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Portable Plant CO Metal/Non-Metal

Klotz Sand Company Incorporated · Surface

Controlled by Victor S Klotz; Christie Klotz

Burlington, CO, Sherman County, KS · Intermittent

MSHA Mine ID: 1401338

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2003–2009
Latest incident: Nov 2009

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2002

106

citations

significant & substantial

$46,019

proposed penalties

$38,652

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	2,374	0	0	0.0
2025 Q3	338	3	1	8875.7
2025 Q2	619	0	0	0.0
2020 Q2	160	1	0	6250.0
2020 Q1	140	0	0	0.0
2019 Q4	2,925	0	0	0.0
2019 Q3	3,894	6	4	1540.8
2019 Q2	900	0	0	0.0

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

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2009 · 1 incident

November 23, 2009 KS · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE

Klotz Sand Company Incorporated · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Laborer was starting the wash plant. Conveyor would not turn. He climbed up to conveyor and tried to manually rotate belt. Coat got caught in pully and pulled him into conveyor belt slicing his left arm open. He got out of the conveyor and walked to office. Medical treatment started.

2003 · 1 incident

September 12, 2003 KS · Metal/Non-Metal NO VALUE FOUND

Klotz Sand Company Incorporated · No Value Found

HE WAS REMOVING BOLTS FROM SCREWS THAT HELD THE LOOP OF THE SANDSCREW TO THE SANDSCREW. THE SANDSCREW WAS NOT SECURED BY A CRANE. IT STOOD THERE FOR A WHILE THEN FELL OVER. EMPLOYEE RAN BUT WA S CAUGHT UNDER THE SANDSCREW.