Mining Incidents

KEMP PLANT Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by R Lance West
Watson, Livingston County, LA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1601569

KEMP PLANT has $3K 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 2017
23
citations
1
significant & substantial
$2,711
proposed penalties
$2,711
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
20
inspections on record
255
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: 255 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

KEMP PLANT has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-28.
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
2025 Q4 1,742 2 0 1148.1
2025 Q3 1,865 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,818 1 0 550.1
2025 Q1 1,957 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,188 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,575 2 0 776.7
2024 Q2 1,890 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,853 1 0 539.7
Show 27 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,768 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,871 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,741 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,938 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,645 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,267 2 0 882.2
2022 Q2 2,313 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,740 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,820 2 0 1098.9
2021 Q3 1,790 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,826 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,738 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,759 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,766 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,300 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,270 1 0 787.4
2019 Q4 1,154 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,146 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,091 2 0 1833.2
2019 Q1 650 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 810 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,471 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,541 3 0 1180.6
2018 Q1 2,250 1 0 444.4
2017 Q4 1,762 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,191 4 0 3358.5
2017 Q2 844 0 0 0.0

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.

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