Mining Incidents

Maurice Sand Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Lafayette Materials · Surface
Controlled by Bernard C LaBouef
Maurice, Vermilion County, LA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1601507

Maurice Sand Pit has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $12K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2011
70
citations
17
significant & substantial
$20,666
proposed penalties
$8,684
paid to date
42% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $11,982 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
39
inspections on record
481
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: 481 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Maurice Sand Pit has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $12K 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.
$21K
proposed penalties
$21K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$12K
outstanding
70 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-02.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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 Q2 585 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 976 8 1 8196.7
2024 Q4 1,635 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,472 7 4 4755.4
2024 Q2 1,819 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 908 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,639 1 0 610.1
2023 Q3 1,723 0 0 0.0
Show 50 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q2 1,630 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,902 6 5 3154.6
2022 Q4 1,756 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,664 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,611 1 0 620.7
2022 Q1 1,769 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,784 2 0 1121.1
2021 Q3 1,715 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,689 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,484 1 0 673.9
2020 Q4 1,638 3 0 1831.5
2020 Q3 1,292 2 1 1548.0
2020 Q2 1,045 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 923 4 0 4333.7
2019 Q4 1,069 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,224 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,631 1 0 613.1
2019 Q1 1,056 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,133 2 0 1765.2
2018 Q3 1,181 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,116 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,016 3 0 2952.8
2017 Q4 1,100 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,054 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 978 1 0 1022.5
2017 Q1 998 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,201 2 1 1665.3
2016 Q3 1,345 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,213 1 0 824.4
2016 Q1 1,044 2 0 1915.7
2015 Q4 1,132 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,246 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,084 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,319 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,405 1 0 711.7
2014 Q3 944 1 1 1059.3
2014 Q2 1,774 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,792 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,739 2 1 1150.1
2013 Q3 1,914 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,785 1 0 560.2
2013 Q1 1,098 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,948 1 0 513.3
2012 Q3 1,273 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,373 2 0 1456.7
2012 Q1 1,260 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,713 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,823 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 746 2 0 2681.0
2011 Q1 623 4 1 6420.5

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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