Mining Incidents

Indian Village Plant: 51 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

MineralTech Gulf Coast Abrasives, LLC · Surface
Kinder, Allen County, LA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1601576

Indian Village Plant has $11K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2018
51
citations
12
significant & substantial
$10,964
proposed penalties
$10,964
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
18
inspections on record
301
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: 301 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Indian Village Plant has $11K 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
51 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-30.
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.
23.5%
significant & substantial
3.9%
high negligence or reckless
23.5%
reasonably likely or greater
45.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 3.9% low, 92.2% moderate, 3.9% 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: 2024-11-13
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
11
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (11)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-11-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2024-01-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-01-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Yard Engine Operator
2022-07-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mechanic
2022-07-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2021-02-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 0.69 0.33 Utility Man
2021-02-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2021-02-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2019-05-16 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 Building Repair/Maint.
2019-05-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2019-05-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.54 0.37 Building Repair/Maint.
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.

Indian Village Plant recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2023.

Injury rate, 2023
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 1.78 and the all-US-mining average was 2.10 cases per 100 workers.
In Louisiana, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.81 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
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
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. MineralTech Gulf Coast Abrasives, LLC 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 4
2025 5
2024 7
2023 13
2022 13
2021 7
2020 8
2019 15
2018 27
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Indian Village Plant sits in Allen Parish, Louisiana, where the Census mining category is 3.2% 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.
Allen Parish, Louisiana · Population 22,552
3.2%
Mining share of county employment
$51,138
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
2026 Q2 1,938 2 0 1032.0
2026 Q1 2,900 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 2,504 3 0 1198.1
2025 Q3 2,448 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,528 1 1 283.4
2025 Q1 2,808 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4,053 1 0 246.7
2024 Q3 3,371 0 0 0.0
Show 26 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 3,652 2 0 547.6
2024 Q1 4,503 6 0 1332.4
2023 Q4 5,249 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 4,644 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 9,787 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 13,713 4 2 291.7
2022 Q4 11,532 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 11,538 1 0 86.7
2022 Q2 5,459 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 4,399 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,801 1 0 357.0
2021 Q3 3,514 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,166 2 2 631.7
2021 Q1 3,357 1 1 297.9
2020 Q4 3,436 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,505 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 4,418 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 5,794 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 5,653 2 0 353.8
2019 Q3 6,629 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 10,580 6 1 567.1
2019 Q1 14,790 5 0 338.1
2018 Q4 10,474 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 13,892 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 16,395 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 11,582 14 5 1208.8

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.