Mining Incidents

Convent Pit: 39 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

South Louisiana Fill Materials, LLC · Surface
Convent, St James County, LA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1601347

Convent Pit has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $120 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
39
citations
13
significant & substantial
$7,537
proposed penalties
$7,417
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $120 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
53
inspections on record
379
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: 379 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Convent Pit has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $120 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$120
outstanding
37 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-16.
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.
35.1%
significant & substantial
18.9%
high negligence or reckless
35.1%
reasonably likely or greater
48.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 13.5% low, 67.6% moderate, 18.9% 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: 2025-09-24
3
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-09-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-11-07 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-11-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Scale Man
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.
Ownership history
  1. Fill Materials Inc 1999 to 2006
  2. Fill Materials LLC 2007 to 2020
  3. South Louisiana Fill Materials, LLC 2020 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 3
2024 2
2023 3
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 3
2018 2
2017 3
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 2
2012 2
2011 2
2010 1
2009 2
2008 1
2007 1
2006 1
2005 1
2004 1
2003 4
2002 1
2001 1
2000 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Convent Pit sits in St. James Parish, Louisiana, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
St. James Parish, Louisiana · Population 19,797
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$64,536
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 1,358 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,160 1 0 862.1
2025 Q4 240 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,410 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,534 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 340 2 0 5882.4
2024 Q4 613 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 484 0 0 0.0
Show 88 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 140 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 80 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 440 1 0 2272.7
2023 Q3 976 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 395 1 0 2531.6
2023 Q1 60 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 100 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 180 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 370 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 240 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 736 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 170 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 240 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 490 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,000 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 125 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 0 1 0
2019 Q1 1,570 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 646 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 650 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 619 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 389 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 36 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 350 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,316 1 1 759.9
2017 Q1 935 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 50 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 807 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 688 2 1 2907.0
2016 Q1 721 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 755 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 710 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 696 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 671 1 0 1490.3
2014 Q4 862 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 889 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 888 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 939 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 833 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 710 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 680 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 590 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 354 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 573 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 695 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 620 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 28 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 40 3 0 75000.0
2009 Q4 935 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,007 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,044 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 30 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 152 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 270 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 60 1 0 16666.7
2007 Q4 40 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 25 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 23 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 330 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 25 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 24 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 25 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 25 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 390 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 455 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 574 1 0 1742.2
2004 Q4 524 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 454 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 469 1 0 2132.2
2004 Q1 415 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,235 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 416 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 495 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 537 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 521 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 494 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 577 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 444 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 389 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 505 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 482 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 528 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 429 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 163 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 398 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 369 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.