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Big Spring Sands LLC: 1 open mine, 58 MSHA citations

Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.

Big Spring Sands LLC (MSHA operator ID 0188893) operates 1 open mine with 15 employees in Texas, mostly sand, common. Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued it 58 citations and orders with $167,029 in proposed penalties, and it reported no injury or illness cases. Data from MSHA, November 6, 2026.

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MSHA operator ID
0188893
Open mines
1
Employees at open mines
15
States
Texas
Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
58
Significant and substantial
16 (27.6%)
Closure orders
1
High negligence or reckless
4
Proposed penalties
$167,029
Amount paid so far
$78,675
Inspections
10
Inspector hours on site
74
Citations per inspection
5.80 (all mines 2.30)
Accident reports
0
Injury and illness cases
0
Fatalities
0
Latest MSHA record
May 22, 2026

Open mines of Big Spring Sands LLC

Ranked by citations since January 1, 2022.

MineOperatorCountyMain commodityEmployeesCitations since 2022
Big Spring PlantBig Spring Sands LLCHoward County, TXSand, common1558

Citations and injury cases by year

Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.

YearCitations and ordersSignificant and substantialProposed penaltiesInjury and illness cases
2024327$114,2630
2025136$44,7090
2026133$8,0570

Standards cited most at Big Spring Sands LLC

Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.

StandardWhat the part coversCitations
30 CFR 56.14100Surface metal and nonmetal mines6
30 CFR 56.14132Surface metal and nonmetal mines5
30 CFR 56.14107Surface metal and nonmetal mines5
30 CFR 56.12032Surface metal and nonmetal mines4
30 CFR 56.12004Surface metal and nonmetal mines4
30 CFR 56.20003Surface metal and nonmetal mines3
30 CFR 56.4201Surface metal and nonmetal mines3
30 CFR 56.20011Surface metal and nonmetal mines2
30 CFR 56.14112Surface metal and nonmetal mines2
30 CFR 56.9300Surface metal and nonmetal mines2
30 CFR 56.4104Surface metal and nonmetal mines2
30 CFR 56.9301Surface metal and nonmetal mines2
30 CFR 56.4230Surface metal and nonmetal mines1
30 CFR 56.16005Surface metal and nonmetal mines1
30 CFR 56.18002Surface metal and nonmetal mines1

US government work, public domain. Counts come from the MSHA files published on November 6, 2026. An open mine is one MSHA lists as Active, Intermittent, New Mine, Temporarily Idled or NonProducing; 13,673 were open that day. Citations, penalties, inspections and accident reports run from January 1, 2022. A citation is an inspector's allegation and an operator can contest it; the penalty is the amount MSHA first proposed, before any contest or settlement. An operator is the legal entity MSHA assesses, and a parent company is its controller. Mines run by sole proprietors or by individuals are counted in every total and are not named. This page uses MSHA data and is not endorsed or certified by MSHA. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.