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: 49 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
HBME-Jones Mill has $165 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.
$165
proposed penalties
$165
current assessed
$165
paid to date
$0
outstanding
3 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $55 in penalties contested before the Commission, $0 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2001-04-18.
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.
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: 2001-04-19, 25 years ago
25%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz41 over
Show the individual readings (4)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2001-04-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.55
0.42
1.31
Crusher Oper/Worker
2001-04-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.12
0.2
0.60
Truck Driver
2001-04-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.22
0.39
0.56
Truck Driver
2001-04-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.12
0.36
0.33
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.
HBME-Jones Mill recorded 13.96 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2002.
Injury rate, 2002
ⓘ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.
13.96
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.17 and the all-US-mining average was 5.05 cases per 100 workers.
In Arkansas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.04 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
2002 *
13.96
0.00
0.000
2001 *
9.20
4.60
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
2003
6
2002
13
2001
12
2000
9
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
HBME-Jones Mill sits in Hot Spring County, Arkansas, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Hot Spring County, Arkansas · Population 33,142
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$52,644
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
EE WAS DRIVING A 60 TON HAUL TRUCK, LOADED. HE WAS REPOSITIONING TRACK TO DUMP LOAD OF STONE ON A PILE WHEN THE TRUCK ROLLED OVER ONTO THE LEFT SIDE. HE CLAIMED NO INJURIES AT THE TIME OF INCI DENT AND DECLINED ANY MEDICAL TREATMENT. REPORTED INJURY LATE - ON 6/20/03.
October 24, 2002AR · Metal/Non-Metalbackhoe operator, trackhoe operator, crane operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE WAS REPAIRING A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT USING GUN CUTTER. A WHILE LATER HE FELT TINGLING IN HIS RIGHT LITTLE FINGER, NOTICING SOME SWELLING & REDNESS. WASHED HIS HANDS & LATER HAD A RED STREAK G OING UP WRIST & TOP OF HAND. HE APPARENTLY HAD A SMALL SCRATCH THAT THE CHEMICAL SEEPED INTO.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN PROCESS OF CLIMBING DOWN FROM SCREEN WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING/ BALANCE CAUSING HIM TO FALL 16' TO THE GROUND.
June 18, 2001AR · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
WHILE STANDING ON A LADDER APPRX. 6FT. UP, HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CUT 4TH SIDE OF A BOX ON A SHUTE. WHILE MAKING 4TH CUT, THE BOX BROKE LOOSE BEFORE BEING COMPLETELY CUT IT THEN CAME BACK AND KI CKED THE LADDER OUT FROM UNDER HIM CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE GROUND AND LANDING ON HIS LEFT SIDE (WRIST & ARM) A LARGE KNOT APPEARED ON ARM .