Smith Sand Company Inc has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $11K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2003–2004
Latest incident
Feb 2004
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
24
citations
5
significant & substantial
$12,265
proposed penalties
$1,001
paid to date
8% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $11,264 gap.
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: 145 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Smith Sand Company Inc has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $11K 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.
$12K
proposed penalties
$12K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$11K
outstanding
24 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-05-06.
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.
Smith Sand Company Inc recorded 18.25 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2003.
Injury rate, 2003
ⓘ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.
18.25
total case rate
9.13
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.43 cases per 100 workers.
In Kansas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.26 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
2003 *
18.25
9.13
0.000
2002 *
0.00
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
2004
7
2003
9
2002
14
2001
8
2000
6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Smith Sand Company Inc sits in Finney County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 1.1% 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.
Finney County, Kansas · Population 38,001
1.1%
Mining share of county employment
$72,437
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
2004 Q1
5,715
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
3,273
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
8,075
1
0
123.8
2003 Q2
5,040
6
0
1190.5
2003 Q1
5,528
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
6,608
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
11,155
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
12,309
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2002 Q1
7,827
10
2
1277.6
2001 Q4
5,110
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
6,032
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
2,920
3
0
1027.4
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file
2004 · 1 incident
February 20, 2004KS · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanPOWERED HAULAGE
WAS CHECKING OUT EQUIPMENT UPON START UP, SLIPPED AND FELL GETTING LEFT HAND CAUGHT IN PULLEYS ON UNDERNEATH SIDE OF CONVEYOR. HAD CRUSHING DAMAGE TO MEAT & FLESH ON LEFT HAND REQUIRING SURGER Y TO CLEAN AND STITCH HAND UP.
2003 · 3 incidents
December 2, 2003KS · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanFALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
GROUNDSMAN SHUT DOWN CRUSHING PLANT TO LOOK UNDER CONVERYOR, WHILE INSPECTING CONVEYOR, ROCKS FELL FROM TOP OF COLD FEED BIN STRIKING HIM IN HEAD CAUSING DIZZINESS & BLURRED VISION.