Mining Incidents

River Road Metal/Non-Metal

Mt. Hermon, Washington County, LA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1601574

River Road has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $642 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 2018
35
citations
8
significant & substantial
$6,408
proposed penalties
$5,766
paid to date
90% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $642 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
16
inspections on record
248
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: 248 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

River Road has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $642 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$642
outstanding
34 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-28.
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 4,395 2 0 455.1
2025 Q3 4,189 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,598 4 1 1111.7
2025 Q1 3,803 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 6,365 11 4 1728.2
2024 Q3 5,697 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 6,586 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 5,057 0 0 0.0
Show 21 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 6,123 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 4,948 5 1 1010.5
2023 Q2 4,085 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,087 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,026 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 4,055 1 0 246.6
2021 Q1 3,892 3 0 770.8
2020 Q4 2,951 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,831 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,766 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,186 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,948 3 1 759.9
2019 Q3 5,300 1 0 188.7
2019 Q2 4,672 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 4,037 1 0 247.7
2018 Q4 4,602 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,310 1 1 302.1
2018 Q2 3,454 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,952 2 0 1024.6
2017 Q4 880 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 360 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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A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.