Mining Incidents

JENKINS PIT: 91 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Maxwell L Johnson III
Denham Springs, St Helena County, LA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1601318

JENKINS PIT has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $418 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2023–2025
Latest incident
Aug 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
91
citations
30
significant & substantial
$17,404
proposed penalties
$16,986
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $418 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
40
inspections on record
524
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: 524 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

JENKINS PIT has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $418 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.
$17K
proposed penalties
$17K
current assessed
$17K
paid to date
$418
outstanding
89 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-15.
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.
33.0%
significant & substantial
2.2%
high negligence or reckless
33.0%
reasonably likely or greater
28.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 6.6% low, 91.2% moderate, 2.2% 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: 2025-04-23
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
12
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (12)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-04-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2025-04-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-05-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.65 2 0.33 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-05-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mechanic
2024-05-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.91 0.18 Truck Driver
2022-10-20 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.47 10 0.05 Dredge/Barge Operator
2022-10-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 Dredge/Barge Operator
2019-10-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2019-10-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-09-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2013-09-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 0.43 0.28 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-09-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. 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.

JENKINS PIT recorded 6.66 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
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.
6.66
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Louisiana, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.98 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
2025 * 6.66 0.00 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 5.00 5.00 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
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. Industrial Companies Inc 1997 to 1997
  2. Trinity Materials Inc 1997 to 2012
  3. AGGREGATE INDUSTRIES 2012 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 13
2025 14
2024 18
2023 20
2022 18
2021 25
2020 19
2019 19
2018 17
2017 20
2016 19
2015 21
2014 19
2013 14
2012 9
2001 1
2000 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

JENKINS PIT sits in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, where the Census mining category is 2.1% 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.
St. Helena Parish, Louisiana · Population 10,849
2.1%
Mining share of county employment
$50,193
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 7,459 2 0 268.1
2026 Q1 6,131 1 0 163.1
2025 Q4 7,497 4 2 533.5
2025 Q3 6,983 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 7,525 1 0 132.9
2025 Q1 8,028 4 1 498.3
2024 Q4 8,215 2 0 243.5
2024 Q3 7,869 0 0 0.0
Show 53 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 8,645 4 3 462.7
2024 Q1 9,039 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 9,458 3 0 317.2
2023 Q3 9,734 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 10,161 3 2 295.2
2023 Q1 10,643 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 7,279 6 2 824.3
2022 Q3 7,671 5 3 651.8
2022 Q2 9,225 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 13,400 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 12,665 2 0 157.9
2021 Q3 13,900 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 12,983 1 1 77.0
2021 Q1 10,616 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 11,407 3 2 263.0
2020 Q3 10,950 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 11,016 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 10,390 1 0 96.2
2019 Q4 10,601 3 0 283.0
2019 Q3 10,124 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 9,659 2 0 207.1
2019 Q1 8,455 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 8,102 2 0 246.9
2018 Q3 8,811 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 8,902 4 1 449.3
2018 Q1 8,884 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 8,692 6 0 690.3
2017 Q3 9,344 5 2 535.1
2017 Q2 9,248 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 10,227 1 0 97.8
2016 Q4 9,332 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 11,010 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 12,892 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 12,219 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 10,627 13 4 1223.3
2015 Q1 9,154 2 1 218.5
2014 Q4 11,830 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 8,332 2 2 240.0
2014 Q2 7,221 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 6,597 1 1 151.6
2013 Q4 6,883 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 7,037 2 1 284.2
2013 Q2 5,533 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 6,085 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 5,188 1 1 192.8
2012 Q3 2,608 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 0 0 0
2001 Q3 0 0 0
2001 Q2 0 0 0
2001 Q1 1,394 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 4,306 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 4,222 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 3,407 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2025 · 1 incident

August 8, 2025 LA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
AGGREGATE INDUSTRIES · Struck by flying object

Employee was working on air grease gun and line blew hitting them in the eye.

2023 · 1 incident

July 21, 2023 LA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
AGGREGATE INDUSTRIES · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was standing on a trailer that they were helping to unload a part off of the trailer. When they finished unloading, they squatted down to get off the trailer. The distance from the ground to the trailer is 3ft. Once employee hopped off the trailer, they landed standing up. They went to take a step forward and fell over.