Mining Incidents

King Sand & Gravel: 63 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

King Sand & Gravel · Surface
Controlled by Kay King
Navarro, Navarro County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4103193

King Sand & Gravel has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1983
Latest incident
Oct 1983
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
63
citations
22
significant & substantial
$18,801
proposed penalties
$18,451
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $350 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
18
inspections on record
302
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: 302 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

King Sand & Gravel has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$19K
proposed penalties
$18K
current assessed
$18K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
62 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $875 in penalties contested before the Commission, $525 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-05-31.
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.
35.5%
significant & substantial
6.5%
high negligence or reckless
35.5%
reasonably likely or greater
43.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 3.2% low, 90.3% moderate, 6.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 2% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
40%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$875 proposed, $525 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2006-04-20.
Contested penalties
A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
CENT 2006-140M Settlement Barbour 2006 $875 → $525
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2003-10-16, 22 years ago
4
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2003-10-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-10-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2003-10-16 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.32 Dragline Operator
2003-10-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
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.

King Sand & Gravel recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2005.

Injury rate, 2005
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 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.21 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.41 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
2005 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2001 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2000 * 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. King Sand & Gravel 1983 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2006 17
2005 17
2004 16
2003 15
2002 17
2001 16
2000 16
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

King Sand & Gravel sits in Navarro County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.9% 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.
Navarro County, Texas · Population 53,735
0.9%
Mining share of county employment
$59,310
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
2006 Q3 11,054 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 11,294 4 0 354.2
2006 Q1 10,313 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 9,021 7 1 776.0
2005 Q3 8,079 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 10,615 11 0 1036.3
2005 Q1 8,221 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 8,530 0 0 0.0
Show 19 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2004 Q3 10,110 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 10,415 3 2 288.0
2004 Q1 8,572 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 9,986 3 1 300.4
2003 Q3 8,721 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 9,901 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 8,595 2 0 232.7
2002 Q4 9,189 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 10,339 5 3 483.6
2002 Q2 10,229 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 8,663 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 8,450 20 8 2366.9
2001 Q3 10,464 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 10,473 5 5 477.4
2001 Q1 8,329 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 9,330 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 10,094 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 10,767 2 2 185.8
2000 Q1 10,283 1 0 97.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1983 · 1 incident

October 18, 1983 TX · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger MACHINERY
King Sand & Gravel · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE OPERATING DRAGLINE GOT UNBALANCED AND TURNED THE DRAGLINE OVER INTO PIT. HE JUMPED OFF THE DRAGLINE AS IT WAS FALLING AND LANDED 18 FT. DOWN.