United Sand & Gravel, LLC. has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $32 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2020–2023
Latest incident
Dec 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2020
25
citations
4
significant & substantial
$3,962
proposed penalties
$3,930
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $32 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: 211 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
United Sand & Gravel, LLC. has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $32 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$32
outstanding
25 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-06.
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: 2025-09-17
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
10
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg9
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (10)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-09-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2025-09-17
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.14
0.79
0.18
Truck Driver
2025-09-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2023-07-18
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2023-07-18
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2021-11-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2021-11-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2020-12-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Mechanic
2020-12-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2020-12-08
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.
United Sand & Gravel, LLC. recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2024.
Injury rate, 2024
ⓘ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 1.77 and the all-US-mining average was 2.08 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.49 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
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
6.96
6.96
0.000
2022 *
6.92
6.92
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
2
2025
6
2024
12
2023
12
2022
13
2021
9
2020
7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
United Sand & Gravel, LLC. sits in Fannin County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 1.6% 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.
Fannin County, Texas · Population 36,525
1.6%
Mining share of county employment
$68,377
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
Employee was standing on the step of a bulldozer inspecting for a suspected coolant leak. EE attempted to open the front hood. The weight surprised EE and EE lost their balance falling approximately 2ft backwards to the ground.
2022 · 1 incident
June 9, 2022TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
The incident occurred at a sand and gravel mine where the terrain is primarily loose sand. The employee states EE was walking down a slope to go restart the pump that feeds water to the wash plant. The pump sets near the water approximately 15ft below natural grade. As EE walked down the slope the sand shifted under EE's foot causing EE to stumble and "roll EE's ankle".
2020 · 1 incident
September 14, 2020TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
United Sand & Gravel · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
The employee was exiting a catwalk on the shaker screen. As EE descended ladder & self closing gate began closing. EE reached forward to slow gate with left hand and was thrown off balance causing EE to grab the gate. The force of EE's weight shifting caused gate to close quickly. The employees right thumb was between the hinge & side rail. EE's thumb was pinched.