Branchville Sand Mine has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $568 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2025–2026
Latest incident
Jul 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
31
citations
3
significant & substantial
$4,052
proposed penalties
$3,484
paid to date
86% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $568 gap.
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: 533 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Branchville Sand Mine has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $568 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$568
outstanding
31 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-11-18.
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.
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: 2025-09-08
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
15
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (15)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-09-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2025-09-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Bulldozer Operator
2025-09-08
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.26
Utility Man
2025-09-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2022-04-27
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2022-04-27
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.37
10
0.04
Bulldozer Operator
2022-04-27
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2022-04-27
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2004-12-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
2004-12-08
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.17
Laborer, Bullgang
2004-04-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.24
1.97
0.12
Front-end Loader Operator
2004-04-21
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2004-04-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.14
0.73
0.19
Truck Driver
2001-03-23
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Supervisor, Co. Official
2001-03-23
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.
Branchville Sand Mine recorded 6.05 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.
6.05
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above 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 *
6.05
0.00
0.000
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
15
2025
15
2024
13
2023
10
2022
9
2021
9
2020
8
2019
8
2006
2
2005
5
2004
4
2003
4
2002
5
2001
4
2000
4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Branchville Sand Mine sits in Southampton County, Virginia, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Southampton County, Virginia · Population 17,988
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$68,465
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
On 7/28/26, an employee reported the seat in a haul truck losing air. The employer offered they operate a different piece of equipment, but they did not change equipment. On 7/31/26, the employee notified the employer they were diagnosed with a slipped back disc from the seat not working properly. The cause of the injury is under investigation.
2025 · 2 incidents
August 15, 2025VA · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee had finished washing on a conveyor belt and jumped from the head pulley of the belt to the ground. Employee was unable to walk and sought medical treatment. Employee was placed on restricted work duties and diagnosed with a broken leg.
A customer truck driver stopped their truck at the entrance of the property. They got out of the truck and went to troubleshoot a vibrating noise. Then they were just behind the passenger side front wheel, the truck began to roll backwards. The truck rolled over the driver's foot and came to a stop on top of their foot, breaking a toe.
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