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Ranger Portable Metal/Non-Metal

Capital Quarries Company, Inc. · Surface

Controlled by Michael K Farmer; Elliott (Bud) E Farmer

Augusta, St Charles County, MO · Active

MSHA Mine ID: 2300190

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 3
Years on record: 2002–2024
Latest incident: Mar 2024

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2001

124

citations

significant & substantial

$27,964

proposed penalties

$22,644

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	Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4	2,712	0	0.0
2025 Q3	3,578	0	0.0
2025 Q2	3,407	0	0.0
2025 Q1	2,661	0	0.0
2024 Q4	2,783	2	718.6
2024 Q3	3,418	0	0.0
2024 Q2	3,935	3	762.4
2024 Q1	2,145	1	466.2

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

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2024 · 1 incident

March 1, 2024 MO · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Mertens Quarry · Fall from machine

Exiting loader and fell off steps.

2007 · 1 incident

November 27, 2007 MO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Schiermeier Quarry Inc · Struck by falling object

Scraping build-up off collection hopper of 1" minus conveyor. Clod of dirt fell and hit above right knee.

2002 · 1 incident

July 9, 2002 MO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE

Schiermeier Quarry Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

WHILE CLEANING THE RETURN ROLLER ON CONVEYER, STUCK BAR UNDER BELT, CONVEYER WAS SHUT OFF BUT STILL ROLLING. BAR GOT STUCK UNDER BELT, PINCHED HIS HAND BETWEEN BAR AND CONVEYER BELT.