citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘThis rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 203 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Sdac Oz has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
ⓘDifferences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
24 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-08-13.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘShares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘA sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘMany samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2026-09-25
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg6
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (7)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2026-09-25
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
0.91
0.16
Front-end Loader Operator
2026-09-25
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Bulldozer Operator
2026-09-25
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Washer Operator
2023-08-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Bulldozer Operator
2023-08-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2023-08-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2023-08-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
2
2025
2
2024
2
2023
3
2022
6
2021
5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.
Sdac Oz sits in Montgomery County, Alabama, where the Census mining category is 0.0% of county employment.
Local economic context
ⓘCounty figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Montgomery County, Alabama · Population 227,197
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$58,153
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘCitations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2026 Q2
602
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
631
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
565
2
1
3539.8
2025 Q3
435
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
240
2
0
8333.3
2025 Q1
366
1
0
2732.2
2024 Q4
205
0
0
0.0
2024 Q2
605
2
0
3305.8
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1
651
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
677
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
677
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
678
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
779
1
0
1283.7
2022 Q4
1,435
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
1,362
1
0
734.2
2022 Q2
1,156
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
1,252
1
0
798.7
2021 Q4
2,074
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
2,240
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
3,417
2
0
585.3
2021 Q1
1,152
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file
2024 · 1 incident
June 7, 2024AL · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanPOWERED HAULAGE