Mining Incidents

Hudson Sand Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Byron, Peach County, GA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0901219

Hudson Sand Mine has $26K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2020–2023
Latest incident
Sep 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
21
citations
7
significant & substantial
$25,866
proposed penalties
$25,866
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
39
inspections on record
498
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: 498 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Hudson Sand Mine has $26K 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.
$26K
proposed penalties
$26K
current assessed
$26K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
20 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-07-17.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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 Q4 3,332 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,856 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,186 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,535 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,126 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,957 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,912 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,132 0 0 0.0
Show 46 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 3,063 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,729 1 0 366.4
2023 Q2 3,108 1 0 321.8
2023 Q1 3,767 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3,372 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,982 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,758 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,640 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,955 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,206 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,992 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 3,523 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,540 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,117 7 5 2245.7
2020 Q2 3,273 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 3,289 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,938 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,300 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 3,540 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 3,353 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 3,119 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,089 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 3,388 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3,361 1 0 297.5
2017 Q4 2,657 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,630 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,666 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,608 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,204 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,337 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,467 1 0 405.4
2016 Q1 2,329 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2,370 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,796 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,400 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 2,334 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,315 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,059 1 0 944.3
2014 Q1 293 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 808 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 334 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 40 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 280 2 0 7142.9
2012 Q4 1,115 2 2 1793.7
2012 Q3 1,338 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,169 5 0 4277.2

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
July 9, 2020 GA · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent Fatality · ELECTRICAL
Atlanta Sand and Supply Co. · Contact with electrical current

Employee was working in a de-energized 4160 volt GFCI controller in an attempt to reverse the polarity of the wires when it somehow became energized.

Reportable incidents

2 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2023 · 2 incidents

September 1, 2023 GA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Atlanta Sand and Supply Co. · Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects

Miner was attempting to tighten the packing on a GIW slurry pump when the Channel lock pliers miner was using came in contact with the rotating shaft causing the Channel lock pliers to snap up and pinching miner's right thumb and ripping/bursting the skin open. Miner received 10 stitches at the emergency room.

July 5, 2023 GA · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Atlanta Sand and Supply Co. · Fall onto or against objects

The miner was starting up the dredge and while doing so was on EE's phone and did not observe that the water nozzle was coming around to the right too far. The water struck the side door of the dredge and the miner knocking EE down and causing EE to strike the side EE's head on the microwave oven. This caused a laceration to EE's scalp of 6 inches.

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The full compliance file on Hudson Sand Mine

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.