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Cave City Metal/Non-Metal

Summit Sand & Aggregates LLC · Surface

Controlled by Jim Otteman

Cave City, Independence County, AR · Intermittent

MSHA Mine ID: 0302057

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2021
Latest incident: Jan 2021

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2017

citations

significant & substantial

$16,635

proposed penalties

$15,880

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	1,591	1	0	628.5
2025 Q3	5,925	4	0	675.1
2025 Q2	3,351	0	0	0.0
2024 Q2	1,298	0	0	0.0
2024 Q1	6,213	0	0	0.0
2023 Q4	7,692	7	2	910.0
2023 Q3	6,095	0	0	0.0
2023 Q2	7,836	2	1	255.2

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2021 · 1 incident

January 6, 2021 AR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE

American Select Corp · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Miner, plant operator, was attempting to free VSI crusher of debris from the grizzly. EE did not follow shut down procedure to perform said action; left conveyors running, which resulted in EE's jacket becoming entangled in head wheel shaft of the conveyor, causing EE to fall, resulting in a broken arm, which required surgery.