Mining Incidents

Sand Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Brauntex Materials · Surface
Controlled by Dean Fischer
Seguin, Guadalupe County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4105276

Sand Pit has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $755 outstanding across 1 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 2017
44
citations
7
significant & substantial
$6,864
proposed penalties
$6,109
paid to date
89% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $755 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
23
inspections on record
273
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: 273 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 Pit has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $755 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$755
outstanding
39 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-26.
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 1,348 1 0 741.8
2025 Q3 1,364 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,000 1 0 500.0
2025 Q1 1,967 1 1 508.4
2024 Q4 1,946 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,948 3 1 1540.0
2024 Q2 1,977 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,913 3 0 1568.2
Show 26 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,979 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,217 2 0 902.1
2023 Q2 2,002 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,811 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,110 1 0 473.9
2022 Q3 2,053 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,156 1 0 463.8
2022 Q1 1,758 1 0 568.8
2021 Q4 2,074 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,864 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 719 1 0 1390.8
2021 Q1 1,102 2 0 1814.9
2020 Q4 1,282 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,277 2 0 1566.2
2020 Q2 1,398 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,006 1 1 994.0
2019 Q4 1,215 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,229 4 1 3254.7
2019 Q2 1,280 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,324 1 0 755.3
2018 Q4 978 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,349 2 0 1482.6
2018 Q2 1,391 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,347 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,294 6 2 4636.8
2017 Q3 1,686 6 1 3558.7

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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