Mining Incidents

Sand Springs Sand & Gravel Co., Inc: 62 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Charles E Hinkle
Sand Springs, Tulsa County, OK  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3400381

Sand Springs Sand & Gravel Co., Inc has $8K 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
6
Years on record
1989–2003
Latest incident
Sep 2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
62
citations
10
significant & substantial
$7,708
proposed penalties
$7,708
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
54
inspections on record
376
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: 376 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 Springs Sand & Gravel Co., Inc has $8K 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
62 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-01.
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.
16.1%
significant & substantial
9.7%
high negligence or reckless
16.1%
reasonably likely or greater
58.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 9.7% low, 80.6% moderate, 9.7% 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: 2022-11-09, 3 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg5
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (8)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2022-11-09 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.17 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-03-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dredge/Barge Operator
2003-03-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 1.03 0.14 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-03-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 1.26 0.11 Utility Man
2001-04-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Building Repair/Maint.
2001-04-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2001-04-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2001-04-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dredge/Barge 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. Sand Springs Sand & Gravel Company Inc 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 5
2025 5
2024 5
2023 5
2022 5
2021 6
2020 6
2019 5
2018 5
2017 5
2016 6
2015 6
2014 6
2013 6
2012 5
2011 8
2010 8
2009 8
2008 7
2007 5
2006 6
2005 7
2004 5
2003 5
2002 8
2001 7
2000 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Sand Springs Sand & Gravel Co., Inc sits in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, where the Census mining category is 1.3% 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.
Tulsa County, Oklahoma · Population 673,708
1.3%
Mining share of county employment
$67,317
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
2026 Q2 2,829 4 2 1413.9
2026 Q1 2,536 1 0 394.3
2025 Q4 2,656 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,969 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,866 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,211 2 0 904.6
2024 Q4 2,855 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,904 0 0 0.0
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 2,709 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,257 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 2,235 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,562 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,659 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,386 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,535 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,524 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,636 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,751 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,218 1 0 450.9
2021 Q3 3,196 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,321 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,717 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,246 3 0 924.2
2020 Q3 3,144 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,785 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,677 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,294 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,404 1 0 416.0
2019 Q2 2,452 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2,015 1 0 496.3
2018 Q4 2,917 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,147 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,789 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,390 1 1 719.4
2017 Q4 1,898 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,799 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,562 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,653 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,288 2 0 874.1
2016 Q3 2,507 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,349 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,927 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2,239 1 0 446.6
2015 Q3 2,277 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 3,017 1 1 331.5
2015 Q1 2,128 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,806 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 3,192 2 0 626.6
2014 Q2 3,183 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,830 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,279 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,851 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 2,691 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 2,365 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,198 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,563 2 1 780.3
2012 Q2 2,458 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 2,201 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 3,088 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 4,105 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 3,701 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 2,814 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 3,756 4 1 1065.0
2010 Q3 3,672 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 4,309 1 1 232.1
2010 Q1 3,868 1 0 258.5
2009 Q4 4,360 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 4,649 1 0 215.1
2009 Q2 4,363 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 3,388 3 0 885.5
2008 Q4 3,859 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 4,471 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 3,425 1 0 292.0
2008 Q1 3,223 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 2,890 6 0 2076.1
2007 Q3 3,075 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 3,134 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 2,762 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,215 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 3,469 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 3,534 1 0 283.0
2006 Q1 3,724 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 4,483 1 0 223.1
2005 Q3 4,223 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 4,133 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 3,201 5 1 1562.0
2004 Q4 2,879 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 3,776 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 3,287 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 2,604 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,315 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 3,502 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 2,841 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 2,089 1 0 478.7
2002 Q4 2,500 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 3,090 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 3,622 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 3,110 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 3,473 3 1 863.8
2001 Q3 3,041 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 2,895 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 2,677 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 3,379 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 3,750 12 1 3200.0
2000 Q2 3,778 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 3,147 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2003 · 1 incident

September 26, 2003 OK · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Sand Springs Sand & Gravel Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS FOLLOWING SUPERVISOR UP STAIRS FROM RIVER AT THE END OF THE DAY. THE RIVER HAD WASHED DIRT & SILT AROUND THE BOTTOM FEW STEPS. IT WAS WET & MUDDY. THE EMPLOYEE STEPPED UP WITH LEF T FOOT, AS HE BROUGHT HIS RIGHT FOOT UP THE LEFT FOOT SLIPPED BACK OFF STEP. HE CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH THE OUTSIDE OF HIS LEFT FOOT. HIS ANKLE TWISTED CAUSING INJURY.

2002 · 1 incident

2001 · 1 incident

April 17, 2001 OK · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Sand Springs Sand & Gravel Company Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

ACCIDENT REPORTED 4/18/01. IT IS THOUGHT EE PICKED UP THE TONGUE OF A TRAILER TO CLEAN IT OUT. SOMEHOW IN THE PROCESS HE PULLED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

1995 · 1 incident

1994 · 1 incident

December 28, 1994 OK · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Sand Springs Sand & Gravel Company Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE EXPLANATION ATTACHED HE WAS SHOVELING DIRT FROM UNDER THE SCALES. FILLING THE SHOVEL AND FLIPPING THE DIRT TO THE SIDE. HE TWISTED TO THE LEFT TO UNLOAD THE SHOVE L, WHEN HIS LOWER BACK POPPED, CAUSING PAIN. HE DROPPED THE SHOVEL, BRACED HIMSELF AND WAITED UNTIL THE PAIN EASED ENOUGH TO CLIMB OUT OF THE HOLE. HE WENT HOME TO TRY TO REST TO SEE IF IT

1989 · 1 incident

May 15, 1989 OK · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

DRIVER DELIVERED LOA OF SND TO CUST. GOT OT OF TRUCK TO ROLL UP TARP AND CALF MUSCLE CRAMPED FELL 6 FT. ON BACK IN HIP OF BACK .