Mining Incidents

Allied Custom Gypsum: 49 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Harrison Gypsum, LLC · Facility
Controlled by H I G Capital LLC
Bessie, Washita County, OK  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3401348

Allied Custom Gypsum has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
1988–2004
Latest incident
Jun 2004
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
49
citations
16
significant & substantial
$6,383
proposed penalties
$911
paid to date
14% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $5,472 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
13
inspections on record
112
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: 112 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Allied Custom Gypsum has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$911
current assessed
$911
paid to date
$0
outstanding
48 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
Of $6K in penalties contested before the Commission, $165 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-12-29.
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.
32.7%
significant & substantial
2.0%
high negligence or reckless
32.7%
reasonably likely or greater
79.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.1% low, 93.9% moderate, 2.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Contested penalties
A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
CENT20030165M Dismissal Feldman 2004 $3K → $0
CENT20030166M Dismissal Feldman 2004 $1K → $0
CENT20030193M Dismissal Feldman 2004 $686 → $0
CENT20010264M Settlement Zielinski 2001 $634 → $110
CENT20020226M Default Barbour 2002 $55 → $55
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

Allied Custom Gypsum recorded 5.35 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2004.

Injury rate, 2004
This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
5.35
total case rate
5.35
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.73 and the all-US-mining average was 4.33 cases per 100 workers.
In Oklahoma, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.29 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2004 * 5.35 5.35 0.000
2003 * 6.24 6.24 0.000
2002 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2001 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2000 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. A W Arnold & Associates Inc 1981 to 1987
  2. Harrison Gypsum, LLC 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2005 15
2004 18
2003 13
2002 13
2001 12
2000 16
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Allied Custom Gypsum sits in Washita County, Oklahoma, where the Census mining category is 6.7% 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.
Washita County, Oklahoma · Population 10,857
6.7%
Mining share of county employment
$61,980
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, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. 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
2005 Q1 7,747 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 9,368 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 8,897 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 10,431 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 8,712 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 8,868 1 0 112.8
2003 Q3 7,385 1 0 135.4
2003 Q2 8,340 0 0 0.0
Show 13 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2003 Q1 7,442 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 8,386 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 7,735 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 8,643 34 13 3933.8
2002 Q1 6,815 4 0 586.9
2001 Q4 8,405 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 7,487 1 0 133.6
2001 Q2 7,612 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 6,568 3 2 456.8
2000 Q4 9,705 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 9,163 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 8,338 5 1 599.7
2000 Q1 7,778 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

10 on file

2004 · 1 incident

June 16, 2004 OK · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Harrison Gypsum, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was assisting with restaking some bags that fell of a pallet during the night, onto a new pallet. He was not using proper body alignment and twisted his upper body causing him to pull his lower back muscle.

2003 · 1 incident

August 18, 2003 OK · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Harrison Gypsum, LLC · Struck by falling object

EE WAS STRAIGHTENING BAGS ON PALLET, WHEN HE WAS HIT ON THE ANKLE WITH THE STRIPPER BAR. FELLOW EE PRESSED WRONG BOTTOM.

1994 · 1 incident

July 18, 1994 OK · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Harrison Gypsum, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE CLIMBING IN FRONT END LOADER TWISTED BACK EMPLOYEE REPORTED INJURY 07-21-94 EMPLOYEE RETURN TO WORK LIGHT DUTY 07-25-94

1991 · 5 incidents

December 9, 1991 OK · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Harrison Gypsum, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WORKING WITH HAMMER HEAD CAME LOOSE FROM HANDLE HIT HAT BOUNCED TO HIS SHOULDER

September 20, 1991 OK · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Harrison Gypsum, LLC · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS FINISHING A WELD AND REMOVING WELDING HOOD. AS THE WELD COOLED, SLAG POPPED AND WENT OVER THE TOP OF SAFETY GLASSES IMBEDING IN THE LEFT EYE.

July 26, 1991 OK · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor MACHINERY
Harrison Gypsum, LLC · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING 3 SPOUT BAGGER AND GOT HAND CAUGHT IN BAGGER BLADES.

July 19, 1991 OK · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Harrison Gypsum, LLC · Struck by falling object

EMPL WAS LIFITING PALLET OVER HEAD PALLET WENT ON OVERHEAD & HIT HIM IN BACK.

February 27, 1991 OK · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Harrison Gypsum, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS OPERATING BAGGER AND RIGHT HAND GOT CAUGHT AND MASHED.

1989 · 1 incident

May 26, 1989 OK · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Harrison Gypsum, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE CRAWLED UNDER THE DRYER ON HIS BACK TO CHANGE BEARINGS IN THE DRYER AND HURT HIS BACK.

1988 · 1 incident

August 22, 1988 OK · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Harrison Gypsum, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

THORAXES SPRAIN/STRAIN INJURY LIFTING 50 LB. BAG.