Mining Incidents

Cayuga Sand Metal/Non-Metal

Cayuga Sand LLC · Surface
Cayuga, Anderson County, TX  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4105442

Cayuga Sand has $18K 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
2020–2021
Latest incident
May 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2020
31
citations
9
significant & substantial
$17,914
proposed penalties
$17,914
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
16
inspections on record
262
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: 262 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Cayuga Sand has $18K 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.
$18K
proposed penalties
$18K
current assessed
$18K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
31 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-28.
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 4,395 3 1 682.6
2025 Q3 5,394 9 0 1668.5
2025 Q2 5,868 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 4,162 1 0 240.3
2024 Q4 3,106 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 355 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 60 3 0 50000.0
2024 Q1 2,589 0 0 0.0
Show 19 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 4,408 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 4,874 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 10,045 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 8,670 2 0 230.7
2022 Q4 6,201 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 5,488 1 1 182.2
2022 Q2 6,828 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 5,519 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 4,196 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 4,707 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 7,020 4 2 569.8
2021 Q1 7,111 5 3 703.1
2020 Q4 5,359 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,312 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 7,417 1 1 134.8
2020 Q1 7,073 2 1 282.8
2019 Q4 2,943 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,862 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 3,230 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2021 · 1 incident

May 23, 2021 TX · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Cayuga Sand LLC · Fall from machine

At 5:32 pm the employee who was injured was closing the hatches on a pneumatic frac sand truck when the Truck driver drove off before the employee was off of the truck. Employee was wearing proper safety equipment. MSHA was notified.

2020 · 1 incident

December 14, 2020 TX · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Cayuga Sand LLC · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Employee was reaching into a tail end roller of a conveyor with a shovel and then the employee's right arm got caught in roller.

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