Spruce Pine Sand & Gravel has $1K 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
9
Years on record
1988–2001
Latest incident
May 2001
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
22
citations
8
significant & substantial
$1,484
proposed penalties
$1,484
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 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: 127 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Spruce Pine Sand & Gravel has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
22 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2002-06-04.
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.
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: 2002-10-10, 23 years ago
4
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz3
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2002-10-10
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.23
Truck Driver
2002-10-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2002-10-10
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.13
Backhoe Operator
2002-10-10
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.78
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2002
6
2001
7
2000
8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Spruce Pine Sand & Gravel sits in Franklin County, Alabama, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Franklin County, Alabama · Population 31,978
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$51,493
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
ACCIDENT REPORT 5/23/01. LOADER WAS PUSHING TRUCK IN LOOSE SAND & GRAVEL, BUCKET SLIPPED OFF AP RON ON BACK OF TRUCK STRIKING FRAME AND CAUSING SUDDEN MOVEMENT. OPERATOR'S HEAD HIT BACK OF GLA SS OF TRUCK.
1993 · 1 incident
March 2, 1993AL · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
LIFTING ELECTRIC MOTOR FROM TAILGATE OF PICKUP ONTO CONVEYOR FRAME. CONVEYOR WAS ON GROUND AT THIS TIME. STRAINED LIGAMENTS AND MUSCLE IN BACK. NO HOSPITALIZATION NEEDED, IS TO REST AND TAKE M USCLE RELAXERS.
June 9, 1988AL · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON