Mining Incidents

Thompson's Sand Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Danville, Pittsylvania County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4402409

Thompson's Sand Plant has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

Watch this mine

Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at Thompson's Sand Plant.

Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1988
Latest incident
Dec 1988
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
21
citations
5
significant & substantial
$1,514
proposed penalties
$1,514
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
20
inspections on record
231
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: 231 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Thompson's Sand Plant has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-11-01.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2007 Q4 84 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 107 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 639 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 884 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 648 1 0 1543.2
2006 Q3 1,001 2 0 1998.0
2006 Q2 1,132 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 533 1 0 1876.2
Show 22 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2005 Q4 776 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,126 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,194 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,259 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,050 5 2 4761.9
2004 Q3 1,164 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,371 4 1 2917.6
2004 Q1 983 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 609 3 1 4926.1
2003 Q3 1,134 2 1 1763.7
2003 Q2 939 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 233 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 497 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,389 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,079 1 0 926.8
2001 Q4 950 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,161 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,111 2 0 1800.2
2001 Q1 385 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 267 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,194 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1988 · 1 incident

December 5, 1988 VA · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger HANDLING OF MATERIALS
South Central Sand Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE IN SCREENING PROCESS FOR SAND, HE PLACED HAND IN PILE OF SAND AND SATURES TO THE TIP OF FINGER.

For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants

The full compliance file on Thompson's Sand Plant

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.