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Patterson Sand LLC: 29 MSHA citations 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
14
inspections on record
148
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: 148 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘ A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2020-06-24.
On record since 2020.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, 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.
Violation severity profile
ⓘ Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
32.1%
significant & substantial
7.1%
high negligence or reckless
32.1%
reasonably likely or greater
53.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 3.6% low, 89.3% moderate, 7.1% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2024-08-28
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-08-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader 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.
Ownership history
  1. Patterson Sand LLC 2019 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 4
2025 4
2024 4
2023 4
2022 4
2021 4
2020 4
2019 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Patterson Sand LLC sits in Harvey County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Harvey County, Kansas · Population 33,823
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$73,269
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 420 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 348 11 3 31609.2
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
Show 20 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 535 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 575 4 3 6956.5
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.