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U S Aggregate Inc: 4 recorded fatalities controller

MSHA controller ID: M10624

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Fatalities
4
Total incidents
218
Mines on record
35
Years on record
1985–2002
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
352
citations
93
significant & substantial
$54,710
proposed penalties
$51,276
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,434 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
174
inspections on record
2,695
inspection hours
13.1
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.
352 citations across 2,695 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.
$55K
proposed penalties
$54K
current assessed
$51K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
352 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-06-11.
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.
26.4%
significant & substantial
1.7%
high negligence or reckless
26.1%
reasonably likely or greater
71.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 8.8% low, 89.5% moderate, 1.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2002
ⓘ 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.
1.64
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.17 and the all-US-mining average was 5.05 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2002 1.64 0.00 0.000
2001 2.91 1.56 0.000
2000 5.23 2.44 0.000
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: 2002-03-14, 24 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
24
samples
14
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz14
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg8
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2

Area samples (mill and shop air)

Last sampled: 2001-09-19, 24 years ago
1
samples
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.
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 controller contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST20010323M Settlement Zielinski 2001 $4K → $3K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

Top causes

Incident timeline

2002
3
2001
14 (1f)
2000
31
1999
28 (2f)
1998
25
1997
29
1996
13
1995
15 (1f)
1994
11
1993
11
1992
9
1991
1
1990
6
1989
6
1988
6
1987
1
1986
6
1985
3

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

4 recorded
April 16, 2001 AL · Metal/Non-Metal truck driver Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
SRM Aggregates, Inc. · Fall from machine

DRIVER CLIMBED ON BACK TIRE OF TRUCK TO FINISH TARPING HIS LOAD AND SLIPPED & FELL OFF TRUCK HITTING HIS HEAD

January 13, 1999 UT · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Cox Rock Products, Inc. · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

THE EE WAS FOUND APPARENTLY CLEANING OUT TRAILER. HE WAS UNCONSCIOUS AND HIS COAT WAS CAUGHT IN THE GATES.

March 14, 1995 AL · Metal/Non-Metal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Hanson Aggregates Southeast Inc · Struck against a moving object

THE TRUCK WAS OBSERVED STARTING DOWN THE RAMP INTO THE QUARRY. IT APPEARED TO BE GOING FASTER THAN TRUCKS USUALLY TRAVEL DOWN THE RAMP. THE TRUCK TRAVELED ABOUT 300 FEET TO THE FIRST CURVE WHE RE IT OVERTURNED. THE DRIVER WAS NOT WEARING THESEATBELT.

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Where U S Aggregate 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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