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Hueni Plant: 1 recorded fatality Metal/Non-Metal

Hallett Materials · Surface
Controlled by Rasmussen Group Inc
Kingwood, Montgomery County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104217

Hueni Plant has $3K 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
2
Years on record
2007–2008
Latest incident
Oct 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
22
citations
3
significant & substantial
$2,600
proposed penalties
$2,600
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Hallett Materials's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
24
inspections on record
304
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: 304 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Hueni Plant has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-07-13.
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.
14.3%
significant & substantial
9.5%
high negligence or reckless
14.3%
reasonably likely or greater
23.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 4.8% none, 19.0% low, 66.7% moderate, 9.5% 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: 2007-07-12, 19 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
3
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2007-07-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2007-07-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.5 2.88 0.17 Washer Operator
2007-07-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dredge/Barge 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.

Hueni Plant recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2009.

Injury rate, 2009
ⓘ 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
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.82 and the all-US-mining average was 3.36 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.58 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
2009 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2008 * 4.72 4.72 4.724
2007 * 4.30 4.30 0.000
2006 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2005 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 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. Hallett Materials 2000 to 2001
  2. Hallett Materials 2001 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2010 11
2009 13
2008 16
2007 15
2006 16
2005 16
2004 20
2003 18
2002 7
2001 3
2000 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Hueni Plant sits in Montgomery County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 3.8% 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.
Montgomery County, Texas · Population 654,722
3.8%
Mining share of county employment
$97,266
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
2010 Q3 6,621 2 0 302.1
2010 Q2 7,491 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 6,939 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 7,562 1 0 132.2
2009 Q3 11,620 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 9,084 3 1 330.3
2009 Q1 8,654 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 10,753 7 2 651.0
Show 32 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q3 10,331 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 10,646 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 10,604 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 10,103 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 11,725 2 0 170.6
2007 Q2 12,013 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 12,628 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 12,495 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 11,938 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 13,926 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 13,050 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 12,766 2 0 156.7
2005 Q3 11,523 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 12,863 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 11,288 1 0 88.6
2004 Q4 12,228 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 14,210 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 14,723 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 14,540 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 11,412 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 12,929 1 0 77.3
2003 Q2 9,328 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 13,623 3 0 220.2
2002 Q4 12,086 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,424 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,872 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,988 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,752 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,578 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,799 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 1,963 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,870 0 0 0.0

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
October 1, 2008 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Hallett Materials · Drowning

Employee was driving along roadway at approx. 5:30 a.m. The vehicle he was driving went through a berm and landed in approx. 45' of water. Employee was found outside the vehicle.

Reportable incidents

1 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2007 · 1 incident

May 25, 2007 TX · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand POWERED HAULAGE
Hallett Materials · Struck by powered moving object

Two mployees had placed a shaft into a workboat for transport. When one moved to side of boat, shaft shifted to side, overturning boat. The EE jumped to the dredge; as he tried to pull himself onto the dredge, the boat struck him in the left pelvic area.