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Wills Point Plant 1213: 107 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Arcosa, Inc
Wills Point, Kaufman County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104113

Wills Point Plant 1213 has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
12
Years on record
2000–2018
Latest incident
Sep 2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
107
citations
29
significant & substantial
$27,327
proposed penalties
$16,194
paid to date
59% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $11,133 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Arcosa Aggregates, Inc.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
51
inspections on record
622
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: 622 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Wills Point Plant 1213 has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$27K
proposed penalties
$16K
current assessed
$16K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
106 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $12K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2018-05-21.
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.
27.4%
significant & substantial
9.4%
high negligence or reckless
26.4%
reasonably likely or greater
54.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 18.9% low, 71.7% moderate, 9.4% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
91%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$12K proposed, $1K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2008-08-19.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
CENT 2009-188M Settlement Lesnick 2010 $12K → $1K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2013-07-31, 13 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
17
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg13
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (17)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2013-07-31 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2013-07-31 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 1.44 0.10 Utility Man
2013-07-31 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-12-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-12-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-12-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2011-12-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2011-12-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2009-04-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2009-04-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2003-09-04 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.12 Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-09-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2003-09-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2003-09-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2001-11-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2001-11-07 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Backhoe Operator
2001-11-07 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.2 Utility Man
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.

Wills Point Plant 1213 recorded 5.99 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2018.

Injury rate, 2018
ⓘ 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.
5.99
total case rate
5.99
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.95 and the all-US-mining average was 2.33 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.77 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
2018 * 5.99 5.99 0.000
2017 * 4.99 0.00 0.000
2016 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2015 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2014 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2012 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2011 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2010 * 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. Armor Materials 1999 to 2007
  2. Armor Aggregates Ltd 2007 to 2008
  3. Arcosa Aggregates, Inc. 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2020 2
2019 7
2018 18
2017 15
2016 13
2015 12
2014 9
2013 6
2012 14
2011 12
2010 14
2009 15
2008 16
2007 19
2006 21
2005 20
2004 19
2003 18
2002 18
2001 17
2000 15
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Wills Point Plant 1213 sits in Kaufman County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.6% 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.
Kaufman County, Texas · Population 160,718
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$88,606
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
2020 Q3 121 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 281 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 201 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 16 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 700 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 5,447 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 7,093 0 0 0.0
Show 75 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2018 Q3 6,840 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 8,871 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 10,606 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 9,348 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 10,423 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 10,283 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 9,990 1 0 100.1
2016 Q4 9,490 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 9,856 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 8,472 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 8,265 1 0 121.0
2015 Q4 7,574 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 6,700 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 7,158 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 8,165 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 7,056 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 5,915 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 5,489 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 2,491 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 5,595 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 6,545 1 0 152.8
2013 Q2 740 1 0 1351.4
2013 Q1 1,061 2 0 1885.0
2012 Q4 7,137 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 10,108 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 8,634 1 1 115.8
2012 Q1 7,262 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 7,184 1 0 139.2
2011 Q3 6,481 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 7,909 2 0 252.9
2011 Q1 8,438 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 9,957 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 9,187 1 0 108.8
2010 Q2 10,436 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 8,377 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 7,002 3 0 428.4
2009 Q3 9,335 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 8,078 2 1 247.6
2009 Q1 8,623 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 11,095 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 12,416 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 11,652 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 13,564 3 2 221.2
2007 Q4 14,782 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 12,331 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 12,123 1 0 82.5
2007 Q1 17,306 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 18,153 5 1 275.4
2006 Q3 18,694 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 18,658 6 0 321.6
2006 Q1 18,364 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 17,745 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 19,721 1 0 50.7
2005 Q2 19,413 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 20,114 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 14,793 1 0 67.6
2004 Q3 13,247 1 0 75.5
2004 Q2 16,915 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 15,565 6 2 385.5
2003 Q4 14,123 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 14,743 4 2 271.3
2003 Q2 12,344 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 13,597 1 0 73.5
2002 Q4 12,584 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 11,232 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 13,550 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 12,050 10 1 829.9
2001 Q4 8,769 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 9,393 22 12 2342.2
2001 Q2 9,225 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 9,830 1 0 101.7
2000 Q4 11,861 11 4 927.4
2000 Q3 13,827 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 8,454 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 7,782 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

12 on file

2018 · 1 incident

September 20, 2018 TX · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Arcosa Aggregates, Inc. · Fall from machine

Employee was stepping out of the equipment when EE's left foot slipped from the step causing EE to fall to the ground. Employee felt pain in the shoulder area.

2017 · 1 incident

June 10, 2017 TX · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Arcosa Aggregates, Inc. · Fall from machine

Employee was attempting to enter the D7 dozer in the pit. As the operator reached for the top hand rail, slipped and fell backwards, landing on the ground. Employee suffered small contusions on back and right arm. Doctors put employee on restrictive duty.

2008 · 2 incidents

October 22, 2008 TX · Metal/Non-Metal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Arcosa Aggregates, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee walking to get into service truck, stepped into a low uneven ground area, felt pain in R knee. Employee was able to grab hold of service truck door to keep from falling.

January 17, 2008 TX · Metal/Non-Metal pumper HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Armor Aggregates Ltd · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee pulled on a rubber soap hose and it struck him in his left eye. Causing pain and redness, he was seen by doctor and released to regular duty, with a follow-up appointment on the 1-28-08.

2006 · 3 incidents

June 16, 2006 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Armor Materials · Struck by falling object

Employee was working by crusher & a large rock fell and hurt his right ankle.

May 30, 2006 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Armor Materials · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was working with a sledgehammer in maintance area and smashed his finger.

March 6, 2006 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Armor Materials · Contact with hot objects or substances

EE was using a cutting torch. EE was wearing safety glasses and a piece of hot metal flew into his eye.

2005 · 1 incident

2004 · 1 incident

July 12, 2004 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Armor Materials · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS GREASING THE ROLL CRUSHER & HIGH PRESSURE FROM THE PNEUMATIC GREASE GUN INJECTED GREASE INTO HIS FINGER.

2001 · 2 incidents

September 27, 2001 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Armor Materials · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A PIN IN WITH A HAMMER THE PIN CHIPPED OFF AND FLEW INTO THE EMPLOYEE'S (L)EYE. DAMAGE OR INPAIRMENT IS UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME.

2000 · 1 incident

October 2, 2000 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Armor Materials · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS HOLDING A WRENCH WHEN HE WAS HIT ON THE FINGER BY A HAMMER HELD BY ANOTHER EE, THE PLANTMANAGER AT THE TIME