Mining Incidents

Nees sand pit #1: 28 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Weatherford Truck Equipment · Surface
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.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
3.6%
significant & substantial
35.7%
high negligence or reckless
3.6%
reasonably likely or greater
3.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 64.3% moderate, 35.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Weatherford Truck Equipment 2022 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Nees sand pit #1 sits in Parker County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 1.5% 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.
Parker County, Texas · Population 158,079
1.5%
Mining share of county employment
$102,099
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 291 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 311 5 0 16077.2
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
Show 9 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 261 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 241 7 0 29045.6
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.