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Billingsly Pit: 24 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Granite Construction Inc
Nesbit, De Soto County, MS  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2200710

Billingsly Pit has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2006–2014
Latest incident
May 2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
24
citations
4
significant & substantial
$2,098
proposed penalties
$1,940
paid to date
92% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $158 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Memphis Stone & Gravel Company's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
20
inspections on record
227
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: 227 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Billingsly Pit has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
24 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $469 in penalties contested before the Commission, $311 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-09-28.
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.
16.7%
significant & substantial
12.5%
high negligence or reckless
20.8%
reasonably likely or greater
62.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.2% low, 83.3% moderate, 12.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
3 citations taken to the federal commission · 13% of citations on record
  • Settled 3 · 100%
50%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
34%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$469 proposed, $311 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2006-01-13.
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
SE 2006-97M Settlement Barbour 2007 $345 → $251
SE 2006-64M Settlement Barbour 2006 $124 → $60
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2014-11-26, 11 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (6)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2014-11-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2014-11-26 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 Backhoe Operator
2014-11-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-11-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-11-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.93 0.16 Supervisor, Co. Official
2002-08-07 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. Memphis Stone & Gravel Company 1999 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2016 7
2015 11
2014 8
2013 6
2012 7
2011 4
2010 3
2009 1
2008 2
2007 2
2006 4
2005 4
2004 5
2003 5
2002 5
2001 5
2000 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Billingsly Pit sits in DeSoto County, Mississippi, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
DeSoto County, Mississippi · Population 188,598
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$82,980
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
2016 Q2 623 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 484 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,118 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,693 2 0 1181.3
2015 Q2 1,075 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,677 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,539 2 0 787.7
2014 Q3 2,024 0 0 0.0
Show 56 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2014 Q2 1,532 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 599 1 1 1669.4
2013 Q4 1,117 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,492 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,249 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 69 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,114 1 1 897.7
2012 Q3 1,581 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 937 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 404 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 535 1 0 1869.2
2011 Q3 246 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 6 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 42 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 21 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 148 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 54 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 19 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 145 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 591 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 318 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 263 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 230 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 581 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 973 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,239 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,801 7 0 3886.7
2006 Q3 3,870 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,288 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,385 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,234 7 2 5672.6
2005 Q3 1,811 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 2,631 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,517 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,685 2 0 1186.9
2004 Q3 2,975 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 3,306 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,974 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,178 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 3,072 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,624 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 533 1 0 1876.2
2002 Q4 442 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,121 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,745 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 397 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 2,137 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,970 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 435 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 344 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 232 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,995 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 2,840 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,342 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2014 · 1 incident

May 14, 2014 MS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee states he was prying on a wear plate that was to be removed from a front end loader bucket. The pry bar broke resulting in it striking him above the lip.

2006 · 1 incident

May 15, 2006 MS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Fall from machine

Employee slipped getting down from a front end loader and his right foot got caught in a step causing him to fall backwards twisting his right leg, knee, and ankle.