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JARCO SANDS LLC: 56 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

JARCO SANDS LLC · Facility
Controlled by J & S Materials
San Antonio, Bexar County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4105361

JARCO SANDS LLC has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $487 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2023
Latest incident
Sep 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2018
56
citations
19
significant & substantial
$11,759
proposed penalties
$11,272
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $487 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
32
inspections on record
343
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: 343 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

JARCO SANDS LLC has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $487 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.
$12K
proposed penalties
$12K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$487
outstanding
50 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-11.
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.
34.5%
significant & substantial
9.1%
high negligence or reckless
34.5%
reasonably likely or greater
40.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 9.1% low, 81.8% moderate, 9.1% 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: 2023-03-28, 3 years ago
17%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
9
samples
6
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz61 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (9)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2023-01-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.42 0.56 2.54 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-03-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-01-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.38 0.47 0.81 Cleanup Man
2023-01-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.36 0.42 0.86 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2023-01-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.63 0.69 0.91 Truck Loader
2019-08-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 0.53 0.47 Cleanup Man
2019-08-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 0.56 0.55 Truck Loader
2019-08-05 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2019-08-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 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.

JARCO SANDS LLC recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2024.

Injury rate, 2024
ⓘ 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 1.77 and the all-US-mining average was 2.08 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.49 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
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 2.53 2.53 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 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. J W Sands LLC 2018 to 2025
  2. JARCO SANDS LLC 2025 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 4
2025 24
2024 33
2023 29
2022 25
2021 16
2020 15
2019 21
2018 15
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

JARCO SANDS LLC sits in Bexar County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.6% 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.
Bexar County, Texas · Population 2,037,344
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$70,571
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 3,916 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,904 4 1 2100.8
2025 Q1 15,902 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 16,709 2 0 119.7
2024 Q3 24,401 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 25,572 3 0 117.3
2024 Q1 25,301 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 23,807 5 0 210.0
Show 22 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 21,101 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 14,867 2 2 134.5
2023 Q1 19,255 12 5 623.2
2022 Q4 15,263 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 16,635 3 2 180.3
2022 Q2 14,280 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 13,138 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 13,684 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 9,003 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 10,361 5 3 482.6
2021 Q1 10,209 3 0 293.9
2020 Q4 5,430 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,449 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 9,186 2 1 217.7
2020 Q1 16,643 3 1 180.3
2019 Q4 13,315 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 14,238 2 2 140.5
2019 Q2 14,564 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 15,343 4 0 260.7
2018 Q4 11,465 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 6,402 2 1 312.4
2018 Q2 3,740 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2023 · 1 incident

September 27, 2023 TX · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
J W Sands LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE was changing out exhaust fan and replacing V-Belts on same. Left middle finger got caught between a belt and the pulley resulting in crush injury. X-ray revealed a fracture of the left middle finger.