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Spring Plant: 14 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Spring, Montgomery County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4103060

Spring Plant has $929 in proposed MSHA penalties and $55 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
13
Years on record
1983–2004
Latest incident
Sep 2004
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
14
citations
1
significant & substantial
$929
proposed penalties
$874
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $55 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Hanson Aggregates LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
28
inspections on record
242
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: 242 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Spring Plant has $929 in proposed MSHA penalties and $55 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.
$929
proposed penalties
$929
current assessed
$874
paid to date
$55
outstanding
14 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-07-22.
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.
7.1%
significant & substantial
7.1%
high negligence or reckless
7.1%
reasonably likely or greater
50.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 92.9% moderate, 7.1% 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: 2009-01-14, 17 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg5
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (6)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2009-01-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-01-14 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 10 0.01 Dredge/Barge Operator
2001-01-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dredge/Barge Operator
2001-01-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2001-01-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2001-01-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
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.

Spring Plant recorded 0.00 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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below 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 Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.88 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 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2001 * 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.
Ownership history
  1. Welch & Welch Sand & Gravel Inc 1981 to 1985
  2. Pioneer Concrete Of Texas Inc 1985 to 1989
  3. Liberty Materials Inc 1989 to 2000
  4. Hanson Aggregates Central Inc 2000 to 2004
  5. Hanson Aggregates LLC 2004 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2009 4
2008 7
2007 7
2006 6
2005 7
2004 7
2003 9
2002 8
2001 8
2000 7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Spring Plant sits in Montgomery County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 3.8% 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.
Montgomery County, Texas · Population 654,722
3.8%
Mining share of county employment
$97,266
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
2009 Q4 1,419 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 2,111 1 0 473.7
2009 Q2 2,772 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 3,884 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 3,516 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 3,749 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 4,326 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 4,816 0 0 0.0
Show 32 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2007 Q4 3,931 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 3,592 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 2,852 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 4,288 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,831 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 3,829 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 3,349 1 0 298.6
2006 Q1 4,273 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 4,531 1 0 220.7
2005 Q3 4,217 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 4,432 1 0 225.6
2005 Q1 4,442 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 4,736 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 5,120 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 4,501 2 0 444.3
2004 Q1 4,980 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 5,628 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 5,401 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 5,753 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 5,227 1 0 191.3
2002 Q4 4,678 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 4,926 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 5,457 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 5,690 1 0 175.7
2001 Q4 5,155 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 6,243 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 6,223 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 5,934 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 5,397 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 5,102 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 2,989 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 3,391 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

13 on file

2004 · 1 incident

September 4, 2004 TX · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hanson Aggregates LLC · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The miner was traveling to the pontoon on a small outboard driven boat and he was trying to grab the tie off rope which was laying over the front of the boat. This is when his hand was pinched between the boat and the pontoon. The boat had been disengaged to nuetral but the miner was not paying attention to the boat drift, therefore the caught in between injury occured.

2000 · 1 incident

October 4, 2000 TX · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec MACHINERY
Hanson Aggregates Central Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS SANDBLASTING A CONVEYOR STRUCTURE. HE STOPPED MOMENTARILY TO PULL SLACK IN BLAST HOSE. WHILE PULLING SLACK IN HOSE, HE ACCIDENTALLY TURNED THE BLAST NOZZEL TOWARDS HIMSELF AND BRUSH BLA STED A SPOT IN HIS LEG.

1994 · 1 incident

June 20, 1994 TX · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand OTHER
Liberty Materials Inc · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

UNKNOWN AT PRESENT

1985 · 2 incidents

September 25, 1985 TX · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Pioneer Concrete Of Texas Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

PUTTING BELTS ON V PULLEY AND CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN BELT AND PULLEY WHILE ROLLING PULLEY

May 24, 1985 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Pioneer Concrete Of Texas Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

PUTTING V-BELT BACK ON PULLEY FINGER GOT CAUGHT & CUT TIP OF RING FINGER ON LEFT HAND

1983 · 8 incidents

August 25, 1983 TX · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand MACHINERY
Welch & Welch Sand & Gravel Inc · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

WE DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS UNTIL JAYS BROTHER AREPORTED TO WORK ON FRIDAY THE 26 AND JAY WAS IN THE HOSPITAL WITH POSSIBLE MONOXIDE POISONING FROM DREDGE MOTOR.

August 8, 1983 TX · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand OTHER
Welch & Welch Sand & Gravel Inc · Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

STRAIGHTENED UP FROM A SQUATTING POSITION AND HEARD A SERIES OF POPE IN KNEE. WOKE UP THE NEXT DAY AND COULD NOT STRAIGHTEN OR STAND ON KNEE.

April 24, 1983 TX · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Welch & Welch Sand & Gravel Inc · Struck against stationary object

CLEANING TRUCK RAISED UP AND HIT HEAD ON BRAKE CHAMBER OF TRUCK

April 23, 1983 TX · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Welch & Welch Sand & Gravel Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

WORKING ON RING GEAR ON MAINTAINER PULLED MUSCLES IN LEFT SHOULDER PUSHING RING GEAR UP INTO REAR END OF MAINTAINER

April 13, 1983 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Welch & Welch Sand & Gravel Inc · Struck by falling object

SETTING TRANSMISSION IN 980C LOADER CHAIN HOLDING TRANSMISSION BROKE MANUEL WAS TRYING TO WORK THE TRANSMISSION INTO POSITION HIS FINGER WAS BETWEEN THE TRANSMISSION A AND THE BODY FRAME OF TH E LOADER WHEN THE CHAIN BROKE LETTING THE TRANSMISSION MASH OFF HIS FINGER

April 13, 1983 TX · Metal/Non-Metal HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Welch & Welch Sand & Gravel Inc · Struck by falling object

NO ONE QUITE SURE SETTING TRANSMISSION IN 980C LOADER CHAIN HOLDING TRANSMISSION BROKE NOT SURE IF HE FELL HITTING HIS HEAD ON LOADER OR IF PIPE ETC HIT HIM IN BACK OF HEAD HAPPENED SO FAST

March 11, 1983 TX · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand MACHINERY
Welch & Welch Sand & Gravel Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGERS ON RIGHT HAND WERE MASHED WHEN HAND GOT CAUGHT IN WENCH CABLE