HUNTER STONE PLANT has $60 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
2001–2005
Latest incident
Aug 2005
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
1
citations
0
significant & substantial
$60
proposed penalties
$60
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 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: 66 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
HUNTER STONE PLANT has $60 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.
$60
proposed penalties
$60
current assessed
$60
paid to date
$0
outstanding
1 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-12-07.
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.
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: 2004-05-26, 22 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz3
Respirable dust, <.1mg3
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (7)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2004-05-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2004-05-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2004-05-26
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.12
10
0.01
Front-end Loader Operator
2004-05-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2002-06-20
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.39
2.38
0.16
Front-end Loader Operator
2002-06-20
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.17
10
0.02
Mechanic
2002-06-20
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.16
10
0.02
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.
HUNTER STONE PLANT recorded 22.53 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2004.
Injury rate, 2004
ⓘ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.
22.53
total case rate
5.63
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.73 and the all-US-mining average was 4.33 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.04 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
2004 *
22.53
5.63
0.000
2003 *
7.08
0.00
0.000
2002 *
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
2005
10
2004
15
2003
11
2002
9
2001
7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
HUNTER STONE PLANT sits in Comal County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 1.0% 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.
Comal County, Texas · Population 174,552
1.0%
Mining share of county employment
$99,015
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
2005 Q3
1,826
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
7,056
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
8,120
0
0
0.0
2004 Q4
8,697
1
0
115.0
2004 Q3
9,242
0
0
0.0
2004 Q2
8,957
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
8,618
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
8,106
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2003 Q3
7,597
0
0
0.0
2003 Q2
7,540
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
4,995
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
5,570
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
5,866
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
7,511
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
5,164
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
4,365
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
5,147
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
3,950
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
7 on file
2005 · 1 incident
August 12, 2005TX · Metal/Non-Metalclerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of salesSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee was roading a Boom lift to another location when he hit a 5" rock in the road. This caused the machine to jump. He was using his left leg to power the machine and when it jumped it caused a hyperextension of his left knee.
March 19, 2004TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Employee was helping change blow bars in the 3 bar secondary crusher. They had removed one bar. They were rolling the rotor to position the second bar in the upright position. Because they could not get the rotor pinned the hold all of the weight the rotor, it rolled back pinning his right foot between the housing and the rotor. This action caused 5 broken bones
February 5, 2004TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
EE WAS USING A CUTTING TORCH TO CUT SOME CHAIN LINKS APART. UNKNOWN TO HIM, THE FITTING ON THE GAS SIDE AT THE VALVE WAS LOOSE AND LEAKING. WHEN HE DEPRESSED THE LEVER FOR THE OXYGEN THE GAS I GNITED FLASH BACK CAUSING HIS RIGHT ARM ABOVE HIS GLOVE TO BE BURNED.
January 22, 2004TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING IMPLEMENTS ON A BOBCAT. WHEN HE PUSHED DOWN ON LOCKING LEVER IT CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN LEVER AND BUCKET FRAME. HE WAS WEARING GLOVES. THE PINCH RESULTED IN A LACERATIO N TO THE FINGER REQUIRING THREE STITCHES.
2003 · 1 incident
July 21, 2003TX · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorPOWERED HAULAGE
EE WAS CRAWLING OVER THE FRAME OF THE PLANT CONVEYOR. WHILE HE WAS CROSSING OVER A ROCK FROM AN OPENING BETWEEN THE CENTER HOPPER AND THE WING WALL FELL HITTING HIM ON THE LEFT HAND. THE ROCK WAS ABOUT 2 1/2"ROUND AND FELL ABOUT 10'. NO REASON WHY THE ROCK FELL. HIS HAND WAS ON THE FRAME WHEN THE ROCK STRUCK HIM. THE DR. PUT A WRAP ON THE WRIST & HAND.
AT FIRST WE THOUGHT IT WAS AN EYE LASH IN HIS EYE. THIS WAS ON TUES. THE 4TH, WORKED WED. AND THUR. THAT NIGHT. HE WENT TO THE E.R. AND THEY SAID HE HAD PINK EYE. THE FOLLOWING FRI. HE MADE AND APPT. WITH HIS DR. HE FOUND METAL IN THE EYETHE ONLY THING THAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED WAS EMPLOYEE HAD SOME METAL SHAVING ON HIS SHIRT AND WHEN HE WIPED BROW IT WENT IN HIS EYE.