Mining Incidents

Asphalt Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Lowe Bros. LLC · Facility
Controlled by Lorre Lowe; Toby Lowe
Pearl River, St Tammany County, LA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1601542

Asphalt Plant has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
33
citations
12
significant & substantial
$5,224
proposed penalties
$5,073
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $151 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
13
inspections on record
134
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: 134 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Asphalt Plant has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 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
$151
outstanding
33 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-23.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 233 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 172 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 37 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 169 3 2 17751.5
2024 Q4 251 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 270 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 499 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 275 1 1 3636.4
Show 38 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 266 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 260 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 294 4 2 13605.4
2023 Q1 166 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 80 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 128 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 180 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 142 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 101 2 1 19802.0
2021 Q3 84 1 0 11904.8
2021 Q2 131 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 96 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 94 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 116 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 103 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 96 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 84 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 107 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 170 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 199 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 63 1 0 15873.0
2018 Q3 53 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 144 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 115 1 1 8695.7
2017 Q4 151 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 109 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 78 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 174 6 3 34482.8
2016 Q4 226 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 234 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 140 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 120 3 0 25000.0
2015 Q4 156 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 71 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 82 6 1 73170.7
2015 Q1 94 4 1 42553.2
2014 Q4 64 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 40 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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