Mining Incidents

Westfield Road Pit: 24 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Tri-State Sand & Gravel, LLC · Surface
Controlled by Edward Kennon
Sibley, Webster County, LA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1601402

Westfield Road Pit has $4K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
24
citations
8
significant & substantial
$4,366
proposed penalties
$4,366
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
19
inspections on record
243
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: 243 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Westfield Road Pit has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
24 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-03-31.
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.
33.3%
significant & substantial
4.2%
high negligence or reckless
33.3%
reasonably likely or greater
54.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 4.2% none, 12.5% low, 79.2% moderate, 4.2% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

Westfield Road Pit recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2009.

Injury rate, 2009
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
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.82 and the all-US-mining average was 3.36 cases per 100 workers.
In Louisiana, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.55 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
2009 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2008 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2007 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2006 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2005 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 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. Tri-State Sand & Gravel, LLC 2002 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2010 8
2009 22
2008 20
2007 19
2006 18
2005 25
2004 15
2003 13
2002 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Westfield Road Pit sits in Webster Parish, Louisiana, where the Census mining category is 5.6% 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.
Webster Parish, Louisiana · Population 36,189
5.6%
Mining share of county employment
$37,396
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
2010 Q3 430 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 3,572 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 7,742 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 7,796 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 8,019 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 8,423 1 0 118.7
2008 Q4 8,443 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 7,280 0 0 0.0
Show 23 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q2 5,860 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 5,492 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 6,589 1 0 151.8
2007 Q3 6,906 2 1 289.6
2007 Q2 2,494 2 0 801.9
2007 Q1 10,145 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 8,966 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 9,377 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 9,218 5 3 542.4
2006 Q1 3,053 8 3 2620.4
2005 Q4 10,080 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 10,048 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 10,040 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 10,055 2 0 198.9
2004 Q4 9,182 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 6,852 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 9,595 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 8,621 2 0 232.0
2003 Q4 8,336 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 8,601 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 9,174 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 7,811 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 0 0 0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.