | Days Lost | Narrative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/04/2026 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was reinstalling the bonnet on the 307-A motor. During this process EE felt a strain in the lower left side of EE's back. EE reported it to EE's supervisor and continued working until 10:30 p... |
| 11/03/2025 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | None | Employee was climbing the ladder to the 901 Dust Collector, at the top, hand grip slipped causing the employee to fall forward causing a laceration to arm pit on the metal latch for the safety chain.... |
| 10/09/2025 | POWERED HAULAGE | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 1d restricted | Employee was cleaning near the Pan Conveyor at 731-B East side. While removing material from the walkway, the employee slipped on uneven ground, and the left hand contacted the moving conveyor, which... |
| 10/09/2025 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 1d restricted | Contractor employee was cleaning the east walkway of the 731-B conveyor. While EE was moving material EE slipped on the uneven material EE was cleaning up. As EE fell EE reached out with EE's left han... |
| 08/14/2025 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | A Production employee was carrying a ladder across level ground when they stumbled and fell. They dropped the ladder and put their hands out to try and catch themselves. The impact with the ground cau... |
| 07/24/2025 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee reached in to grab a porta power that they saw starting to slip. They put their hands in the line of fire and when the shoring spun it impacted their right thumb. Employee was taken to the lo... |
| 05/17/2025 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was working in the preheater tower; EE was wearing a face shield and safety glasses. When EE lifted up the face shield the dust that accumulated on the rim of the shield fell into EE's face g... |
| 08/06/2024 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was trying to reinstall a inspection port on a air slide, some cement flushed, and some sprayed up and impacted EE's face. EE rinsed EE's eyes out to flush any foreign material. After EE's sh... |
| 07/29/2024 | MACHINERY | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 29d restricted | An employee was going to retrieve the manufacturer part number off the blower pulley sheave. After looking at the sheave, EE decided to remove the bolt that was holding the sheave. EE grabbed the bolt... |
| 08/02/2023 | MACHINERY | PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY | None | Employee reached down to adjust a pallet on the palletizer without deenergizing the system. Once the employee moved the pallet a few inches the sensor started the conveyor because it thought there was... |
| 05/17/2023 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee looked up and dust from the rim of EE's face shield fell into EE's left eye. EE was wearing safety glasses under the face shield. flushed eye and finished shift. Went to doctor next morning a... |
| 01/07/2023 | DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS) | OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 | None | While working on the tower in a hot suit, the employee's arms and legs started to cramp: And employee became dehydrated. |
| 10/27/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 31d lost | EE was having trouble with coal shaker hoist cables making limit switches. EE attempted to manipulate cables to contact switches. EE had hold of a cable to guide it and told EE on ground to jog hoist.... |
| 10/02/2022 | MACHINERY | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 10d restricted | Employee was cutting bolts to separate flanges / boom sections on material reclaimer in order to remove sprocket/shaft assembly. Although boom was supported when cutting last bolt, boom section shifte... |
| 08/25/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 61d restricted | Shipping employee placed hands in harm's way while closing silo elevator doors. Employee attempted to use nylon strap which was broken and too short to pull doors together. In the process, employee's... |
| 08/03/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 12d restricted | Employee working with another to remove large guard from head of elevator to replace chain. In process, employee's hand (finger) got caught between edge of guard and elevator housing causing middle fi... |
| 07/27/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Clinker dust fell from overhead pipe while employee was working to connect and run air hose along pipe. |
| 12/20/2021 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 7d restricted | Employee was removing hydraulic fitting under pressure. Hydraulic fluid under pressure struck employee in right side of head causing laceration approx. 4"" long requiring emergency room treatment. |
| 11/04/2021 | ENTRAPMENT | ACCIDENT ONLY | None | Man traveling in service elevator to top of ""old silos"" became trapped when elevator stopped between levels NOTE: was originally reported to Safety 11/4 and relayed incorrectly to MSHA One Call occu... |
| 10/19/2021 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 63d restricted | Employee part of maintenance crew removing analyzer probe housing from back of kiln. While working to guide probe and rigging around obstacles, rigging slipped causing weight to shift and end of probe... |
| 08/19/2021 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 6d restricted | Pump running hot and cavitating. Employee and Supervisor working to correct operational condition. |
| 07/02/2021 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 24d restricted | The employee's right thumb was smashed between a pallet and the trailer deck that the employee was offloading. |
| 06/02/2021 | MACHINERY | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 8d restricted | Using jackhammer to chip concrete on several occasions over past 2 weeks. Fill buckets with concrete and carry to debris chute to dump. Strain/sprain to right wrist causing pain, numbness, and decre... |
