Mining Incidents

BONNEY BRIGHT SAND: 77 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Bonney Bright
Virginia Beach, Virginia Beach (City) County, VA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4407037

BONNEY BRIGHT SAND has $11K 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
1
Years on record
2021
Latest incident
Apr 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
77
citations
14
significant & substantial
$10,560
proposed penalties
$10,560
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
63
inspections on record
1,142
inspection hours
6.7
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.
77 citations across 1,142 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

BONNEY BRIGHT SAND has $11K 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
77 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-05.
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.
18.2%
significant & substantial
13.0%
high negligence or reckless
18.2%
reasonably likely or greater
55.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 13.0% low, 74.0% moderate, 13.0% 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: 2026-05-06
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
32
samples
7
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg20
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz7
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz4
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (32)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2026-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2026-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2026-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-12-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2024-12-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2024-12-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.59 0.27 Truck Driver
2024-12-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-03-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2023-03-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-03-16 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 10 0.01 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2023-03-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-03-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.78 0.22 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2021-04-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-04-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2021-04-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2021-04-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-04-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-01-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-01-18 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 Backhoe Operator
2018-01-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-06-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2015-06-02 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.44 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2015-06-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-06-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 0.63 0.19 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-06-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2011-06-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.54 0.24 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-06-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2011-06-23 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-06-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.91 0.16 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-06-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 0.63 0.19 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2008-12-04 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.2 Shovel 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.

BONNEY BRIGHT SAND recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Virginia, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.37 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2025 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 7.94 7.94 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2017 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Bonney Bright Sand Company 2001 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 12
2025 12
2024 12
2023 11
2022 10
2021 11
2020 11
2019 10
2018 13
2017 9
2016 9
2015 8
2014 8
2013 8
2012 9
2011 9
2010 10
2009 9
2008 8
2007 9
2006 8
2005 6
2004 11
2003 3
2002 4
2001 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

BONNEY BRIGHT SAND sits in Virginia Beach city, Virginia, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Virginia Beach city, Virginia · Population 457,066
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$90,685
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
2026 Q2 7,288 2 0 274.4
2026 Q1 6,052 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 6,910 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 7,012 1 0 142.6
2025 Q2 6,325 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 6,003 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 6,236 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 6,365 0 0 0.0
Show 92 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 7,608 1 0 131.4
2024 Q1 7,662 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 6,475 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 6,473 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 6,358 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 6,321 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 6,335 3 1 473.6
2022 Q3 6,755 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 6,700 1 0 149.3
2022 Q1 5,999 1 0 166.7
2021 Q4 6,954 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 6,528 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 6,446 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 5,270 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 4,969 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 5,635 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 5,934 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 5,282 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 4,123 2 1 485.1
2019 Q3 5,350 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 5,177 4 2 772.6
2019 Q1 5,129 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 5,490 3 1 546.4
2018 Q3 6,929 1 0 144.3
2018 Q2 9,010 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 8,594 3 1 349.1
2017 Q4 5,111 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 5,853 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 5,716 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 6,075 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 5,649 3 1 531.1
2016 Q3 5,586 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 5,801 1 0 172.4
2016 Q1 4,226 4 2 946.5
2015 Q4 5,508 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 4,668 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 4,817 1 0 207.6
2015 Q1 4,122 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 5,053 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 4,771 1 0 209.6
2014 Q2 4,998 1 0 200.1
2014 Q1 4,836 1 0 206.8
2013 Q4 4,339 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 4,702 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 5,061 2 0 395.2
2013 Q1 4,514 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 4,278 2 0 467.5
2012 Q3 4,496 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 5,738 1 0 174.3
2012 Q1 5,017 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 4,951 2 1 404.0
2011 Q3 5,125 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 4,669 1 0 214.2
2011 Q1 4,506 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 4,972 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 5,597 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 5,425 3 1 553.0
2010 Q1 4,861 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 5,507 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 4,835 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 5,283 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 4,841 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 4,870 1 0 205.3
2008 Q3 5,447 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 5,125 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 4,388 1 0 227.9
2007 Q4 4,139 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 4,231 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 5,125 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 5,126 5 0 975.4
2006 Q4 4,459 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 5,367 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 4,874 2 0 410.3
2006 Q1 5,265 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 5,028 2 0 397.8
2005 Q3 3,952 2 0 506.1
2005 Q2 4,238 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 2,883 1 0 346.9
2004 Q4 2,757 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,893 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 3,125 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,707 1 0 585.8
2003 Q4 1,580 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 2,162 3 0 1387.6
2003 Q2 2,270 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 2,287 2 2 874.5
2002 Q4 2,659 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 2,009 1 0 497.8
2002 Q2 2,228 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 2,627 3 0 1142.0
2001 Q4 2,255 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,734 4 0 2306.8
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2021 · 1 incident

April 14, 2021 VA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Bonney Bright Sand Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

Gear in Loader fan motor broke