Mining Incidents

Patterson Sand LLC Metal/Non-Metal

Patterson Sand LLC · Surface
Controlled by Andrew J Blubaugh
Burton, Harvey County, KS  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1401802

Patterson Sand LLC 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 2020
29
citations
9
significant & substantial
$5,400
proposed penalties
$3,094
paid to date
57% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,306 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
13
inspections on record
140
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: 140 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Patterson Sand LLC 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 2026-03-03.
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 455 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 535 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 575 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 455 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 535 2 0 3738.3
2024 Q3 575 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 535 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 575 4 3 6956.5
Show 18 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 565 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 605 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 685 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 655 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 475 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 635 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 810 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 634 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 655 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 810 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 928 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 361 5 0 13850.4
2020 Q4 561 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 878 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 478 7 3 14644.4
2020 Q1 281 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 203 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 98 0 0 0.0

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.

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