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LGEX-Perm-Akron: 140 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

L.G. EVERIST, INC. · Surface
Controlled by L G Everist Inc
Akron, Plymouth County, IA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1300691

LGEX-Perm-Akron has $26K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1 outstanding across 18 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1989–2019
Latest incident
Feb 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
140
citations
28
significant & substantial
$26,233
proposed penalties
$25,199
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,034 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See L.G. EVERIST, INC.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
60
inspections on record
877
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: 877 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

LGEX-Perm-Akron has $26K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1 outstanding across 18 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.
$26K
proposed penalties
$25K
current assessed
$25K
paid to date
$1
outstanding
139 assessments are final orders; 18 contested dockets.
Of $20K in penalties contested before the Commission, $15K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-10-16.
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.
20.1%
significant & substantial
3.6%
high negligence or reckless
20.1%
reasonably likely or greater
60.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.9% low, 88.5% moderate, 3.6% 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.
74 citations taken to the federal commission · 53% of citations on record
  • Settled 45 · 61%
  • Stood as issued 21 · 28%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 8 · 11%
88%
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 17 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
13%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$16K proposed, $13K 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 2014-08-06.
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 2010-94M Dismissal Lesnick 2010 $7K → $7K
CENT 2014-0527 Settlement Rae 2014 $2K → $2K
CENT20020144M Withdrawal Zielinski 2003 $2K → $350
CENT 2011-154M Dismissal Manning 2011 $1K → $1K
CENT 2012-589M Settlement Paez 2014 $1K → $552
CENT20000208M Withdrawal Manning 2002 $1K → $150
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: 2025-12-03
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
13
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg10
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (13)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-12-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-10-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2024-10-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-04-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 Washer Operator
2020-04-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-10-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2018-10-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dredge/Barge Operator
2018-10-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dredge/Barge Operator
2018-10-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2018-10-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dredge/Barge Operator
2011-07-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dredge/Barge Operator
2002-10-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.5 0.40 Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-10-08 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 Front-end Loader Operator
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.

LGEX-Perm-Akron recorded 9.14 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2019.

Injury rate, 2019
ⓘ 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.
9.14
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.94 and the all-US-mining average was 2.32 cases per 100 workers.
In Iowa, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.19 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
2019 * 9.14 0.00 0.000
2018 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2017 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2015 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2014 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2013 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2012 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2010 * 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. Higman Sand & Gravel Inc 1950 to 2015
  2. L.G. EVERIST, INC. 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 7
2025 6
2024 6
2023 5
2022 5
2021 5
2020 7
2019 8
2018 10
2017 9
2016 8
2015 8
2014 17
2013 14
2012 16
2011 17
2010 17
2009 14
2008 11
2007 6
2006 11
2005 16
2004 15
2003 4
2002 4
2001 4
2000 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

LGEX-Perm-Akron sits in Plymouth County, Iowa, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Plymouth County, Iowa · Population 25,699
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$81,600
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
2026 Q2 3,818 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 2,987 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 3,037 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,269 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,815 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,791 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,252 1 0 307.5
2024 Q3 3,788 3 0 792.0
Show 97 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 3,949 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,141 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 3,558 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,311 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,612 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,301 4 0 1738.4
2022 Q4 2,486 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,241 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,540 5 0 1412.4
2022 Q1 2,790 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,776 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,555 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,770 1 0 265.3
2021 Q1 2,781 1 0 359.6
2020 Q4 3,152 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,716 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 4,290 2 0 466.2
2020 Q1 3,385 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 4,022 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 5,866 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 7,763 1 0 128.8
2019 Q1 4,219 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 5,180 11 2 2123.6
2018 Q3 7,668 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 7,316 2 1 273.4
2018 Q1 3,630 5 1 1377.4
2017 Q4 5,357 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 7,768 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 7,219 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 3,990 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 4,180 2 2 478.5
2016 Q3 5,413 2 0 369.5
2016 Q2 6,006 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 3,249 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 5,072 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 6,195 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 6,157 8 1 1299.3
2015 Q1 3,031 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 8,103 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 8,629 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 8,253 18 1 2181.0
2014 Q1 3,331 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 9,820 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 6,623 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 6,679 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 960 3 0 3125.0
2012 Q4 4,972 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 6,533 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 4,997 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 4,041 3 0 742.4
2011 Q4 5,702 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 6,390 4 0 626.0
2011 Q1 3,699 1 0 270.3
2010 Q4 6,042 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 10,136 9 2 887.9
2010 Q2 2,226 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 4,020 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 4,020 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 4,830 8 5 1656.3
2009 Q2 3,150 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1,680 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 12,060 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 8,807 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 4,190 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 2,837 5 0 1762.4
2007 Q3 5,581 8 4 1433.4
2007 Q2 3,943 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,040 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,230 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 6,765 8 3 1182.6
2006 Q2 4,462 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 6,591 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 6,451 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 13,713 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 15,375 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 5,361 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 3,659 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 10,432 4 1 383.4
2004 Q2 10,771 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,293 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,406 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 2,594 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 2,786 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 2,540 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 2,498 10 0 4003.2
2002 Q3 2,717 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 2,756 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 2,477 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 2,593 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,772 8 3 2886.0
2001 Q2 2,902 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 2,641 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 2,602 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,640 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 2,746 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,645 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2019 · 1 incident

February 1, 2019 IA · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
L.G. EVERIST, INC. · Fall from machine

Cleaning out the back of the service truck and tripped when getting out of the back of the truck. Landed on EE's right side

2016 · 1 incident

April 15, 2016 IA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
L.G. EVERIST, INC. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Moving 4' cylinder and smashed finger between shelf and cylinder.

1989 · 1 incident

August 14, 1989 IA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Higman Sand & Gravel Inc · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE CAME AND ADVISED ME DURING PREIVOIUS WEEK HE HAD SLIPPED OFF LOADER FOOT WAS BOTHERING HIM WENT TO DR. AND TWISTED SPARIN AND CASTED.