Mining Incidents

Dartmouth Sand LLC Metal/Non-Metal

Dartmouth Sand LLC · Surface
Controlled by Kirk R Deines
Ellinwood, Barton County, KS  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1401696

Dartmouth Sand LLC has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $255 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2011
Latest incident
Jan 2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
17
citations
9
significant & substantial
$2,312
proposed penalties
$2,057
paid to date
89% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $255 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
12
inspections on record
74
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: 74 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Dartmouth Sand LLC has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $255 outstanding across 1 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$255
outstanding
17 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-02-15.
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
2011 Q1 6 4 3 666666.7
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 0 0 0
2010 Q2 108 8 4 74074.1
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 0 1 0
2009 Q2 280 4 2 14285.7
Show 2 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2009 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 380 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2011 · 1 incident

January 21, 2011 KS · Metal/Non-Metal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST
Dartmouth Sand LLC · Contact with hot objects or substances

Pumped fuel out of fuel tank when tank was empty, it fill with fumes, last thing I remember I turned the pump off.

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