Mining Incidents

Joe's Sand Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Joe's Sand Pit · Surface
Controlled by Joe Branch
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104281

Joe's Sand Pit has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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
2001
Latest incident
Dec 2001
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
29
citations
11
significant & substantial
$4,721
proposed penalties
$1,440
paid to date
31% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,281 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
10
inspections on record
66
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: 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.

Joe's Sand Pit has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
26 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-12-02.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2004 Q3 0 0 0
2004 Q2 0 0 0
2004 Q1 825 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,586 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,944 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 3,442 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 6,000 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 7,560 0 0 0.0
Show 4 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q2 6,620 5 2 755.3
2002 Q1 6,168 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 4,790 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 6,508 20 9 3073.1
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2001 · 1 incident

December 28, 2001 TX · Metal/Non-Metal truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Joe's Sand Pit · Fall from ladders

EE CLIMBED UP ON FUEL TANK TO FILL WITH FUEL ANDSLIPPED AND HIT HIS BACK OR BUTT ON A ROCK. NO BROKEN BONES JUST BAD BRUISE. THE LADDER WAS BROKEN AND GAVE WAY.

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