Offerman Mineral Sand Plant 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
6
Years on record
2015–2022
Latest incident
Jun 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
22
citations
1
significant & substantial
$2,764
proposed penalties
$2,764
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 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: 577 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Offerman Mineral Sand Plant 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
22 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-13.
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: 2024-11-21
24%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
32
samples
17
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz194 over
Respirable dust, <.1mg11
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (32)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2023-09-27
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.54
0.5
1.08
Lab Technician
2018-12-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.98
0.35
2.80
Lab Technician
2018-12-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
2.83
2.33
1.21
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2018-12-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
2.56
2.14
1.20
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2024-11-21
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Mechanic
2024-11-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.28
0.96
0.29
Ball Mill Operator
2024-11-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.59
1.28
0.46
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2024-11-21
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2024-09-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2024-09-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2024-09-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2023-09-27
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2023-09-27
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Lab Technician
2023-09-27
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2021-02-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2021-02-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2021-02-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Mechanic
2021-02-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.14
0.42
0.33
Lab Technician
2021-02-10
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.33
10
0.03
Mechanic
2019-05-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.16
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2019-05-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2019-05-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.22
0.44
0.50
Lab Technician
2018-12-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.2
1.93
0.62
Mechanic
2018-01-11
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.22
1.31
0.17
Mechanic
2018-01-11
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.31
Sampler, Dust
2018-01-11
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.25
1.08
0.23
Hydrating Plant Operator
2016-10-26
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.26
1
0.26
Front-end Loader Operator
2016-10-26
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.54
1.38
0.39
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2015-09-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.37
0.82
0.45
Mechanic
2015-09-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2015-09-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.14
0.55
0.25
Mechanic
2015-09-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.14
1.29
0.11
Dry Screen Plant 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.
Offerman Mineral Sand Plant recorded 0.00 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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below 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 Georgia, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.20 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 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
2.15
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
2.83
0.00
0.000
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018
3.97
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
36
2025
25
2024
41
2023
45
2022
47
2021
45
2020
38
2019
45
2018
47
2017
40
2016
34
2015
30
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Offerman Mineral Sand Plant sits in Pierce County, Georgia, 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.
Pierce County, Georgia · Population 19,996
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$56,691
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
17,823
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
14,530
1
0
68.8
2025 Q4
18,574
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
7,637
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
5,515
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
5,632
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
18,064
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
20,904
0
0
0.0
Show 37 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
21,648
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
21,354
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
20,317
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
21,915
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
23,481
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
24,887
1
0
40.2
2022 Q4
22,677
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
23,370
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
23,469
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
23,619
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
23,194
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
22,605
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
22,491
0
0
0.0
2021 Q1
18,915
2
0
105.7
2020 Q4
17,379
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
15,925
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
16,393
3
0
183.0
2020 Q1
20,932
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
19,438
0
0
0.0
2019 Q3
23,891
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
22,694
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
26,482
2
1
75.5
2018 Q4
28,119
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
26,352
0
0
0.0
2018 Q2
24,289
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
21,922
1
0
45.6
2017 Q4
21,141
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
20,841
1
0
48.0
2017 Q2
20,981
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
20,985
0
0
0.0
2016 Q4
19,127
2
0
104.6
2016 Q3
18,277
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
17,540
1
0
57.0
2016 Q1
17,999
1
0
55.6
2015 Q4
18,517
0
0
0.0
2015 Q3
19,754
2
0
101.2
2015 Q2
12,752
1
0
78.4
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
6 on file
2022 · 1 incident
June 23, 2022GA · Metal/Non-Metalprep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee was descending stairway between 3rd and 2nd floor of the calciner bay. Employee's boot caught the next to last step causing employee to fall, striking left knee on the grating of the stair landing. The fall caused a laceration to the left knee that required 8 stitches to close.
2020 · 1 incident
September 3, 2020GA · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mechanic was asked to bolt pipe to sump which is a routine task. Employee was attempting to position the 6" diameter piece of rubber flex hose to valve when they felt pain in right shoulder.
2018 · 2 incidents
August 21, 2018GA · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerPOWERED HAULAGE
While replacing an elevator belt on a locked out conveyor, the employee was pulling the drive belt by hand to advance the new belt. The new belt began moving on its own and 2 of the employee's fingers were caught between the pulley and belt.
August 16, 2018GA · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Two employees went to grease a conveyor tail pulley. As the first was greasing, the second employee was investigating the source of a loud screeching noise. As second employee was walking behind the first employee, second employee stumbled and attempted to catch self on the tail pulley guard. Left arm contacted a roller and was discharged against the conveyor frame.
2017 · 1 incident
September 8, 2017GA · Metal/Non-Metalquality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistantHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lab Technician was opening a cabinet to get a rain coat and the cabinet fell over on the Technician's leg. Cabinet had been moved from its original position by a contractor and was not re-secured to the wall.
2015 · 1 incident
May 6, 2015GA · Metal/Non-Metalball/rod/pebble/hand/limestone/dry mill operator, roller operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Following the grand opening ceremony for this facility, which has not been commissioned, an employee lacerated his left thumb while removing a banner from a wire fence located outside of the dry mill property. The employee received stitches to close the wound.
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