Hempstead Plant has $475 in proposed MSHA penalties and $121 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2017
Latest incident
Feb 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
4
citations
0
significant & substantial
$475
proposed penalties
$354
paid to date
75% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $121 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: 92 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Hempstead Plant has $475 in proposed MSHA penalties and $121 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.
$475
proposed penalties
$475
current assessed
$354
paid to date
$121
outstanding
4 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $118 in penalties contested before the Commission, $118 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-08-29.
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.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
1citations taken to the federal commission · 25% of citations on record
Stood as issued
1 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$118 proposed, $118 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2018-10-25.
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.
Hempstead Plant recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2019.
Injury rate, 2019
ⓘ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
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.94 and the all-US-mining average was 2.32 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.84 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
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018 *
0.00
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
2019
8
2018
8
2017
4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Hempstead Plant sits in Waller County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 1.6% 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.
Waller County, Texas · Population 59,455
1.6%
Mining share of county employment
$76,135
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
2019 Q4
3,598
0
0
0.0
2019 Q3
4,868
1
0
205.4
2019 Q2
5,741
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
6,047
0
0
0.0
2018 Q4
6,563
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
7,325
2
0
273.0
2018 Q2
4,497
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
4,637
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2017 Q4
2,459
1
0
406.7
2017 Q3
1,814
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
2,944
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
3,073
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2017 · 1 incident
February 24, 2017TX · Metal/Non-Metalbarge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck handOTHER
Unknown operator · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Employee was on the dredge coming back into the wheel house from checking the bilge pumps. When employee went to raise the seat arm with right hand on the arm and left hand on the door jam. The wind blew the door shut on employee's left hand.
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