Mining Incidents

TEMPLE HALL SILICA: 34 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Eugene E Miller
Granbury, Hood County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104030

TEMPLE HALL SILICA has $6K 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
1
Years on record
2002
Latest incident
Aug 2002
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
34
citations
14
significant & substantial
$6,169
proposed penalties
$6,169
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
17
inspections on record
158
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: 158 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

TEMPLE HALL SILICA has $6K 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
34 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-09-15.
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.
41.2%
significant & substantial
20.6%
high negligence or reckless
38.2%
reasonably likely or greater
58.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 8.8% low, 70.6% moderate, 20.6% 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: 2002-04-18, 24 years ago
3
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2002-04-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-04-18 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.3 Backhoe Operator
2002-04-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
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.

TEMPLE HALL SILICA 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
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 * 7.31 0.00 0.000
2001 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2000 * 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. Temple Hall Silica Inc 1998 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2004 3
2003 11
2002 12
2001 11
2000 10
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

TEMPLE HALL SILICA sits in Hood County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 3.6% 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.
Hood County, Texas · Population 64,198
3.6%
Mining share of county employment
$86,802
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 1,658 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 3,952 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 5,994 2 1 333.7
2003 Q2 5,851 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 5,786 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 6,688 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 7,088 7 2 987.6
2002 Q2 7,518 4 1 532.1
Show 9 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q1 6,053 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 6,874 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 6,045 8 6 1323.4
2001 Q2 6,628 13 4 1961.4
2001 Q1 5,968 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 5,597 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 5,734 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 5,887 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 6,265 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2002 · 1 incident

August 3, 2002 TX · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Temple Hall Silica Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

AT THE END OF HIS SHIFT THE EE WAS COMFRONTED ABOUT HIS TERMINATION. AFTER LEAVING THE PREMISIS HE CALLED BACK & SAID HE HAD HURT HIS BACK HELPING UNLOAD CASES OF LUBRICANT FROM A TRAILER. HE SAID HE HAD TOLD THE WITNESS HE HAD HURT HIS BACK. THE WITNESS INDICATED THE STATEMENT WAS MADE IN A JOKING MANNER PRIOR TO PICKING UP THE FIRSTBOX BUT NO COMPLAINTS DURING OR AFTER LIFTING