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Hensley Pit: 74 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Sand Mill Inc · Surface
O'DONNELL, Borden County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4103918

Hensley Pit has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $6K outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2004
Latest incident
Sep 2004
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
74
citations
18
significant & substantial
$13,307
proposed penalties
$6,872
paid to date
52% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $6,435 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Sand Mill Inc's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
38
inspections on record
403
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: 403 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Hensley Pit has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $6K outstanding across 3 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.
$13K
proposed penalties
$13K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$6K
outstanding
74 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $651 in penalties contested before the Commission, $411 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-03-19.
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.
24.3%
significant & substantial
24.3%
high negligence or reckless
24.3%
reasonably likely or greater
33.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 6.8% low, 68.9% moderate, 24.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
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.
2 citations taken to the federal commission · 3% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 50%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 50%
50%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$120 proposed, $60 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 2003-12-10.
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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
CENT 2004-19-M Settlement Melick 2004 $471 → $351
CENT 2004-66-M Settlement Hodgdon 2004 $120 → $60
CENT 2004-103-M Dismissal Lesnick 2004 $60 → $0
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2000-10-12, 25 years ago
3
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2000-10-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2000-10-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2000-10-12 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 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.

Hensley Pit 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.
Ownership history
  1. Sand Mill Inc 1996 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2024 0
2023 0
2022 5
2021 11
2020 9
2019 12
2018 19
2017 6
2016 5
2012 2
2011 3
2010 3
2009 2
2008 3
2007 0
2006 2
2005 5
2004 6
2003 6
2002 7
2001 5
2000 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Hensley Pit sits in Borden County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 2.2% 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.
Borden County, Texas · Population 723
2.2%
Mining share of county employment
$64,250
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
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 0 5 0
2023 Q4 429 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 0 0 0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
Show 72 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q4 800 9 2 11250.0
2022 Q3 1,147 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,108 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,712 4 0 1474.9
2021 Q4 3,686 5 1 1356.5
2021 Q3 3,861 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,858 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,668 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,790 3 1 791.6
2020 Q3 3,548 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,868 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 4,208 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 4,722 2 1 423.5
2019 Q3 4,534 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 6,907 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 6,233 6 1 962.6
2018 Q4 10,375 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 13,184 9 3 682.6
2018 Q2 6,690 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3,365 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 3,008 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 4,636 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,124 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,930 6 2 2047.8
2016 Q4 2,423 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,629 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,174 6 2 2759.9
2012 Q1 64 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 161 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 20 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 36 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 87 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 170 1 0 5882.4
2010 Q3 229 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 196 1 0 5102.0
2010 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 26 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 2 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 69 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 173 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 76 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 196 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 0 0 0
2007 Q2 0 0 0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 0 0 0
2006 Q2 2,350 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,315 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 2,129 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,881 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 2,283 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 2,377 4 1 1682.8
2004 Q4 2,843 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 2,961 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 2,510 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 2,930 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,501 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 2,585 5 0 1934.2
2003 Q2 2,073 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 2,130 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,809 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 3,373 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 2,419 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 2,061 1 1 485.2
2001 Q4 1,669 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,824 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,819 5 2 2748.8
2001 Q1 1,711 1 0 584.5
2000 Q2 1,654 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,209 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2004 · 1 incident

September 13, 2004 TX · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Sand Mill Inc · Fall from machine

Employee, a driver for Ingram Ready Mix, a customer of the mine, while waiting to be loaded, "blacked out" and fell two to four feet from the step of his truck cab to a stockpile of wet sand. His shoulder was dislocated by the landing. Prognosis is for a two week recovery.