Mining Incidents

Branham Sand & Gravel Pit: 28 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

BURNCO TEXAS LLC · Surface
Controlled by Burnco Rock Products Ltd
Glen Rose, Somervell County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4105127

Branham Sand & Gravel Pit has $5K 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
2
Years on record
2016–2018
Latest incident
Feb 2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
28
citations
11
significant & substantial
$4,803
proposed penalties
$4,803
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
15
inspections on record
192
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: 192 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Branham Sand & Gravel Pit has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
28 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-03-15.
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.
39.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
39.3%
reasonably likely or greater
46.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 14.3% low, 85.7% moderate, 0.0% 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: 2016-04-06, 10 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2016-04-06 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.

Branham Sand & Gravel Pit recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2019.

Injury rate, 2019
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 1.94 and the all-US-mining average was 2.32 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.84 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
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 8.00 8.00 0.000
2017 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2016 * 9.34 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. BURNCO TEXAS LLC 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2021 0
2020 6
2019 11
2018 10
2017 10
2016 9
2015 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Branham Sand & Gravel Pit sits in Somervell County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 2.8% 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.
Somervell County, Texas · Population 9,510
2.8%
Mining share of county employment
$83,382
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
2021 Q1 0 1 0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 2,524 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,627 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 7,270 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 7,377 7 5 948.9
2019 Q3 7,122 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 6,579 4 2 608.0
Show 16 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2019 Q1 4,991 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 6,329 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 5,741 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 6,907 2 1 289.6
2018 Q1 6,020 5 1 830.6
2017 Q4 11,618 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 7,687 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 6,011 2 0 332.7
2017 Q1 7,024 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 4,875 1 0 205.1
2016 Q3 5,707 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 3,709 3 2 808.8
2016 Q1 7,120 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 5,824 3 0 515.1
2015 Q3 4,597 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,658 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2018 · 1 incident

February 26, 2018 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
BURNCO TEXAS LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Two workers were moving pit pumps. The flange's on the poly pipe had to be removed. The fourth bolt would not come off, and the pipe was being held up by a chain that was attached to the excavator. EE used a torch to remove the bolt. When it came off, the poly pipe struck EE in the forehead.

2016 · 1 incident

May 6, 2016 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
BURNCO TEXAS LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

While removing electrical motor from conveyor employee twisted back causing severe pain, Fredrick Mills #52723 ,stacking conveyor C432