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Kosse Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Coyote Rock, LLC · Surface

Controlled by Iron Oak Energy Solutions LLC

Kosse, Limestone County, TX · Intermittent

MSHA Mine ID: 4104312

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 5
Years on record: 2007–2018
Latest incident: Oct 2018

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2002

211

citations

significant & substantial

$111,458

proposed penalties

$95,454

paid to date

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA

Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	S&S	Per 1M hrs
2019 Q3	571	2	0	3502.6
2019 Q2	515	0	0	0.0
2019 Q1	21,401	5	0	233.6
2018 Q4	21,899	2	2	91.3
2018 Q3	504	0	0	0.0
2018 Q2	18,197	14	5	769.4
2018 Q1	18,983	11	5	579.5
2017 Q4	1,620	16	7	9876.5

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2018 · 1 incident

October 3, 2018 TX · Metal/Non-Metal dryer operator, kiln operator, dry plant operator, fluid operator, bed dryer operator MACHINERY

Superior Silica Sands, LLC · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Employee removed small access cover top a cyclone (auger). The employee was going to attempt to remove sand. When the employee gained entry, they inserted the middle finger and the index finger of the left hand. There was no sand in the cyclone causing their finger to come in contact with the auger.

2017 · 1 incident

May 6, 2017 TX · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Superior Silica Sands, LLC · Struck by falling object

Employee was placing a counterweight object on a water hose to prevent the hose from "wiping". EE's gloves were wet and EE dropped the object on EE's right hand.

2012 · 1 incident

May 18, 2012 TX · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec OTHER

Superior Silica Sands, LLC · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

A Customer came on site and was waiting to get loaded and started having chest pains pulled over to the office where we believed he was having a heart attack and got him stable and called 911 where E.M.S was sent and took him the Hospital.

2010 · 1 incident

March 20, 2010 TX · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Superior Silica Sands, LLC · Fall down stairs

Employee exiting "change house" missed the bottom stair step, his ankle rolled under him and he broke his right fibula.

2007 · 1 incident

August 20, 2007 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Texas Sports Sands, Inc. · Struck against stationary object

Miner was trying to clear a clod from front of hopper, when his hand slipped off of prybar and cut his forearm on a piece of angle-iron where he was working. The angle-iron is part of the guard on the conveyor.