Mining Incidents

Nees sand pit #1 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Chip Nees
Weatherford, Parker County, TX  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4105623

Nees sand pit #1 has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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 2022
28
citations
1
significant & substantial
$4,566
proposed penalties
$2,595
paid to date
57% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,971 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2022
13
inspections on record
95
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: 95 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Nees sand pit #1 has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
28 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-12.
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 Q4 290 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 277 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 267 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 292 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 283 6 0 21201.4
2024 Q3 275 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 261 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 241 7 0 29045.6
Show 7 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 224 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 209 2 0 9569.4
2023 Q2 207 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 270 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 490 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 558 5 0 8960.6
2022 Q2 304 3 1 9868.4

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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The full compliance file on Nees sand pit #1

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