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: 159 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 Plant #131 has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
23 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $1K in penalties contested before the Commission, $811 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-08-06.
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.
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: 2004-02-11, 22 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
Respirable dust, <.1mg3
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (8)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2004-02-11
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.44
1.37
0.32
Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-02-11
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.17
0.84
0.20
Laborer, Bullgang
2004-02-11
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.55
2.06
0.27
Front-end Loader Operator
2001-05-23
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Shovel Operator
2001-05-23
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.21
0.8
0.26
Laborer, Bullgang
2001-05-23
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2001-05-23
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2001-05-23
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.12
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.
Sand Plant #131 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2002.
Injury rate, 2002
ⓘ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 4.17 and the all-US-mining average was 5.05 cases per 100 workers.
In Alabama, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.25 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
2002 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2001 *
8.52
0.00
0.000
2000 *
8.38
0.00
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
2005
0
2004
5
2003
10
2002
10
2001
11
2000
12
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Sand Plant #131 sits in Marshall County, Alabama, 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.
Marshall County, Alabama · Population 98,712
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$60,946
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
2005 Q1
0
0
0
2004 Q4
0
0
0
2004 Q3
923
0
0
0.0
2004 Q2
3,855
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
4,165
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
4,261
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
4,699
1
0
212.8
2003 Q2
5,410
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2003 Q1
4,747
3
2
632.0
2002 Q4
4,490
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
5,192
6
2
1155.6
2002 Q2
5,784
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
4,690
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
4,882
13
6
2662.8
2001 Q3
5,760
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
6,741
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
6,087
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
5,318
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
6,830
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
6,115
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
5,611
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
19 on file
2005 · 1 incident
June 1, 2005AL · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerMACHINERY
Employee states that over time (3-4 years) operating the backhoe exacerbated an existing neck condition. When the mine closed, he began to see an occupational medicine doctor and to work at employer's construction projects. He ultimately had neck surgery in July 2005.
2001 · 1 incident
January 9, 2001AL · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Apac Alabama Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
EE WAS PRYING ROCKS WITH BAR AT CRUSHER, BAR SLIPPED.
2000 · 1 incident
September 28, 2000AL · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
EE WAS STANDING ON LADDER CUTTING PLASTIC TIE STRINGS TO SECURE WIRING TO FRAME. USING A KNIFE, HOLDING LADDER WITH ONE HAND. WHEN EE CUT THROUGH STRING, THE KNIFE CONTINUED TO TRAVEL, SLICING LEFT HAND OVER THREE KNUCKLES.
1999 · 1 incident
November 9, 1999AL · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
GRID ABOVE FEED BIN BLINDED OVER WITH ROCK EE WAS DISLODGED ROCK WITH WOODEN POLE WHEN ROCKSUDDENLY DISLODGED. EE LOST BALANCE & FELL FORWARD INTO EMPTY BIN LANDING ON ANKLE CAUSING SPRAI N TO ANKLE
1998 · 1 incident
June 10, 1998AL · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
April 6, 1994AL · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EE WAS CHECKING OIL IN HEAD PULLY MOTOR ON 80FT CRUSHER BELT DID NOT TELL EE WORKERS WHERE OR WHAT HE WAS DOING OTHER STRAPLIER THE OTHER WORKER YELLED BUT EE DID NOT ANSWER STARTED BELT EEE G OT ARM CAUGHT IN BELT PULLY
January 11, 1993AL · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorSTEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
INJ OCCURRED WHILE THE EMPL WAS HOLDING ONE END OF A PIPE AND ANOTHER EMPL WAS HOLDING THE OTHER END AND DROPPED IT PUTTING FULL WEIGHT OF THE PIPE ON THE 1ST EMPL. EMPL BACK WAS PULLED.
March 27, 1992AL · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)