Mining Incidents

Loveville-MD Sand & Gravel: 11 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Chaney Enterprises LP
LEONARDTOWN, St Marys County, MD  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1800736

Loveville-MD Sand & Gravel has $5K 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
2000
Latest incident
Feb 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
11
citations
1
significant & substantial
$4,968
proposed penalties
$3,468
paid to date
70% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,500 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
29
inspections on record
588
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: 588 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Loveville-MD Sand & Gravel has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $2K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-03-04.
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.
9.1%
significant & substantial
18.2%
high negligence or reckless
9.1%
reasonably likely or greater
36.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 18.2% low, 63.6% moderate, 18.2% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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
YORK20010043M Settlement Melick 2001 $4K → $2K
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: 2025-03-26
9
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg9
Show the individual readings (9)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-03-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2025-03-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2023-05-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-05-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-05-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2022-05-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Scale Man
2017-03-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Shovel Operator
2017-03-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2017-03-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer 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.
Ownership history
  1. Chaney Enterprises LTD Partnership 1996 to 2024
  2. Sustainable Land Use, LLC 2024 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 0
2025 0
2024 1
2023 1
2022 1
2021 1
2020 1
2019 3
2018 10
2017 8
2016 7
2015 7
2002 0
2001 1
2000 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Loveville-MD Sand & Gravel sits in St. Mary's County, Maryland, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
St. Mary's County, Maryland · Population 114,372
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$114,580
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 0 0 0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 0 0 0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 1 0
2024 Q4 684 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 652 0 0 0.0
Show 45 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 637 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 629 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 609 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 688 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 678 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 647 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 625 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 705 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 652 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 588 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 701 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 545 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 581 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 569 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 641 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 652 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 462 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 653 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 616 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 624 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 772 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 743 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 723 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 748 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 698 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 723 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 738 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 678 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 685 1 0 1459.9
2016 Q4 711 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 726 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 709 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 618 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 732 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 709 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 0 0 0
2001 Q3 0 0 0
2001 Q2 0 0 0
2001 Q1 1,242 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 728 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,110 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,454 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,633 5 1 1899.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2000 · 1 incident

February 28, 2000 MD · Metal/Non-Metal coal sampler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Chaney Enterprises LTD Partnership · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS PICKING UP ODDS & ENDS AROUND PLANT. HE TRIED TO PICK UP SOME 3" REINFORCED HOSE OUT OF THE MUD. THE HOSE WAS STUCK, SO HE HOOKED THE END OF THE HOSE THROUGH HOLE IN LOADER BUCKET. WHEN TENSIONS WAS PUT ON HOSE IT CAME LOOSE FROM LOADER BUCKET AND HIT EE IN THE FACE.