Mining Incidents

Woodford-VA Sand & Gravel: 24 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Chaney Enterprises LP
Port Royal, Caroline County, VA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4407368

Woodford-VA Sand & Gravel has $3K 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 2016
24
citations
1
significant & substantial
$3,118
proposed penalties
$3,118
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
23
inspections on record
644
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: 644 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Woodford-VA Sand & Gravel has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
24 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-05-14.
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.
4.2%
significant & substantial
12.5%
high negligence or reckless
4.2%
reasonably likely or greater
33.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 8.3% low, 79.2% moderate, 12.5% 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: 2026-05-27
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
26
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg23
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (26)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-05-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2026-05-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2026-05-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2025-08-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2025-08-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2025-08-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2025-08-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-09-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2023-09-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2023-09-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2023-09-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2023-09-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Scale Man
2022-06-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2022-06-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-06-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Hydrating Plant Operator
2022-06-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2022-06-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2021-06-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2021-06-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-06-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-06-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2016-12-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.7 0.19 Iron Worker
2016-12-14 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 Iron Worker
2016-12-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2016-12-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.44 0.74 0.59 Washer Operator
2016-12-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer 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.
Ownership history
  1. Chaney Enterprises LTD Partnership 2016 to 2024
  2. Sustainable Land Use, LLC 2024 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 2
2024 2
2023 1
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 7
2018 10
2017 8
2016 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Woodford-VA Sand & Gravel sits in Caroline County, Virginia, 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.
Caroline County, Virginia · Population 31,541
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$86,267
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
2026 Q2 342 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 535 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 585 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,183 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,085 1 0 921.7
2025 Q1 652 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 714 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 699 2 0 2861.2
Show 31 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 613 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 646 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 665 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 666 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 644 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 667 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 653 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,042 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 691 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,586 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,551 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,826 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 932 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,041 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,012 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 958 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 644 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 958 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 642 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 4,745 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 4,298 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 748 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 749 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 774 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 803 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 756 1 0 1322.8
2017 Q4 762 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 758 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,327 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,084 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,188 1 0 841.8

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.