Mining Incidents

Audubon Sand Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Jeffrey A Paxton
Suffolk, Suffolk (City) County, VA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4407398

Audubon Sand Pit has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2020
20
citations
4
significant & substantial
$3,317
proposed penalties
$3,317
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
14
inspections on record
225
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: 225 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Audubon Sand Pit has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
20 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-05.
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 2,168 1 1 461.3
2025 Q3 3,246 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,002 1 0 249.9
2025 Q1 3,262 1 0 306.6
2024 Q4 3,995 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,371 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,206 2 0 623.8
2024 Q1 2,636 0 0 0.0
Show 16 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,081 1 0 480.5
2023 Q3 3,408 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,326 2 0 601.3
2023 Q1 2,564 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,731 3 0 1098.5
2022 Q3 4,487 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,790 1 0 558.7
2022 Q1 1,868 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,728 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,934 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,802 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 4,188 4 2 955.1
2020 Q4 3,891 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,846 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,760 4 1 1063.8
2020 Q1 3,564 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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