Mining Incidents

Fuchs Sand Metal/Non-Metal

Avon, Bon Homme County, SD  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3901541

Fuchs Sand has $4K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
27
citations
11
significant & substantial
$3,845
proposed penalties
$3,845
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
21
inspections on record
216
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: 216 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Fuchs Sand has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
27 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-11-06.
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
2025 Q1 33 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 59 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 144 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 70 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 49 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 92 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 130 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 94 0 0 0.0
Show 56 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q1 12 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 28 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 128 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 119 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 42 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 41 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 125 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 89 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 68 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 123 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 84 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 22 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 94 1 0 10638.3
2019 Q3 226 2 0 8849.6
2019 Q2 80 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 74 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 142 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 112 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 86 2 0 23255.8
2017 Q3 118 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 112 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 26 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 70 3 0 42857.1
2016 Q3 136 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 76 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 28 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 92 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 110 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 92 5 4 54347.8
2015 Q1 9 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 21 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 37 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 37 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 23 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 33 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 27 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 453 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 55 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 49 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 19 1 0 52631.6
2012 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 58 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 109 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 50 1 1 20000.0
2011 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 52 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 107 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 34 1 0 29411.8
2010 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 54 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 65 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 43 11 6 255814.0

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.

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