Republic Pit - South has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
13
Years on record
1988–2020
Latest incident
Nov 2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
135
citations
27
significant & substantial
$18,990
proposed penalties
$18,346
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $644 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.
135 citations across 1,035 inspection hours.
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.
2
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2019-05-14.
On record since 2014.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
Republic Pit - South has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$19K
proposed penalties
$18K
current assessed
$18K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
127 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $1K in penalties contested before the Commission, $163 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-03.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
2citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
Settled
1 · 50%
Vacated or withdrawn
1 · 50%
0%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘCounts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
84%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1K proposed, $163 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2010-04-02.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
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: 2025-07-24
3%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
33
samples
30
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz121 over
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz15
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz3
Respirable dust, <.1mg3
Show the individual readings (33)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2010-10-06
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.97
0.89
2.21
Bulldozer Operator
2025-07-24
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.31
10
0.03
Front-end Loader Operator
2025-07-24
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
1.43
10
0.14
Cont. Miner Operator
2025-07-24
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
3.13
10
0.31
Cont. Miner Operator
2025-07-24
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.16
10
0.02
Truck Driver
2023-03-01
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0
10
0.00
Front-end Loader Operator
2023-03-01
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
2.05
10
0.21
Truck Driver
2023-03-01
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
3.56
10
0.36
Cont. Miner Operator
2023-03-01
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.67
10
0.07
Truck Driver
2019-05-15
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.42
10
0.04
Front-end Loader Operator
2019-05-15
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.87
10
0.09
Truck Driver
2019-05-15
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.19
10
0.02
Bulldozer Operator
2019-05-15
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
1.99
10
0.20
Cont. Miner Operator
2017-11-01
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.83
10
0.08
Bulldozer Operator
2017-11-01
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.2
0.73
0.27
Truck Driver
2017-11-01
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2017-11-01
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.93
3.14
0.30
Cutting Mach Operator
2013-01-09
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.2
10
0.02
Front-end Loader Operator
2013-01-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2013-01-09
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.19
10
0.02
Crusher Oper/Worker
2012-02-01
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.5
0.64
0.78
Truck Driver
2012-02-01
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2012-02-01
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.21
0.8
0.26
Truck Driver
2012-02-01
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.14
1.63
0.09
Front-end Loader Operator
2010-11-23
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.23
0.95
0.24
Bulldozer Operator
2010-10-06
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.63
1.18
0.53
Truck Driver
2010-10-06
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.68
2.22
0.31
Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-02-25
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
9.52
10
0.95
Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-02-25
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
3.09
10
0.31
Bulldozer Operator
2009-02-25
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
4.23
10
0.42
Drill Operator, Rotary
2001-06-20
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.16
1.24
0.13
Truck Driver
2001-06-20
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.52
0.72
0.72
Truck Driver
2001-06-20
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.2
0.91
0.22
Truck Driver
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.
Republic Pit - South 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 Oklahoma, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.92 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 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018 *
6.21
6.21
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
12
2025
12
2024
14
2023
15
2022
15
2021
15
2020
14
2019
14
2018
14
2017
15
2016
10
2015
10
2014
11
2013
11
2012
11
2011
12
2010
12
2009
12
2008
15
2007
17
2006
17
2005
17
2004
16
2003
16
2002
15
2001
17
2000
13
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Republic Pit - South sits in Jackson County, Oklahoma, where the Census mining category is 1.0% 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.
Jackson County, Oklahoma · Population 24,730
1.0%
Mining share of county employment
$61,497
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
Company haul truck driver was found crossways on the haul road with truck facing a retention berm. EMS was notified and driver was air lifted to Wichita Falls Tx for treatment and care. American Gypsum was notified and they notified MSHA. Unknown cause of accident. It was reported by EMS personnel that employee had stated they had blacked out.
2018 · 1 incident
August 21, 2018OK · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerPOWERED HAULAGE
On August 21, 2018 the equipment operator in the quarry dept serviced and inspected the company truck #380 and the employee stated the truck was on good working order. Afterwards the equipment operator was driving the company vehicle to the pit area to deliver diesel. Operator went off the berm into pit. EE hit head on the frt window causing a 3-4" laceration on forehead.
2016 · 1 incident
October 17, 2016OK · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Removing hydraulic lines and brackets from parking brake. The hose and bracket fell downward pinning employee's arm against the steering cylinder causing employee to strain shoulder
2013 · 1 incident
May 29, 2013OK · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
5/12 EE HELPED SHOVEL MAT'L DUE TO CRUSHER CONVEYOR JAM. FROM 8AM TO 11:20AM & FROM 4:30PM TO 5:20PM 5/13 EE RAN WATER WAGON FOR APPROX 2 HRS. STATED THAT HE FELT IT JOLT HIM. 5/14 EE AWOKE WITH TINGLING/NUMBNESS IN HIS ARM & HAND. DIAGNOSED AS DEGENERATIVE BULGING DISCS AGGRAVATED BY SHOVELING & OPERATION WATER WAGON
2001 · 1 incident
April 4, 2001OK · Metal/Non-Metalbackhoe operator, trackhoe operator, crane operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
ON THE MORNING OF 4-4-01 EE REPORTED THAT HE SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE CLIMBING ONTO A CAT 777B HAUL TRUCK. HE REPORTED THAT HE HIT HIS CHEST ON THE STEPS, SLIGHTLY KNOCKING THE WIND OUT OF HIM, AND ALSO JARRED HIS BACK WHEN HE HIT THE GROUND.
1999 · 1 incident
June 3, 1999OK · Metal/Non-Metalshaft repair, skip tender, station tenderPOWERED HAULAGE
THIS INJURY IS NOT A DEFINITE ON SITE INJURY BUT WAS POSSIBLY CONTRIBUTED TO BY THE REPETATIVE TURNING OF THE HEAD AND NECK AND THE BOUNCING ACTION OF THE 980 C FRONTEND LOADER IN WHICH PAT OP ERATES TO LOAD TRUCKS.
DRIVER STANDING DIRECTLY BEHIND TRAILER AS IT WAS BEING LOADED TAIL GATE POPPED OUTWARD STRIKING DRIVER ON FOREHEAD.
October 17, 1988OK · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techEXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
PULLED LEVVER AND LOKED BACK TO WQATCH LOAD DUMP SOMETHING POPPED IN NECK AND BACK CAUSING HIM DISCOMFORT CHANGED STORY DURING DEPOSITION FOR WORKMANS COMP GIVING OTHER REASONS FOR HIS INJURY.