Mining Incidents

Loyston Road Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Kevin L Gaerke
Maynardville, Union County, TN  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4003110

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2011
Latest incident
Jul 2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
132
citations
45
significant & substantial
$24,175
proposed penalties
$20,191
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
2025 Q4 6,546 1 0 152.8
2025 Q3 6,856 2 0 291.7
2025 Q2 5,829 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 6,807 3 1 440.7
2024 Q4 6,166 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 5,829 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 6,296 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 5,570 0 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

1 on file

2011 · 1 incident

July 12, 2011 TN · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Loyston Road Quarry, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Tue 7/12/11 EE was working with 2 other ee putting a top idler in about middle ways on jaw belt on the left side. While putting pressure on the idler to align the bolt holes the idler moved down & back smashing the tip of his right thumb between the idler conveyor frame. This cut the tip of it through the center of his nail & fractured the tip of the bone.