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Dry Plant: 118 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Gulf Coast Sand, LLC · Surface
Picayune, Pearl River County, MS  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2200811

Dry Plant has $39K in proposed MSHA penalties and $16K outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2014–2015
Latest incident
Jul 2015
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2013
118
citations
28
significant & substantial
$38,922
proposed penalties
$23,304
paid to date
60% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $15,618 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2013
32
inspections on record
601
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: 601 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Dry Plant has $39K in proposed MSHA penalties and $16K 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.
$39K
proposed penalties
$39K
current assessed
$23K
paid to date
$16K
outstanding
108 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $400 in penalties contested before the Commission, $400 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-30.
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.
23.7%
significant & substantial
10.2%
high negligence or reckless
23.7%
reasonably likely or greater
20.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 11.0% low, 78.8% moderate, 10.2% high, 0.0% reckless.
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.
4 citations taken to the federal commission · 3% of citations on record
  • Settled 4 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$400 proposed, $400 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 2016-03-29.
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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
SE 2016-0157 Settlement Miller 2016 $400 → $400
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2026-07-30
33%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
18
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz31 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg15
Show the individual readings (18)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-09-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.17 1.18 Bagging Operator
2026-07-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bagging Operator
2026-07-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2026-07-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mechanic
2025-09-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.19 0.89 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2020-09-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Screen/Scalper Operator
2020-09-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Screen/Scalper Operator
2017-10-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2017-10-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-10-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Lab Technician
2016-10-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.23 0.61 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2016-10-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2016-10-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Lab Technician
2016-10-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2015-06-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2015-06-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2015-06-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2015-06-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant 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.

Dry Plant recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ 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 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Mississippi, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 0.78 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.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2025 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
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. Shale Support Holdings LLC. 2013 to 2022
  2. Gulf Coast Sand, LLC 2022 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 23
2025 28
2024 22
2023 24
2022 15
2021 11
2020 43
2019 76
2018 67
2017 37
2016 28
2015 34
2014 23
2013 16
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Dry Plant sits in Pearl River County, Mississippi, where the Census mining category is 1.3% 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.
Pearl River County, Mississippi · Population 56,781
1.3%
Mining share of county employment
$56,535
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 13,582 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 13,876 3 2 216.2
2025 Q4 14,358 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 18,339 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 16,333 3 1 183.7
2025 Q1 14,115 7 3 495.9
2024 Q4 10,371 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 10,621 0 0 0.0
Show 45 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 13,404 7 3 522.2
2024 Q1 13,490 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 12,777 9 0 704.4
2023 Q3 16,786 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 17,894 4 1 223.5
2023 Q1 13,982 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 11,027 3 0 272.1
2022 Q3 10,730 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 8,187 2 0 244.3
2022 Q1 7,433 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 134 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,012 1 0 988.1
2021 Q2 7,171 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 13,101 3 0 229.0
2020 Q4 11,026 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 14,312 2 0 139.7
2020 Q2 27,216 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 38,638 1 0 25.9
2019 Q4 30,600 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 34,360 3 0 87.3
2019 Q2 40,791 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 38,930 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 35,287 6 1 170.0
2018 Q3 37,923 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 31,840 2 0 62.8
2018 Q1 27,596 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 23,337 2 0 85.7
2017 Q3 17,821 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 16,716 4 1 239.3
2017 Q1 16,290 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 17,369 4 1 230.3
2016 Q3 17,296 2 0 115.6
2016 Q2 12,408 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 13,415 2 1 149.1
2015 Q4 20,405 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 16,446 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 17,922 4 1 223.2
2015 Q1 17,132 5 2 291.9
2014 Q4 22,104 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 14,564 4 1 274.6
2014 Q2 17,201 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,430 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 6,032 9 3 1492.0
2013 Q2 10,579 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 10,194 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2015 · 1 incident

July 31, 2015 MS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Shale Support Holdings LLC. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The operator was climbing the silo ladder to get a measurement on product level. Once he reached the second ladder platform, he twisted he took a step, twisted his left knee and heard a pop. He said he did not need a doctor, but the following day, he did go to a doctor which diagnosed a broken kneecap.

2014 · 1 incident

July 14, 2014 MS · Metal/Non-Metal steel worker, iron metal worker, iron worker MACHINERY
Shale Support Holdings LLC. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Contractors were installing a belt on a conveyor. While pulling the belt, the cable being used snapped, whipping back, striking the contractor on the left side of the head.