Mining Incidents

AUBREY PIT: 23 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Aubrey, Denton County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4103947

AUBREY PIT has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1999
Latest incident
May 1999
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
23
citations
9
significant & substantial
$3,332
proposed penalties
$467
paid to date
14% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,865 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
7
inspections on record
94
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: 94 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

AUBREY PIT has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$467
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
20 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2002-01-16.
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.
42.9%
significant & substantial
14.3%
high negligence or reckless
42.9%
reasonably likely or greater
47.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 85.7% moderate, 14.3% 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: 2002-01-16, 24 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2002-01-16 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.5 10 0.05 Backhoe Operator
2002-01-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
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. Blt Sand & Gravel Inc 1997 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2002 1
2001 6
2000 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

AUBREY PIT sits in Denton County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Denton County, Texas · Population 945,644
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$108,185
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
2002 Q3 0 0 0
2002 Q1 1,233 3 0 2433.1
2001 Q4 1,469 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 4,017 1 0 248.9
2001 Q2 4,776 14 7 2931.3
2001 Q1 3,729 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 3,848 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 3,420 0 0 0.0
Show 2 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2000 Q2 3,436 5 2 1455.2
2000 Q1 3,943 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1999 · 1 incident

May 12, 1999 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Blt Sand & Gravel Inc · Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects

LOADER OPERATOR ATTEMPTED TO CLEAN DIRT FROM TAIL PULLEY OF DRY SCREEN PLANT WHILE PLANT WAS RUNNING. HIS ARM WAS CAUGHT IN PULLEY. HE BROKE HIS ARM AND RECEIVED FRICTION BURNS ON HIS ARM AND CHEST AREA. HE WAS A NEW EE AND HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED BY PLANT FOREMAN AND OTHER OPERATORS NOT TO ATTEMPT ANY REPAIRS BUT REPORT ANY PROBLEMS TO CO-WORKERS.