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Banks Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Martin's Central Sand Co., Inc. · Surface

Controlled by Steve Martin

Wichita, Butler County, KS  ·  Active

MSHA Mine ID: 1401726

Banks Quarry has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $302 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities

0

Total incidents

2

Years on record

2020–2023

Latest incident

Nov 2023

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2011

42

citations

7

significant & substantial

$5,751

proposed penalties

$5,449

paid to date

95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $302 gap.

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Inspection activity

MSHA inspections since 2011

37

inspections on record

351

inspection hours

n/a

citations per 100 inspection hours

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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.

Rate withheld: 351 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.

Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Banks Quarry has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $302 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition

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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

$6K

current assessed

$5K

paid to date

$302

outstanding

42 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.

As of the most recent assessment on 2025-05-14.

Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

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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	3,195	0	0	0.0
2025 Q3	2,369	0	0	0.0
2025 Q2	1,816	2	0	1101.3
2025 Q1	2,316	6	0	2590.7
2024 Q4	2,144	0	0	0.0
2024 Q3	2,203	0	0	0.0
2024 Q2	2,353	0	0	0.0
2024 Q1	2,854	1	0	350.4

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Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	S&S	Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4	2,141	0	0	0.0
2023 Q3	2,859	0	0	0.0
2023 Q2	1,919	2	1	1042.2
2023 Q1	3,411	2	0	586.3
2022 Q4	3,186	0	0	0.0
2022 Q3	3,095	0	0	0.0
2022 Q2	2,404	0	0	0.0
2022 Q1	2,315	0	0	0.0
2021 Q4	3,523	3	0	851.5
2021 Q3	1,290	2	1	1550.4
2020 Q4	1,870	0	0	0.0
2020 Q3	2,079	3	2	1443.0
2020 Q2	1,882	0	0	0.0
2020 Q1	1,883	0	0	0.0
2019 Q4	906	0	0	0.0
2019 Q3	1,883	2	1	1062.1
2019 Q2	2,083	0	0	0.0
2019 Q1	1,440	0	0	0.0
2018 Q4	1,152	0	0	0.0
2018 Q3	106	0	0	0.0
2018 Q2	7,093	0	0	0.0
2018 Q1	7,764	0	0	0.0
2017 Q4	7,371	2	0	271.3
2017 Q3	2,620	0	0	0.0
2017 Q2	2,081	2	1	961.1
2017 Q1	1,911	0	0	0.0
2016 Q4	1,918	3	0	1564.1
2016 Q3	1,715	0	0	0.0
2016 Q2	3,022	2	0	661.8
2016 Q1	2,540	1	0	393.7
2015 Q4	2,826	0	0	0.0
2015 Q3	2,625	0	0	0.0
2015 Q2	2,634	1	0	379.7
2015 Q1	2,664	0	0	0.0
2014 Q4	2,442	1	0	409.5
2014 Q3	3,002	0	0	0.0
2014 Q2	2,600	3	0	1153.8
2014 Q1	3,129	0	0	0.0
2013 Q4	1,777	0	0	0.0
2013 Q3	1,206	0	0	0.0
2013 Q2	2,227	0	0	0.0
2013 Q1	2,089	2	0	957.4
2012 Q4	2,330	0	0	0.0
2012 Q3	2,766	0	0	0.0
2012 Q2	2,434	0	0	0.0
2012 Q1	2,450	0	0	0.0
2011 Q4	2,419	2	1	826.8
2011 Q3	3,303	0	0	0.0
2011 Q2	2,761	0	0	0.0

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2023 · 1 incident

November 1, 2023 KS · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec POWERED HAULAGE

Martin's Central Sand Co., Inc. · Struck by flying object

Had a problem with the stacker, went to shut machine down. When running under the belt, the operator lost footing and fell resulting in EE's hard hat to fall off. When EE stood back up to put the hard hat on, a rock came off the belt hitting EE in the head. Went to urgent care, just an open laceration. No stitches required, but did go home for the rest of the day.

2020 · 1 incident

July 23, 2020 KS · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Martin's Central Sand Co., Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The loader operator went to close the door on the loader, and smashed finger. This resulted in cutting the end of middle finger on right hand.

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