Mining Incidents

SOUTH CENTRAL SAND & GRAVEL: 95 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

South Central Sand & Gravel · Surface
Controlled by James A Nier
Piketon, Pike County, OH  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3303862

SOUTH CENTRAL SAND & GRAVEL has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $948 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 2001
95
citations
21
significant & substantial
$17,193
proposed penalties
$16,245
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $948 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
46
inspections on record
504
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: 504 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

SOUTH CENTRAL SAND & GRAVEL has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $948 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.
$17K
proposed penalties
$17K
current assessed
$16K
paid to date
$948
outstanding
94 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $1K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-24.
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.
22.1%
significant & substantial
26.3%
high negligence or reckless
22.1%
reasonably likely or greater
33.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 11.6% low, 62.1% moderate, 26.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
LAKE 2004-95M Dismissal Lesnick 2004 $1K → $1K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2025-06-25
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
12
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg8
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (12)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-06-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2025-06-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2021-12-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-12-14 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.42 Truck Driver
2019-10-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 Washer Operator
2019-10-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-10-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-10-28 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 Supervisor, Co. Official
2015-10-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-11-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-11-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2001-10-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.54 0.73 0.74 Front-end Loader 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. Ernest Gregory Corp 1981 to 1996
  2. South Central Sand & Gravel 1996 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 6
2025 5
2024 4
2023 4
2022 3
2021 4
2020 3
2019 3
2018 2
2017 2
2016 3
2015 3
2014 3
2013 2
2012 2
2011 3
2010 3
2009 3
2008 3
2007 3
2006 3
2005 3
2004 2
2003 3
2002 2
2001 3
2000 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

SOUTH CENTRAL SAND & GRAVEL sits in Pike County, Ohio, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Pike County, Ohio · Population 27,080
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$49,552
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 2,630 1 0 380.2
2026 Q1 2,187 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 1,333 5 0 3750.9
2025 Q3 1,218 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,193 5 1 2280.0
2025 Q1 834 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,287 9 5 6993.0
2024 Q3 837 0 0 0.0
Show 97 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 748 6 2 8021.4
2024 Q1 832 1 0 1201.9
2023 Q4 744 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 676 2 1 2958.6
2023 Q2 665 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 397 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 417 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 456 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 593 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 453 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 605 3 1 4958.7
2021 Q3 618 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 458 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 413 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 453 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 456 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 399 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 222 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 498 1 0 2008.0
2019 Q3 777 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 808 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 532 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 524 1 0 1908.4
2018 Q3 1,060 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 537 1 0 1862.2
2018 Q1 532 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 516 5 0 9689.9
2017 Q3 385 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 290 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 277 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 280 7 3 25000.0
2016 Q3 470 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 546 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 351 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 333 3 0 9009.0
2015 Q3 595 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 546 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 317 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 584 3 1 5137.0
2014 Q3 536 1 0 1865.7
2014 Q2 362 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 323 3 1 9287.9
2013 Q4 287 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 286 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 295 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 333 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 335 4 1 11940.3
2012 Q3 515 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 525 4 1 7619.0
2012 Q1 525 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,186 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 775 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 567 2 0 3527.3
2010 Q4 710 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,347 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 838 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 747 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,061 2 0 1885.0
2009 Q3 1,245 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 715 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 724 1 0 1381.2
2008 Q4 548 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 635 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,080 2 1 1851.9
2008 Q1 882 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,112 1 0 899.3
2007 Q3 1,181 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,137 4 0 3518.0
2007 Q1 1,095 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,203 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,452 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,608 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 832 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 939 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,208 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,310 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 820 2 0 2439.0
2004 Q4 763 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 963 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 825 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 620 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 700 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 770 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,332 8 1 6006.0
2003 Q1 1,342 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,064 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 771 1 0 1297.0
2002 Q2 958 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 523 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 851 2 0 2350.2
2001 Q3 1,219 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 2,345 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 1,961 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 2,228 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,560 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 2,591 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,048 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.