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Hardrock 3: 30 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Hardrock Sand & Gravel LLC · Surface
Dodge City, Ford County, KS  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1401788

Hardrock 3 has $9K 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 2018
30
citations
9
significant & substantial
$9,395
proposed penalties
$9,395
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
9
inspections on record
124
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: 124 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Hardrock 3 has $9K 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.
$9K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
27 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-04-09.
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.
30.0%
significant & substantial
46.7%
high negligence or reckless
30.0%
reasonably likely or greater
53.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 53.3% moderate, 46.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2025-04-09
4
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-04-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 Supervisor, Co. Official
2023-01-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-08-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-08-24 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.
Ownership history
  1. Hardrock Sand & Gravel LLC 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2025 0
2024 0
2023 2
2022 2
2021 2
2020 0
2019 0
2018 0
2017 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Hardrock 3 sits in Ford County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Ford County, Kansas · Population 34,133
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$70,495
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
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 960 3 0 3125.0
Show 20 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q4 960 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 680 1 0 1470.6
2022 Q1 320 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 960 3 0 3125.0
2021 Q3 900 5 1 5555.6
2021 Q2 940 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 320 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 520 4 0 7692.3
2017 Q4 1,068 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 480 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,248 0 0 0.0

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.