Mining Incidents

Sand Hill Ranch: 14 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

FTG Construction Materials Inc · Surface
Controlled by Anthony J Alegre
byron, Contra Costa County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0405224

Sand Hill Ranch has $1K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
14
citations
3
significant & substantial
$1,293
proposed penalties
$1,293
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
11
inspections on record
86
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: 86 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Sand Hill Ranch has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
14 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-08-10.
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.
21.4%
significant & substantial
7.1%
high negligence or reckless
21.4%
reasonably likely or greater
42.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 35.7% low, 57.1% 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: 2001-07-05, 25 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2001-07-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.06 1.15 0.92 Front-end Loader Operator
2001-07-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.45 0.89 0.51 Bulldozer 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. FTG Construction Materials Inc 1993 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2006 1
2005 4
2004 2
2003 2
2002 4
2001 3
2000 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Sand Hill Ranch sits in Contra Costa County, California, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Contra Costa County, California · Population 1,161,458
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$125,727
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
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 0 0 0
2006 Q2 85 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 52 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 387 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 4,019 3 0 746.5
2005 Q2 3,831 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 482 0 0 0.0
Show 18 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2004 Q4 140 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 460 2 1 4347.8
2003 Q4 64 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 48 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 433 2 0 4618.9
2003 Q1 91 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 447 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 377 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 115 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 134 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 255 1 0 3921.6
2001 Q3 342 4 0 11695.9
2001 Q2 337 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 243 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 204 2 2 9803.9
2000 Q2 197 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 135 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.