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Landsdown: 130 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Landsdown Corporation · Surface
Controlled by Vince Labarbera
Lowndesboro, Lowndes County, AL  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0103331

Landsdown has $61K in proposed MSHA penalties and $45K outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2008
Latest incident
Jun 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
130
citations
32
significant & substantial
$60,723
proposed penalties
$15,713
paid to date
26% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $45,010 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
50
inspections on record
602
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: 602 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘ A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2012-03-13.
On record since 2012.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Landsdown has $61K in proposed MSHA penalties and $45K outstanding across 3 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.
$61K
proposed penalties
$61K
current assessed
$16K
paid to date
$45K
outstanding
123 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $21K in penalties contested before the Commission, $21K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-19.
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.
25.4%
significant & substantial
13.5%
high negligence or reckless
25.4%
reasonably likely or greater
54.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.8% low, 81.7% moderate, 13.5% 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.
14 citations taken to the federal commission · 11% of citations on record
  • Settled 4 · 29%
  • Stood as issued 10 · 71%
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 4 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$21K proposed, $21K 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 2010-02-17.
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
SE 2010-443M Default Lesnick 2011 $11K → $11K
SE 2009-994M Prevail Melick 2011 $10K → $10K
SE 2008-905M Settlement Paez 2010 $100 → $100
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: 2025-02-06
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
10
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (10)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-02-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2025-02-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 0.91 0.29 Utility Man
2025-02-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-01-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2021-01-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 Utility Man
2021-01-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2021-01-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-07-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2009-07-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mechanic
2009-07-29 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.

Landsdown 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 Alabama, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.27 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 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2008 * 9.75 9.75 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. JohnCo Materials Inc 2005 to 2019
  2. Landsdown Corporation 2019 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2025 14
2024 12
2023 14
2022 12
2021 14
2020 11
2019 3
2013 0
2012 5
2011 8
2010 6
2009 7
2008 12
2007 4
2006 11
2005 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Landsdown sits in Lowndes County, Alabama, where the Census mining category is 1.0% 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.
Lowndes County, Alabama · Population 10,008
1.0%
Mining share of county employment
$35,160
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
2025 Q3 8,730 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 9,288 5 0 538.3
2025 Q1 9,288 9 3 969.0
2024 Q4 5,853 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 8,748 2 0 228.6
2024 Q2 7,817 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 9,239 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 8,990 0 0 0.0
Show 48 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 8,667 6 1 692.3
2023 Q2 9,173 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 8,543 3 2 351.2
2022 Q4 8,347 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 8,138 1 1 122.9
2022 Q2 7,950 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 6,579 5 0 760.0
2021 Q4 4,891 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 6,352 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 6,017 6 2 997.2
2021 Q1 5,775 4 0 692.6
2020 Q4 4,752 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,403 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,148 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,613 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,107 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,070 1 0 934.6
2019 Q2 471 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 0 1 0
2012 Q3 2,880 8 0 2777.8
2012 Q2 2,880 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 2,880 9 2 3125.0
2011 Q4 3,360 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 4,239 2 0 471.8
2011 Q2 2,880 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 3,360 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 3,360 3 0 892.9
2010 Q3 3,120 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 3,120 3 3 961.5
2010 Q1 3,120 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 2,400 10 2 4166.7
2009 Q3 2,040 7 3 3431.4
2009 Q2 2,240 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,188 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 7,280 4 1 549.5
2008 Q3 9,520 2 1 210.1
2008 Q2 1,040 2 1 1923.1
2008 Q1 2,665 18 2 6754.2
2007 Q4 2,274 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,971 1 0 507.4
2007 Q2 1,239 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 823 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 4,458 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 4,516 8 4 1771.5
2006 Q1 3,436 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 2,222 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,099 1 1 476.4
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2008 · 1 incident

June 21, 2008 AL · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
JohnCo Materials Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was driving the Polaris from the office to the mine site when he took a turn too fast. The vehicle started to tip over so he put his left foot out to try to stop it from tipping over. When he did that the vehicle tipped and pinned his left foot underneath until it came to a stop.