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Portable Unit: 24 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Buechel Stone Corp · Surface
Arkansas City, Cowley County, KS  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1401728

Portable Unit has $4K 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
1
Years on record
2023
Latest incident
May 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
24
citations
1
significant & substantial
$3,639
proposed penalties
$3,639
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Buechel Stone Corp's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
28
inspections on record
249
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: 249 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Portable Unit has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
24 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-03-19.
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.
4.2%
significant & substantial
8.3%
high negligence or reckless
4.2%
reasonably likely or greater
37.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 4.2% none, 12.5% low, 75.0% moderate, 8.3% 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: 2024-02-27
8
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (8)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-02-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-02-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-09-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cutting Mach Operator
2023-09-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-05-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-05-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2017-08-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-08-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cutting Mach 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. Pray Stone Company, Inc. 2011 to 2020
  2. Buechel Stone Corp 2020 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 4
2022 5
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 3
2017 3
2016 2
2015 3
2014 3
2013 2
2012 2
2011 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Unit sits in Cowley County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Cowley County, Kansas · Population 34,487
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$58,263
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 402 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,062 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 1,470 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 823 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 573 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 852 5 0 5868.5
2024 Q4 325 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 302 0 0 0.0
Show 54 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 700 1 0 1428.6
2024 Q1 1,216 3 1 2467.1
2023 Q4 1,618 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,921 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,686 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,192 1 0 456.2
2022 Q4 2,392 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,067 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,109 1 0 474.2
2022 Q1 808 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 31 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,221 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 987 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,373 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,082 3 0 2772.6
2020 Q3 862 2 0 2320.2
2020 Q2 102 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 170 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 199 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 207 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 186 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 175 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 179 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 289 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 374 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 300 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 347 2 0 5763.7
2017 Q3 372 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 196 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 206 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 169 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 215 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 193 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 218 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 176 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 394 4 0 10152.3
2015 Q2 346 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 286 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 337 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 444 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 378 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 301 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 356 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 248 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 111 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 143 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 140 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 321 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 391 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 321 2 0 6230.5
2011 Q4 749 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,120 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,033 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 544 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2023 · 1 incident

May 1, 2023 KS · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Buechel Stone Corp · Fall from machine

Employee was getting out of the cab of the JCB and missed the step. EE didn't grab the hand rail first and then fell backwards landing on EE's lower back and butt.