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NASAG PIT 2: 159 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Russellville, Franklin County, AL  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0103149

NASAG PIT 2 has $55K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2010–2025
Latest incident
Oct 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
159
citations
51
significant & substantial
$55,445
proposed penalties
$46,828
paid to date
84% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $8,617 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Alliance Sand and Aggregates LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
79
inspections on record
1,137
inspection hours
14.0
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.
159 citations across 1,137 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

NASAG PIT 2 has $55K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 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.
$55K
proposed penalties
$47K
current assessed
$47K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
157 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
Of $28K in penalties contested before the Commission, $20K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-09-02.
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.
32.3%
significant & substantial
14.6%
high negligence or reckless
32.3%
reasonably likely or greater
50.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 15.8% low, 69.6% moderate, 14.6% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
12 citations taken to the federal commission · 8% of citations on record
  • Settled 12 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 7 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
30%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$28K proposed, $20K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2020-05-19.
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
SE 2011-424M Settlement Tureck 2011 $11K → $5K
SE 2020-0179 Settlement 2020 $10K → $10K
SE 2011-172M Settlement Bulluck 2014 $4K → $2K
SE 2011-256M Settlement Bulluck 2011 $2K → $827
SE 2014-117M Settlement Lesnick 2014 $1K → $1K
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: 2025-09-10
13%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
30
samples
8
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz81 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg21
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (30)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2007-10-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.58 0.49 1.18 Truck Driver
2025-09-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mechanic
2025-09-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2025-09-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-03-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-03-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-09-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2023-09-22 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 2.05 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-09-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2020-06-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mechanic
2020-06-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2020-06-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-10-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-10-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2009-10-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mechanic
2007-10-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 0.36 0.69 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2007-10-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 1.25 0.16 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-05-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2005-05-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2005-05-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.47 1.06 0.44 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-05-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-05-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 1.76 0.19 Truck Driver
2003-04-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.35 0.46 Bulldozer Operator
2003-04-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-04-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2003-04-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2000-07-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2000-07-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.34 0.35 0.97 Bulldozer Operator
2000-07-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2000-07-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.27 1.81 0.15 Backhoe 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.

NASAG PIT 2 recorded 5.16 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ 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.
5.16
total case rate
5.16
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Alabama, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.52 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
2025 * 5.16 5.16 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 0.00 0.00 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. North Alabama Sand & Gravel, Inc. 1999 to 2005
  2. North Alabama Sand & Gravel, LLC 2005 to 2009
  3. Alliance Sand and Aggregates LLC 2009 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 16
2025 16
2024 16
2023 14
2022 14
2021 16
2020 18
2019 24
2018 20
2017 19
2016 19
2015 20
2014 19
2013 18
2012 19
2011 17
2010 17
2009 16
2008 10
2007 12
2006 10
2005 9
2004 8
2003 8
2002 7
2001 8
2000 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

NASAG PIT 2 sits in Franklin County, Alabama, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Franklin County, Alabama · Population 31,978
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$51,493
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 7,946 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 10,006 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 7,687 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 10,737 1 0 93.1
2025 Q2 9,656 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 10,666 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 10,309 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 9,924 9 1 906.9
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 10,068 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 9,401 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 9,416 1 0 106.2
2023 Q3 9,703 4 1 412.2
2023 Q2 9,681 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 9,264 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 10,060 2 1 198.8
2022 Q3 9,923 3 1 302.3
2022 Q2 9,923 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 8,679 4 1 460.9
2021 Q4 9,095 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 9,761 1 0 102.4
2021 Q2 11,315 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 9,012 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 10,914 1 0 91.6
2020 Q3 11,729 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 12,539 6 0 478.5
2020 Q1 11,757 6 3 510.3
2019 Q4 12,164 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 12,741 3 1 235.5
2019 Q2 14,178 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 12,689 5 1 394.0
2018 Q4 11,210 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 12,401 5 1 403.2
2018 Q2 11,552 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 10,954 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 13,866 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 12,712 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 13,101 2 1 152.7
2017 Q1 12,382 8 2 646.1
2016 Q4 12,554 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 11,997 1 0 83.4
2016 Q2 12,937 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 9,952 2 1 201.0
2015 Q4 12,168 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 13,141 1 0 76.1
2015 Q2 13,917 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 11,092 1 0 90.2
2014 Q4 12,991 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 12,113 2 0 165.1
2014 Q2 11,516 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 10,240 5 1 488.3
2013 Q4 11,007 11 3 999.4
2013 Q3 10,409 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 11,531 2 0 173.4
2013 Q1 10,784 4 1 370.9
2012 Q4 9,850 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 11,569 2 0 172.9
2012 Q2 12,140 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 10,291 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 11,051 2 1 181.0
2011 Q3 11,837 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 10,608 1 1 94.3
2011 Q1 8,480 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 10,517 5 3 475.4
2010 Q3 11,602 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 10,992 8 4 727.8
2010 Q1 8,729 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 7,762 5 3 644.2
2009 Q3 10,495 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 11,029 5 3 453.4
2009 Q1 5,510 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 5,314 5 1 940.9
2008 Q3 6,164 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 6,387 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 7,683 2 0 260.3
2007 Q4 8,006 4 2 499.6
2007 Q3 8,215 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 7,505 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 6,604 4 3 605.7
2006 Q4 6,705 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 6,741 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 6,459 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 5,314 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 4,341 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 4,949 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 5,379 12 4 2230.9
2005 Q1 5,334 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 5,900 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 5,500 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 4,285 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 4,260 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 4,141 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 4,234 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 4,300 1 0 232.6
2003 Q1 3,123 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 3,624 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 3,607 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 3,786 2 0 528.3
2002 Q1 3,568 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 3,595 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 4,202 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 3,990 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 3,961 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 3,917 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 4,347 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 4,089 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 4,523 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2025 · 1 incident

October 17, 2025 AL · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Alliance Sand and Aggregates LLC · Fall onto or against objects

The employee was walking into the scale area of the office and tripped over a mat in the office causing them to fall against the counter, breaking their arm. They also hit their nose and head. They never lost consciousness and were transported to the hospital for treatment. They are doing well and a full recovery is expected.

2010 · 1 incident

June 7, 2010 AL · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Alliance Sand and Aggregates LLC · Fall onto or against objects

Operator went to get in truck to move material on yard and when he stepped up on the "swing" step, the cable broke causing the operator to fall and hit his right knee on other metal steps.