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Mac Sand Sales: 191 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Mac Sand Sales · Surface
Controlled by William MacDonald
Vassar, Tuscola County, MI  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2001297

Mac Sand Sales has $42K in proposed MSHA penalties and $35K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
1983–2000
Latest incident
Mar 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
191
citations
35
significant & substantial
$41,876
proposed penalties
$6,928
paid to date
17% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $34,948 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
60
inspections on record
1,052
inspection hours
18.2
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.
191 citations across 1,052 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mac Sand Sales has $42K in proposed MSHA penalties and $35K 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.
$42K
proposed penalties
$42K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$35K
outstanding
176 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2013-02-28.
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.
19.9%
significant & substantial
17.6%
high negligence or reckless
19.9%
reasonably likely or greater
50.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.7% low, 76.7% moderate, 17.0% high, 0.6% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2011-01-12, 15 years ago
19%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
19
samples
16
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz163 over
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (19)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2010-12-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.68 0.64 2.63 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2002-01-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.85 0.41 4.51 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2001-01-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.73 0.45 1.62 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2011-01-12 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2010-12-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.56 0.36 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-12-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.35 1.04 0.34 Utility Man
2008-09-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.77 0.21 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2007-04-11 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 1.27 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-04-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2006-11-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.44 2.37 0.19 Front-end Loader Operator
2006-02-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.4 1.07 0.37 Front-end Loader Operator
2006-02-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.9 0.22 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2005-03-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.27 0.45 0.60 Supervisor, Co. Official
2005-03-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 1.07 0.21 Mechanic
2003-01-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.29 0.45 0.64 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2002-09-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 0.49 0.24 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-09-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 0.43 0.28 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2002-01-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 0.58 0.40 Front-end Loader Operator
2001-01-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.5 1.51 0.33 Utility Man
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.

Mac Sand Sales recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2007.

Injury rate, 2007
ⓘ 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 3.30 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 cases per 100 workers.
In Michigan, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.04 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
2007 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2000 * 26.29 26.29 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. Great Lakes Minerals Company 1950 to 1988
  2. Great Lakes Minerals Corp 1988 to 1996
  3. TUSCOLA MINERALS CO. 1996 to 2006
  4. MID MICHIGAN MINERALS LLC 2006 to 2008
  5. Tuscola Minerals Co. 2008 to 2017
  6. Mac Sand Sales 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2018 0
2017 5
2013 3
2012 3
2011 6
2010 5
2009 4
2008 6
2007 9
2006 10
2005 5
2004 4
2003 4
2002 5
2001 6
2000 10
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Mac Sand Sales sits in Tuscola County, Michigan, 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.
Tuscola County, Michigan · Population 53,071
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$62,847
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
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 192 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,500 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,144 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 852 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 690 34 2 49275.4
Show 52 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2012 Q4 770 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 895 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 890 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 845 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,720 8 1 4651.2
2011 Q3 2,559 4 0 1563.1
2011 Q2 2,930 6 0 2047.8
2011 Q1 2,640 12 2 4545.5
2010 Q4 1,620 8 2 4938.3
2010 Q3 2,130 7 4 3286.4
2010 Q2 3,260 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,640 4 1 2439.0
2009 Q4 1,750 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,752 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 2,171 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1,909 1 1 523.8
2008 Q4 2,516 3 1 1192.4
2008 Q3 1,764 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 3,684 2 0 542.9
2008 Q1 4,241 7 3 1650.6
2007 Q4 7,260 9 2 1239.7
2007 Q3 4,740 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,192 3 1 715.6
2007 Q1 3,969 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 6,011 3 0 499.1
2006 Q3 7,599 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 2,332 4 1 1715.3
2006 Q1 1,842 7 1 3800.2
2005 Q4 2,838 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 3,000 7 2 2333.3
2005 Q2 2,441 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,997 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 2,001 6 2 2998.5
2004 Q3 2,295 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 2,273 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,662 14 1 8423.6
2003 Q4 3,357 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 2,249 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 2,135 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,628 6 2 3685.5
2002 Q4 2,095 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 2,112 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 2,971 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 2,433 9 0 3699.1
2001 Q4 2,592 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,449 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 3,264 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 3,729 10 2 2681.7
2000 Q4 6,062 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 6,161 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 5,776 1 1 173.1
2000 Q1 4,820 9 2 1867.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

7 on file

2000 · 3 incidents

March 1, 2000 MI · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
TUSCOLA MINERALS CO. · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

FRACTURE RIGHT HAND TRYING TO CLOSE DOOR.

March 1, 2000 MI · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
TUSCOLA MINERALS CO. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

TORCHING ON PIECE OF STEEL.

January 7, 2000 MI · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
TUSCOLA MINERALS CO. · Struck by falling object

EE WAS TORCHING SCRAPE METAL A PIECE OF METAL FELL ON FINGER.

1999 · 2 incidents

June 22, 1999 MI · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
TUSCOLA MINERALS CO. · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING RECEIVED PIECE OF STEEL IN RIGHT EYE.

January 29, 1999 MI · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
TUSCOLA MINERALS CO. · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING RECEIVED PIECE OF STEEL IN HIS EYE.

1987 · 1 incident

1983 · 1 incident

July 22, 1983 MI · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Great Lakes Minerals Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

UNLOADING IRON FROM TRUCK - BACK STRAIN