Mining Incidents

MLH Excavation, LLC: 24 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

MLH Excavation, LLC · Surface
Gainesville, Ozark County, MO  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2302474

MLH Excavation, LLC has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2016
24
citations
3
significant & substantial
$3,263
proposed penalties
$3,263
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
22
inspections on record
272
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: 272 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

MLH Excavation, LLC has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
23 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-24.
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.
12.5%
significant & substantial
16.7%
high negligence or reckless
12.5%
reasonably likely or greater
25.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 16.7% low, 66.7% moderate, 16.7% high, 0.0% 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: 2026-06-25
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
3
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-06-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-05-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mucking Mach. Operator
2024-07-10 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 10 0.01 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
  1. MLH Excavation, LLC 2014 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 3
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

MLH Excavation, LLC sits in Ozark County, Missouri, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Ozark County, Missouri · Population 8,773
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$42,329
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 915 1 1 1092.9
2026 Q1 990 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 915 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,080 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,050 1 0 952.4
2025 Q1 1,040 2 0 1923.1
2024 Q4 470 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 530 0 0 0.0
Show 34 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 420 2 0 4761.9
2023 Q4 395 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 405 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 463 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 440 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 405 1 0 2469.1
2022 Q2 440 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 420 1 0 2381.0
2021 Q4 390 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 720 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 620 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 640 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 610 1 0 1639.3
2020 Q3 690 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 630 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 625 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 667 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 760 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 756 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 630 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 595 1 0 1680.7
2018 Q3 720 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 745 1 0 1342.3
2018 Q1 522 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 509 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 621 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 587 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 543 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 503 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 613 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 266 4 0 15037.6
2016 Q1 242 0 0 0.0

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.