Mining Incidents

LEANDER CUT STONE: 25 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by E G Amundsen
Liberty Hill, Williamson County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4103575

LEANDER CUT STONE has $5K 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
8
Years on record
1990–2003
Latest incident
Apr 2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
25
citations
5
significant & substantial
$4,530
proposed penalties
$4,530
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
13
inspections on record
69
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: 69 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

LEANDER CUT STONE has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
25 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-05-24.
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.
20.0%
significant & substantial
12.0%
high negligence or reckless
20.0%
reasonably likely or greater
28.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.0% low, 84.0% moderate, 12.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

LEANDER CUT STONE recorded 5.84 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2003.

Injury rate, 2003
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.
5.84
total case rate
5.84
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.43 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.88 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
2003 * 5.84 5.84 0.000
2002 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2001 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2000 * 7.14 7.14 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. Leander Cut Stone Company, Inc. 1989 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2004 10
2003 14
2002 13
2001 11
2000 13
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

LEANDER CUT STONE sits in Williamson County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Williamson County, Texas · Population 643,889
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$108,309
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
2004 Q3 4,469 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 6,619 2 1 302.2
2004 Q1 5,613 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 6,967 1 0 143.5
2003 Q3 7,795 1 0 128.3
2003 Q2 10,261 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 9,241 1 0 108.2
2002 Q4 9,531 0 0 0.0
Show 11 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q3 9,573 8 3 835.7
2002 Q2 8,309 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 6,907 10 1 1447.8
2001 Q4 5,923 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 6,993 2 0 286.0
2001 Q2 6,732 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 6,372 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 7,193 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 6,549 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 7,200 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 7,065 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

8 on file

2003 · 1 incident

April 1, 2003 TX · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Leander Cut Stone Company, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS REMOVING STONE FROM THE JOINT SAW TABLE WITH THE MOVING BAR WHEN THE STONE SLIPPED PINNING THE FINGERS ON HIS RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE BAR & CONCRETE FLOOR. THE TIPS OF HIS INDEX, MIDDLE & RING FINGERS WERE SEVERED AT THAT TIME.

2000 · 1 incident

September 18, 2000 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Leander Cut Stone Company, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WORKER WAS PULLING OUT SAW CART WHEN THE RATCHET SLIPPED CAUSING A SHIFT IN WEIGHT IN AN AWKWARD STANCE RESULTING IN A MUSCLE STRAIN.

1999 · 1 incident

May 4, 1999 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Leander Cut Stone Company, Inc. · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

2 EE'S WERE LIFTING STONE SLABS. 2 SLABS BROKE WHILE THE EE'S WERE LIFTING THEM: THE SLABS FELLSMASHING EE RIGHT HAND. THE 3RD & 4TH FINGERS WERE CUT & 3RD FINGER REQUIRED STITCHES

1996 · 1 incident

September 7, 1996 TX · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec MACHINERY
Leander Cut Stone Company, Inc. · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

THE EE WAS PUSHING A BLOCK WITH THE OVERHEAD CRANE AND HURT HIS BACK.

1995 · 1 incident

June 22, 1995 TX · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Leander Cut Stone Company, Inc. · Struck by falling object

STONE SLAB WAS ON SLINGS WHEN STONE BROKE & FELL ON EMPLOYEES LEFT FOOT

1994 · 1 incident

December 19, 1994 TX · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec MACHINERY
Leander Cut Stone Company, Inc. · Struck by flying object

EE WAS CLEANING BEHIND QUARRY SAW, WHEN ROCK CAME FLYING OUT & HIT HIM ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HEAD,TO THE LEFT OF THE LEFT EYE.

1993 · 1 incident

September 27, 1993 TX · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec MACHINERY
Leander Cut Stone Company, Inc. · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE HAD NOT RAISED 4INCH STOVE SLAB HIGH ENOUGHT TO GET OVER THE TOP OF EXISTING SLABS ALREADY STANDING IN PLANT AREA. HE THEN BUMPED THE EXISTING SLABS IN PLAN AND THEN TO CORRECT THE MOVEMENT OF THE SLABS HE HAD ONT HE CRANE HE GRABBED THESLABS AND GOT HIS FINGER IN BETWEEN TWO OF THEN AND THEY BROKE LEAVING HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND SMASHED.

1990 · 1 incident

July 23, 1990 TX · Metal/Non-Metal groundman, yardman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Leander Cut Stone Company, Inc. · Struck against stationary object

HE WAS UNLOADING BY HAND A BROKEN PIECE OF STONE WHICH HAD FALLEN FROM HIS SAW CART TO THE FLOOR. AS HE PICKED IT UP AND TURNED TO WALK WITH IT, HE BUMPED HIS HEAD ON THE LOWER PULLEY GUARD.