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Emme Sand & Gravel: 35 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Emme Sand & Gravel · Surface
Controlled by Tony R Emme
O'Neill, Holt County, NE  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2501083

Emme Sand & Gravel has had no fatalities among 2 reportable incidents since 2004. MSHA has proposed $5K in penalties since 2003.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2004–2025
Latest incident
Mar 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
35
citations
10
significant & substantial
$4,685
proposed penalties
$4,685
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date. The remaining $0 was reduced, settled, contested or is still owed.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Emme Sand & Gravel's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
37
inspections on record
367
inspection hours
n/a
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: 367 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Emme Sand & Gravel has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
35 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-11.
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.
28.6%
significant & substantial
20.0%
high negligence or reckless
28.6%
reasonably likely or greater
40.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 8.6% low, 71.4% moderate, 20.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2025-04-01
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-04-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-11-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dredge/Barge Operator
2009-11-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 1.49 0.12 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-06-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 1.98 0.10 Dredge/Barge Operator

Area samples (mill and shop air)

Last sampled: 2014-07-08, 12 years ago
1
samples
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Area sampled
2014-07-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 SF ORE TRANSFER
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.
Ownership history
  1. Larry'S Sand & Gravel 1987 to 1996
  2. Emme Sand & Gravel 1997 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 5
2025 5
2024 5
2023 4
2022 5
2021 5
2020 5
2019 4
2018 3
2017 4
2016 3
2015 3
2014 3
2013 2
2012 3
2011 2
2010 3
2009 3
2008 2
2007 2
2006 2
2005 3
2004 3
2003 3
2002 2
2001 2
2000 2
1999 2
1998 2
1997 2
1996 1
1995 2
1994 1
1993 2
1992 2
1991 1
1990 1
1989 0
1988 2
1987 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Emme Sand & Gravel sits in Holt County, Nebraska, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Holt County, Nebraska · Population 10,093
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$67,225
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 2,355 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 288 5 1 17361.1
2025 Q4 1,680 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,592 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,375 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 45 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,530 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,880 0 0 0.0
Show 97 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 2,175 3 0 1379.3
2024 Q1 388 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,710 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,640 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,016 1 0 331.6
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 2,252 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,960 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,520 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 344 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,310 2 0 865.8
2021 Q3 2,940 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,880 1 0 347.2
2021 Q1 680 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,368 1 0 731.0
2020 Q3 2,820 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,150 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,008 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,760 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,040 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,728 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 221 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,107 2 0 1806.7
2018 Q3 1,606 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,112 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 1,554 2 1 1287.0
2017 Q3 2,075 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,888 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 105 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 633 1 1 1579.8
2016 Q3 1,512 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,540 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 567 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 930 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,656 1 0 603.9
2015 Q2 1,728 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 273 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 952 3 0 3151.3
2014 Q2 1,404 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 33 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 672 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,584 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,116 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 585 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,246 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 378 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 216 2 2 9259.3
2011 Q4 735 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,296 2 1 1543.2
2011 Q2 1,675 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 798 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,584 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,584 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 192 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 792 4 3 5050.5
2009 Q3 1,332 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 2,016 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 288 1 0 3472.2
2008 Q4 455 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,468 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,872 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 624 1 0 1602.6
2007 Q3 1,332 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,152 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 363 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 252 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 297 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 235 1 1 4255.3
2005 Q3 936 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 432 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 153 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,240 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,332 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 342 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 220 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,140 2 0 1754.4
2003 Q3 1,460 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,440 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 240 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 640 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 720 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 240 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 560 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 320 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 60 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 620 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 360 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 160 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2025 · 1 incident

March 28, 2025 NE · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Emme Sand & Gravel · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was descending the steps of the loader and slipped and landed wrong twisting their right knee. Possible ACL or MCL damage.

Show 1 earlier incidents

2004 · 1 incident

June 7, 2004 NE · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Emme Sand & Gravel · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was standing on the bank lifting out equipment from old dredge using a chain. At the time of the injury there was not any equipment hooked on the chain, Ed gave the chain a pull to get more slack and the chain came unhooked from itself and struck him in the forehead.