Mining Incidents

BUFFALO DOCK Metal/Non-Metal

CSI Sands NE Ltd · Facility
Controlled by 1442246 AB Ltd
Buffalo, Erie County, NY  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3003261

BUFFALO DOCK has $1.0M in proposed MSHA penalties and $421K outstanding across 26 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
1999–2021
Latest incident
Nov 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
392
citations
175
significant & substantial
$1,043,920
proposed penalties
$336,154
paid to date
32% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $707,766 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
132
inspections on record
2,191
inspection hours
17.9
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.
392 citations across 2,191 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

BUFFALO DOCK has $1.0M in proposed MSHA penalties and $421K outstanding across 26 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.
$1.0M
proposed penalties
$757K
current assessed
$336K
paid to date
$421K
outstanding
318 assessments are final orders; 26 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-24.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 12,860 13 6 1010.9
2025 Q3 13,725 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 12,428 31 13 2494.4
2025 Q1 13,043 17 9 1303.4
2024 Q4 19,880 10 5 503.0
2024 Q3 18,211 18 7 988.4
2024 Q2 15,755 14 5 888.6
2024 Q1 18,179 8 4 440.1
Show 96 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 20,629 48 24 2326.8
2023 Q3 19,779 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 19,280 29 16 1504.1
2023 Q1 9,974 27 19 2707.0
2022 Q4 13,398 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 10,530 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 11,889 13 3 1093.4
2022 Q1 11,790 1 0 84.8
2021 Q4 9,880 32 9 3238.9
2021 Q3 5,280 1 0 189.4
2021 Q2 6,931 10 2 1442.8
2021 Q1 3,724 14 7 3759.4
2020 Q4 6,792 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 6,476 7 4 1080.9
2020 Q2 4,300 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 6,000 1 1 166.7
2019 Q4 8,880 4 3 450.5
2019 Q3 10,165 4 2 393.5
2019 Q2 8,413 1 0 118.9
2019 Q1 8,761 1 0 114.1
2018 Q4 7,017 5 1 712.6
2018 Q3 10,213 7 3 685.4
2018 Q2 11,268 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 4,740 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,852 1 0 540.0
2017 Q3 2,322 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,294 1 0 435.9
2017 Q1 2,259 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,328 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,322 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,294 2 1 871.8
2016 Q1 2,232 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2,453 4 2 1630.7
2015 Q3 2,498 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,583 3 1 1161.4
2015 Q1 2,569 1 0 389.3
2014 Q4 2,604 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,518 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2,416 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 2,577 3 1 1164.1
2013 Q4 2,500 1 0 400.0
2013 Q3 2,698 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 2,781 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 2,841 5 2 1759.9
2012 Q4 2,901 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,699 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,947 2 2 678.7
2012 Q1 2,567 3 0 1168.7
2011 Q4 2,540 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 2,484 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,978 3 2 1516.7
2011 Q1 1,395 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,498 3 1 2002.7
2010 Q3 1,645 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,384 2 1 1445.1
2010 Q1 1,165 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,230 3 1 2439.0
2009 Q3 1,110 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,064 7 4 6578.9
2009 Q1 1,071 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,104 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,110 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,091 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,054 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,091 1 0 916.6
2007 Q3 1,062 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,076 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,187 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,216 1 0 822.4
2006 Q3 1,253 2 1 1596.2
2006 Q2 1,193 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,118 1 0 894.5
2005 Q4 1,094 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,103 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,146 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,079 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,118 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,216 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,086 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,038 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,197 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,091 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,113 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,114 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,116 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,120 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,098 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,074 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,098 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,330 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,221 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 1,044 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,072 5 2 4664.2
2000 Q3 1,137 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,098 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,071 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2021 · 2 incidents

November 3, 2021 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
CSI Sands NE Ltd · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Plant is under construction to upgrade. While putting new belt on bucket elevator, employee assisted mill wright on pulling belt and got finger tips caught in the head pulley. This resulted in EE losing the tips of 2 fingers.

June 3, 2021 NY · Metal/Non-Metal FIRE
CSI Sands NE Ltd · Accident type, without injuries

Fire started on wall next to dryer area and continues into storage area

2020 · 1 incident

2019 · 1 incident

May 17, 2019 NY · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver MACHINERY
CSI Sands NE Ltd · Fall onto or against objects

Truck driver was exiting truck in parking lot. Steps fell off truck. driver fell onto steps receiving minor scrapes and bruising. was released from hospital with no injuries. went back to see dr on 5/22 and it was determined they had cracked ribs.

1999 · 1 incident

February 11, 1999 NY · Metal/Non-Metal IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST
CSI Sands NE Ltd · Accident type, without injuries

SUSPECTED SECURITY GAS SHUT OFF VALVE LEAKED NATURAL GAS INTO FAN AND DUCT WORK RESULTING IN IGNITION, WITH NO FIRE OUTSIDE THE DRYING SYSTEM.

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The full compliance file on BUFFALO DOCK

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.