Mining Incidents

Curry Plant 1676: 4 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Arcosa, Inc
Belton, Bell County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4105307

Curry Plant 1676 has $1K 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
1
Years on record
2017
Latest incident
Dec 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2018
4
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,331
proposed penalties
$1,331
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
5
inspections on record
56
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: 56 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Curry Plant 1676 has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
4 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-08-14.
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.
25.0%
significant & substantial
50.0%
high negligence or reckless
25.0%
reasonably likely or greater
25.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 50.0% moderate, 50.0% 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: 2018-05-09, 8 years ago
4
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2018-05-09 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.33 Washer Operator
2018-05-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.57 Truck Driver
2018-05-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2018-05-09 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.

Curry Plant 1676 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2018.

Injury rate, 2018
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
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.95 and the all-US-mining average was 2.33 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.77 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.
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. Arcosa Aggregates, Inc. 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2019 15
2018 17
2017 7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Curry Plant 1676 sits in Bell County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Bell County, Texas · Population 379,811
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$66,051
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
2019 Q3 2,035 1 1 491.4
2019 Q2 2,505 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 11,772 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 11,319 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 10,760 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 10,615 1 0 94.2
2018 Q1 9,613 2 0 208.1
2017 Q4 4,051 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2017 · 1 incident

December 4, 2017 TX · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Arcosa Aggregates, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was attempting to close a door on the water truck. The door would not close. Employee tried using excessive force while attempting to close the door. EE hit elbow on the structure of the truck and twisted left hand in the door handle.