| 06/01/2021 | MACHINERY | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 8d restricted | Air lance broke through the packed material, the air lance lunged downward further, and the employee's left pinky finger was pinched between the lance and the hopper wall. |
| 05/11/2021 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 13d restricted | On 5/11/21, the employee wasn't sure what EE had done. After a 12 hour shift, EE's right knee began to hurt. EE didn't think much about it until 5/18/21 when EE's knee was still hurting, and EE wanted... |
| 02/10/2021 | MACHINERY | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 19d restricted | While air lancing the valve and coupling of an air lance impacted the employee's left hand and wrist. |
| 12/18/2020 | OTHER | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 76d restricted | Employee knelt down and felt a pop in left knee. |
| 10/08/2020 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 113d restricted | Employee was moving filing cabinet and other miscellaneous items and felt a pull in right shoulder. |
| 08/24/2020 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | A piece of metal broke off a bull pin (Metal striking tool) and embedded in employees left bicep. (1/4"" x 1/4"") |
| 06/18/2020 | POWERED HAULAGE | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 5d restricted | Employees left index finger came into contact with an a/c fan blade. |
| 03/04/2020 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 9d lost, 206d restricted | Employee stepped backward, tripped on the angle iron frame of the kiln cooling fan base. While the employee was falling, they extended right arm trying to brace the fall. The employee landed on the co... |
| 12/26/2019 | POWERED HAULAGE | PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY | 11d lost | Employee's right index, middle and ring finger were caught in a rotary feeder. |
| 08/14/2019 | DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS) | OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 | 5d lost | Rigger was tasked with assisting in stowing the jib on a crane. While walking the hoist line, EE felt EE's muscles cramp. EE told EE's operator about the cramps, and EE's operator told EE to go sit in... |
| 07/03/2019 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 6d restricted | As employee was climbing down a ladder, EE missed the last step and sprained right ankle. |
| 06/04/2019 | POWERED HAULAGE | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 30d restricted | Employee was working in close proximity to a moving forklift, and forklift bumped into employee's right ankle. |
| 03/25/2019 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Rolled fingers into shive |
| 02/21/2019 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 21d restricted | Employee was using a five-foot long pry bar on a support tab to help move the finish mill feed chute. The chute was wedged between two 6 inch I-beams. While applying pressure on the bar the chute shif... |
| 02/08/2019 | MACHINERY | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 7d restricted | While air lancing a plugged material chute, material blew back towards employee and went up under EE's safety glasses and material got into both eyes. |
| 12/27/2018 | POWERED HAULAGE | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 10d restricted | Loader impacted the man lift in the rear tire and body shroud. The impact caused the boom and basket to swing violently creating an impact between employee and the hand rail of the basket. |
| 02/08/2018 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 15d restricted | Repetitive motion while using a material handling vibrator, walking up and down stairs, to get to silo that employee was working on |
| 01/10/2018 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 7d restricted | While placing liners in the finish mill, mill liner fell from mill and struck employee |
| 07/20/2017 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Hot material fell onto jacket, then material fell down on top of employees right hand. (Submitting now, due to information obtained on 3/12/2018) |
| 07/18/2017 | EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was hit in the nose by a hydraulic ram hose (Being submitted now, due to information obtained on 3/12/2018) |
| 02/13/2017 | MACHINERY | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 14d restricted | Employee was pushing on the cables of a hoist, the left ring finger and pinky finger were pulled into the pulley of the hoist. |
| 01/21/2017 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was using an air lance to clear a plugged hopper, hot material flushed out and hit employee in the chest, material then traveled upward going under face shield and safety glasses landing on e... |
| 01/18/2017 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | On 1/18/2017 employee was walking and slipped in the mud and jarred shoulder after couple of weeks of shoulder not getting any better. An MRI was performed, results were given on 2/24/2017 and diagnos... |
| 10/13/2016 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee suffered a non-occupational, non-reportable stroke. EE was taken to the hospital for treatment where EE received stitches for a slight wound sustained when EE collapsed from the stroke. The... |
| 09/08/2016 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 16d lost, 155d restricted | Employee was rolling a steel plate on a steel rolling machine when EE's left hand was pinned in between the plate and top roll of the machine. |
| 04/30/2016 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee #1 was inside the lab rest room, reaching to pull the door open to exit with left hand, with right hand ee tossed a paper towel in the trashcan. Employee #2 was on the outside and pushed the... |
| 03/01/2016 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | While removing calibration weight from a weigh feeder belt, the calibration weight fell, striking employee on the right hand, causing a small fracture to the tip of the right index finger. |