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: 222 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Sunny Point has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
29 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-05.
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: 2026-05-06
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg6
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (7)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2026-05-06
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Supervisor, Co. Official
2026-05-06
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Washer Operator
2025-09-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Washer Operator
2025-09-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Kiln/Dryer Operator
2025-09-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2023-11-07
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.19
0.33
0.58
Laborer, Bullgang
2023-11-07
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
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.
Sunny Point recorded 1.35 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ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.
1.35
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Louisiana, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.98 cases per 100 workers that year.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2025
1.35
0.00
0.000
2024
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023
1.08
0.00
0.000
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
2026
73
2025
68
2024
85
2023
101
2022
33
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Sunny Point sits in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, where the Census mining category is 1.7% 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.
Caddo Parish, Louisiana · Population 232,973
1.7%
Mining share of county employment
$50,067
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
45,176
8
1
177.1
2026 Q1
32,874
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
31,085
3
0
96.5
2025 Q3
34,451
5
1
145.1
2025 Q2
39,612
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
42,909
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
41,177
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
38,925
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
45,191
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
43,681
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
44,003
7
4
159.1
2023 Q3
44,003
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
50,354
4
1
79.4
2023 Q1
46,466
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
11,562
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
3 on file
2026 · 1 incident
January 10, 2026LA · Metal/Non-Metalutility man, shift tech, service/dump truck operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
While monitoring a slurry tank pump due to abnormal noise and visible smoke, the employee was positioned in the area when material was unexpectedly expelled from the pump. The employee stepped backward and lost balance, resulting in contact with the ground. The employee reported an abrasion above the right eye and discomfort to the right hip.
2025 · 1 incident
November 14, 2025LA · Metal/Non-Metalbarge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck handMACHINERY