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Powell Pit & Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Beatrice Sand & Gravel · Surface

Controlled by Nebco Inc

Fairbury, Jefferson County, NE · Intermittent

MSHA Mine ID: 2501237

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2014–2018
Latest incident: Nov 2018

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2009

citations

significant & substantial

$6,491

proposed penalties

$6,491

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	Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4	0	0
2025 Q3	0	0
2025 Q1	90	0	0.0
2024 Q4	2,071	0	0.0
2024 Q3	1,932	0	0.0
2024 Q2	2,001	0	0.0
2024 Q1	1,168	0	0.0
2023 Q4	2,015	1	496.3

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

2018 · 1 incident

November 15, 2018 NE · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Beatrice Sand & Gravel · Fall from machine

Employee was attempting to use three points of contact when exiting the loader and missed the hand rail causing them to balance and fell about 5' to the ground injuring right upper thigh. It is believed that they broke their femur bone.

2014 · 1 incident

September 10, 2014 NE · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE

Consolidated Sand & Gravel · Struck against a moving object

Miner (wearing seat belt) was leveling the ground using the cutting edge of the loader bucket, when the bucket penetrated the ground, causing a sudden stop of the machine. The operator then struck his chest on the steering wheel. The machine manufacturer provides lap-type seat belts (no shoulder straps).