Z&T Ranch Sand Plant has $66K in proposed MSHA penalties and $321 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2020–2025
Latest incident
Oct 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
174
citations
32
significant & substantial
$65,596
proposed penalties
$65,275
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $321 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: 731 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Z&T Ranch Sand Plant has $66K in proposed MSHA penalties and $321 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.
$66K
proposed penalties
$66K
current assessed
$65K
paid to date
$321
outstanding
173 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-19.
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.
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: 2022-05-10, 4 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz7
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (8)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2022-05-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.64
1.12
0.57
Utility Man
2022-05-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.45
Cleanup Man
2022-05-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.46
Kiln/Dryer Operator
2022-05-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.29
Utility Man
2021-08-11
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.58
1.45
0.40
Utility Man
2021-08-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2021-08-11
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.57
1.49
0.38
Kiln/Dryer Operator
2021-08-11
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.45
1.3
0.35
Dump 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.
Z&T Ranch Sand Plant recorded 1.17 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.
1.17
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 Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.17 cases per 100 workers that year.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2025
1.17
0.00
0.000
2024
1.32
0.00
0.000
2023
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022
2.78
0.00
0.000
2021 *
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
67
2025
70
2024
56
2023
66
2022
57
2021
34
2020
22
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Z&T Ranch Sand Plant sits in Loving County, Texas, 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.
Loving County, Texas · Population 54
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$51,087
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
EE was cutting water line hose at wet plant with a utility knife. EE was holding hose up while cutting towards themselves. EE hand slipped at cut their arm. EE was taken to medical facility where they received 4 stitches on left forearm. EE was discharged and returned to work with no restrictions.
2024 · 2 incidents
September 7, 2024TX · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorOTHER
Independence TX LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
EE was exiting out of a Front End Loader when the door sustained a wind gust shutting the door on the EE left hand between door and frame. EE was sent to hospital that resulted in fractured thumb (XR Finger(1st Digit)2+Left) on left hand due to crush injury. Return to work at full duty.
April 8, 2024TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerOTHER
Employee was closing a conex door when a gust of wind blew, causing the door to strike EE's ankle and knock EE down. This resulted in fractures to the top of EE's left foot.
2022 · 2 incidents
August 3, 2022TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EE was opening and closing the 18 wheeler trailer hatches on the Chaulk Mountain Truck Yard and indicated EE pulled a muscle when EE slipped or stepped onto the top of the trailer. The weather was clear. There were no witnesses to this incident. There were no visible signs of injury. The only logical conclusion was a mis-step by EE caused the incident.
April 1, 2022TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
On 4/1/222 @ 12:45 pm an EE and IE were tightening bolts on the bottom of the bag house on Dryer 2 when the back up wrench slipped out of other EE's hand striking IE in IE's right eye
2020 · 1 incident
December 14, 2020TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee was climbing down a ladder from screen deck. When EE reached the bottom of the ladder, EE stepped on soft dirt and twisted ankle. Employee was taken to the hospital due to discomfort in EE's left ankle. X-rays were taken and results show fracture of lateral malleolus of left ankle. Employee will not have any loss of work days.