Mid-States Sand LLC has $33K 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
6
Years on record
2008–2014
Latest incident
Aug 2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
115
citations
22
significant & substantial
$33,119
proposed penalties
$21,586
paid to date
65% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $11,533 gap.
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: 513 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Mid-States Sand LLC has $33K 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.
$33K
proposed penalties
$33K
current assessed
$22K
paid to date
$12K
outstanding
111 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-21.
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.
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: 2024-09-18
11
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg10
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (11)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2024-09-18
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dredge/Barge Operator
2024-09-18
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2024-09-18
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Supervisor, Co. Official
2023-06-22
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2021-05-25
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2021-05-25
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dredge/Barge Operator
2012-09-18
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2010-03-18
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2010-03-18
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.16
Dredge/Barge Operator
2002-12-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2002-12-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
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.
Ownership history
Mid-States Dredging & Material Co., Inc.2002 to 2004
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
3
2025
3
2024
3
2023
3
2022
3
2021
3
2020
4
2019
4
2018
3
2017
2
2014
3
2013
3
2012
3
2011
3
2010
4
2009
2
2008
4
2007
4
2006
4
2005
6
2004
3
2003
4
2002
4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Mid-States Sand LLC sits in Sedgwick County, Kansas, 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.
Sedgwick County, Kansas · Population 524,810
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$67,675
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
Mid-States Sand LLC · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee was hand turning a manual Winch, his finger was caught between the roller & side rail. Laceration on his Middle Finger on the Right Hand. He received 4 stitches and returned back to work the same day.
Mid-States Sand LLC · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Removing Patch from suction pipe when patch slipped from grip and pinched right thumb between if and from rail on dredge ladder resulting in possible fracture of tip of right thumb
Walking on lower catwalk, bumped head into cross beam knocking hard hat off head, bent to pick up hat and stood up into steel valve control cut 1 1 4 gash in left of scalp.
Moving back up anchor from east bank to west bank. Cable stuck in the dirt pile and EE flipped the cable over the dirt pile and lost his footing and fell to the bottom of the pile landing on his back and neck.