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F.S. Lopke - Buck Plant Metal/Non-Metal

F.S. Lopke Contracting, Inc. · Surface

Controlled by Steven Gregg; Barbara A Lopke

Nichols, NY, Tioga County, NY · Intermittent

MSHA Mine ID: 3003822

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2024–2025
Latest incident: Apr 2025

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2012

citations

significant & substantial

$6,301

proposed penalties

$5,288

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	6,562	0	0.0
2025 Q3	6,989	0	0.0
2025 Q2	7,514	0	0.0
2025 Q1	865	0	0.0
2024 Q4	6,180	0	0.0
2024 Q3	10,322	7	678.2
2024 Q2	8,680	0	0.0
2024 Q1	2,280	0	0.0

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

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2025 · 1 incident

April 22, 2025 NY · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)

F.S. Lopke Contracting, Inc. · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Hearing test were conducted on 4/22/25. Hearing Test results received 4/29/25: Left ear has moderately severe hearing loss at some high frequencies. Required placement on MSHA log

2024 · 1 incident

July 10, 2024 NY · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE

F.S. Lopke Contracting, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

Loader operator was backing away from stockpile & was looking behind self and tire went in a rut and the way EE's body was turned & when EE hit the rut it tweaked EE's back.