Gray County Crusher has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2000
Latest incident
Aug 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
28
citations
21
significant & substantial
$10,772
proposed penalties
$6,650
paid to date
62% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,122 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: 185 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Gray County Crusher has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
28 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $9K in penalties contested before the Commission, $5K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2001-02-13.
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.
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.
Gray County Crusher recorded 10.63 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2000.
Injury rate, 2000
ⓘ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.
10.63
total case rate
3.54
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.77 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.42 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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2002
3
2001
4
2000
23
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Gray County Crusher sits in Gray County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 7.0% 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.
Gray County, Texas · Population 21,131
7.0%
Mining share of county employment
$56,082
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
EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING IN REPLACING BELTS ON A CRUSHER. MECHANIC INSTRUCTED WORKERS TO PULL HANDS BACK BEFORE ROLLING BELTS ON. EMPLOYEE KEPT HIS HAND NEAR THE BELT, AND IT WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE BELT AND PULLEY. THUMB WAS CRUSHED AND APPRROX 1/4 INCH HAD TO AMPUTATED.
July 2, 2000TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanMACHINERY
EE WAS WORKING ON THE GROUND RIGHT BESIDE JAW CRUSHER WHEN A ROCK GOING INTO THE CRUSHER BOUNCED OFF AND LANDED ON EE'S BACK. RESULTED IN A BRUISED AND SORE SHOULDER. EE WAS CHECKED BY A DOCTO R BUT MISSED NO WORK.
EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A ROCK FROM A TAIL PULLEY. RATHER THAN WAIT FOR THE PROPER TOOLS TO REMOVE THE ROCK HE ATTEMPTED TO REMOVE THE ROCK WITH A HAMMER. WHEN THE ROCK DISLODGED, THE PULL EY TURNED, CATCHING THE EE'S ARM IN IT AND BREAKING IT.