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Wooten Sand & Gravel, Inc.: 1 recorded fatality Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Jimmy Wooten
Fouke, Miller County, AR  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0301975

Wooten Sand & Gravel, Inc. has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $453 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2022
Latest incident
Aug 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
105
citations
33
significant & substantial
$27,142
proposed penalties
$26,689
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $453 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Wooten Sand & Gravel, Inc.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
46
inspections on record
969
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: 969 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Wooten Sand & Gravel, Inc. has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $453 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.
$27K
proposed penalties
$27K
current assessed
$27K
paid to date
$453
outstanding
104 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-19.
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.
31.7%
significant & substantial
5.8%
high negligence or reckless
31.7%
reasonably likely or greater
34.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 17.3% low, 76.9% moderate, 5.8% 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: 2024-11-20
14%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
35
samples
7
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz51 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg25
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz3
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (35)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2011-05-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.48 0.39 1.23 Utility Man
2024-11-20 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 0.41 10 0.04 Utility Man
2024-11-20 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 0.27 10 0.03 Truck Driver
2024-11-20 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 0 10 0.00 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-10-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-10-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2023-10-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2023-10-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-11-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-11-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2018-11-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2018-11-28 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-10-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 0.45 0.27 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-10-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2016-10-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2016-10-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2016-10-26 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.25 Truck Driver
2015-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2015-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2015-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2015-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-12-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2013-12-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2013-12-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-12-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2012-05-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-05-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2012-05-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2012-05-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2011-06-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2011-05-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2011-05-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2011-05-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 1.49 0.19 Utility Man
2009-06-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.43 0.49 Truck Driver
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.

Wooten Sand & Gravel, Inc. recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ 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 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Arkansas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.60 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
2025 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 5.76 5.76 5.760
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 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. Wooten Sand & Gravel, Inc. 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 13
2025 12
2024 10
2023 12
2022 13
2021 14
2020 14
2019 14
2018 15
2017 14
2016 14
2015 14
2014 14
2013 13
2012 11
2011 8
2010 7
2009 5
2008 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Wooten Sand & Gravel, Inc. sits in Miller County, Arkansas, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Miller County, Arkansas · Population 42,588
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$49,983
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 8,568 3 0 350.1
2026 Q1 7,482 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 8,503 2 0 235.2
2025 Q3 7,703 3 0 389.5
2025 Q2 7,480 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 7,132 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 6,628 2 0 301.8
2024 Q3 6,665 0 0 0.0
Show 62 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 6,632 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 6,077 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 7,694 2 0 259.9
2023 Q3 7,183 3 2 417.7
2023 Q2 7,949 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 8,166 1 0 122.5
2022 Q4 8,750 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 8,891 1 0 112.5
2022 Q2 8,878 4 1 450.6
2022 Q1 8,206 2 0 243.7
2021 Q4 8,744 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 9,181 3 2 326.8
2021 Q2 8,411 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 7,887 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 9,298 2 0 215.1
2020 Q3 9,292 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 9,774 1 1 102.3
2020 Q1 9,818 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 9,220 1 0 108.5
2019 Q3 9,805 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 9,377 1 0 106.6
2019 Q1 9,489 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 7,725 1 1 129.4
2018 Q3 9,941 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 9,773 2 0 204.6
2018 Q1 8,931 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 9,028 4 1 443.1
2017 Q3 9,909 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 9,516 2 0 210.2
2017 Q1 9,119 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 9,208 1 0 108.6
2016 Q3 10,883 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 8,638 2 1 231.5
2015 Q4 9,861 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 9,286 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 8,787 6 1 682.8
2015 Q1 6,856 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 9,403 3 0 319.0
2014 Q3 8,558 2 0 233.7
2014 Q2 8,538 1 0 117.1
2014 Q1 9,704 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 6,500 2 0 307.7
2013 Q3 8,441 3 2 355.4
2013 Q2 7,931 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 6,707 3 1 447.3
2012 Q4 6,811 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 7,433 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,257 2 1 1591.1
2012 Q1 5,950 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 5,549 3 1 540.6
2011 Q3 5,442 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,363 3 3 1269.6
2011 Q1 4,079 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 5,370 7 2 1303.5
2010 Q3 1,370 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 4,058 2 0 492.9
2010 Q1 2,962 3 3 1012.8
2009 Q4 817 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 3,226 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 856 16 9 18691.6
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 0 0 0

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
August 4, 2022 AR · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner Fatality · MACHINERY
Wooten Sand & Gravel, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was servicing a dozer alone with the machine running & it was somehow put in gear & started moving. Before the employee could get out of the way the machine trapped employee's foot & started pulling employee in between the track & the cab, which led to employee being run over by the machine. This is our best guess as there were no actual witnesses to the event.