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: 157 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Hardin Plant has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-04-12.
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.
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: 2022-04-13, 4 years ago
5
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg5
Show the individual readings (5)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2022-04-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
2021-07-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Mechanic
2021-07-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-03-27
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Washer Operator
2019-03-27
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.
Hardin Plant recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2022.
Injury rate, 2022
ⓘ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
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.78 and the all-US-mining average was 2.12 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.25 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
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
11.16
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2023
6
2022
12
2021
14
2020
15
2019
10
2018
6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Hardin Plant sits in Liberty County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 2.0% 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.
Liberty County, Texas · Population 97,993
2.0%
Mining share of county employment
$64,773
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
2023 Q2
832
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
4,678
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
7,751
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
10,032
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
9,185
1
0
108.9
2022 Q1
9,045
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
9,812
2
0
203.8
2021 Q3
9,472
4
0
422.3
Show 12 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2021 Q2
7,195
0
0
0.0
2021 Q1
7,328
1
0
136.5
2020 Q4
8,233
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
8,351
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
10,076
2
0
198.5
2020 Q1
9,168
1
0
109.1
2019 Q3
8,948
2
1
223.5
2019 Q2
8,555
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
4,426
4
0
903.8
2018 Q4
4,677
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
3,533
4
0
1132.2
2018 Q2
5,801
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
3 on file
2020 · 2 incidents
October 6, 2020TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hallett Materials · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Miner was changing a shaft sleeve on a pump at the plant when miner's hand with gloves get stuck in the V-bands and pulley.
May 14, 2020TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Employee was removing a stuck bearing race off of a PTO shaft. Employee cut one side off and it freed the rear end of the shaft - it caught one burr of imperfection on the shaft and while hammering the imperfection off a piece of metal flew off and struck employee in leg.
Employees were removing the dredge pump impeller shell. As they were removing the shell, the shell shifted and struck our employee in the stomach area. The employee experienced bruising in the stomach area. No other injuries.