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Hanson Aggregates West Inc: 2 recorded fatalities operator

Controlled by Hanson PLC
MSHA operator ID: L16203

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Fatalities
2
Total incidents
809
Mines on record
29
Years on record
1983–2005
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
630
citations
130
significant & substantial
$253,245
proposed penalties
$147,134
paid to date
58% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $106,111 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
286
inspections on record
4,604
inspection hours
13.7
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.
630 citations across 4,604 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
ⓘ Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$253K
proposed penalties
$147K
current assessed
$147K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
616 assessments are final orders; 20 contested dockets.
Of $178K in penalties contested before the Commission, $67K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-02-14.
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.
20.8%
significant & substantial
7.7%
high negligence or reckless
22.3%
reasonably likely or greater
59.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 15.5% low, 76.8% moderate, 7.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2006
ⓘ 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 3.41 and the all-US-mining average was 3.91 cases per 100 workers.
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
2006 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2005 5.26 5.26 0.000
2004 4.61 1.73 0.000
2003 3.80 2.09 0.190
2002 4.11 1.58 0.000
2001 4.48 2.24 0.000
2000 3.54 2.00 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.
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: 2005-05-17, 21 years ago
6%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
101
samples
47
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz323 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg44
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz10
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz6
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.
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.
4 citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
  • Settled 4 · 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 4 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
59%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$134K proposed, $55K 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 2005-03-10. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.
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 operator contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
CENT 2005-125M Settlement Zielinski 2006 $134K → $55K
CENT20010189M Settlement Feldman 2001 $20K → $810
CENT20020256M Settlement Schroeder 2003 $4K → $3K
CENT20000438M Settlement Hodgdon 2001 $4K → $700
CENT20000262M Withdrawal Hodgdon 2001 $3K → $2K
CENT20000273M Settlement Feldman 2001 $2K → $2K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2005
3
2004
12
2003
27 (1f)
2002
28
2001
34
2000
31
1999
26
1998
25
1997
31
1996
37 (1f)
1995
48
1994
42
1993
44
1992
47
1991
51
1990
53
1989
57
1988
45
1987
67
1986
26
1985
28
1984
25
1983
22

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

2 recorded
August 21, 2003 AR · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner Fatality · MACHINERY
Hanson Aggregates West Inc · Struck by falling object

THEY WERE ATTEMPTING TO LOAD CONVEYOR SHUTTLE, LOAD WAS SUSPENDED IN AIR SO TRUCK COULD BACK UNDER IT. CRANE STARTED SWINGING AND TILTING ALLOWING LOAD TO FALL. LOAD STRUCK EMPLOYEE.

October 4, 1996 TX · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Hanson Aggregates West Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

APPARANTLY EE WAS CROSSING BETWEEN 2 RAILCAR AND ACCIDENTLLY SLIPPED AND FELL UNDER WHEEL.

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Where Hanson Aggregates West Inc stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample, score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.

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