Coolidge Sand Plant has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 outstanding across 5 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2021–2025
Latest incident
Jul 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
39
citations
2
significant & substantial
$13,755
proposed penalties
$10,491
paid to date
76% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,264 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: 213 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Coolidge Sand Plant has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 outstanding across 5 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.
$14K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$151
outstanding
38 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
Of $5K in penalties contested before the Commission, $2K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-25.
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.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
10citations taken to the federal commission · 26% of citations on record
Settled
7 · 70%
Stood as issued
1 · 10%
Vacated or withdrawn
1 · 10%
Still open
1 · 10%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘCounts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
61%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$5K proposed, $2K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2026-05-18.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
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: 2024-07-16
50%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
3
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz31 over
Show the individual readings (3)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2024-07-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.19
0.92
1.29
Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-07-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.28
1
0.28
Front-end Loader Operator
2024-07-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
5.08
Laborer, Bullgang
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
3
2025
5
2024
6
2023
4
2022
4
2021
4
2020
4
2005
2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Coolidge Sand Plant sits in Hamilton County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 2.6% 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.
Hamilton County, Kansas · Population 2,485
2.6%
Mining share of county employment
$61,929
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
2,952
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
116
2
0
17241.4
2025 Q4
1,447
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
2,298
6
2
2611.0
2025 Q2
5,065
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
2,846
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
4,056
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
4,266
5
0
1172.1
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
3,615
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
4,279
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
3,930
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
4,422
11
0
2487.6
2023 Q2
3,046
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
2,353
10
0
4249.9
2022 Q4
3,000
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
4,003
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
3,341
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
1,799
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
2,198
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
2,555
5
0
1956.9
2021 Q2
2,338
0
0
0.0
2021 Q1
2,123
0
0
0.0
2020 Q4
722
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
296
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file
2025 · 1 incident
July 9, 2025KS · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
EE was entering operation shack of dredge when a gust of wind blew operator into shack. EE caught self on the door frame with EE's left hand when the door shut pinching the index finger on EE's left hand. After EE's shift, EE went to Prowers Medical Center to get EE's finger cleaned up. The tip to EE's finger was amputated at the time of the incident.