Mining Incidents

Ogallala Rock Products: 14 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Bob D. Leetch
Franklin, Franklin County, NE  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2501279

Ogallala Rock Products has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $1K in penalties since 2012, with $89 outstanding.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
—
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
14
citations
4
significant & substantial
$1,464
proposed penalties
$1,375
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date. The remaining $89 was reduced, settled, contested or is still owed.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
10
inspections on record
111
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: 111 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Ogallala Rock Products has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $89 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$89
outstanding
10 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2013-09-30.
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.
40.0%
significant & substantial
50.0%
high negligence or reckless
40.0%
reasonably likely or greater
40.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 50.0% moderate, 50.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Ogallala Rock Products 2012 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2013 1
2012 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Ogallala Rock Products sits in Franklin County, Nebraska, 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.
Franklin County, Nebraska · Population 2,868
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$57,692
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; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. 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
2013 Q1 176 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 180 1 0 5555.6
2012 Q3 195 2 0 10256.4
2012 Q2 114 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 80 10 4 125000.0

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.