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.
Rate withheld: 446 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Ajax Materials has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
ⓘDifferences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$14K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$14K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
54 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $5K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-11-09.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
5citations taken to the federal commission · 9% of citations on record
Settled
4 · 80%
Vacated or withdrawn
1 · 20%
80%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘCounts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 5 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
37%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$5K proposed, $3K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2010-07-16.
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 mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
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: 2010-05-27, 16 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
9
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg5
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz4
Show the individual readings (9)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2010-05-27
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
2010-05-27
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
2010-05-27
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2010-05-27
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.13
10
0.01
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-01-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2005-01-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-01-20
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.16
10
0.02
Truck Driver
2005-01-20
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.29
10
0.03
Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-01-20
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.22
10
0.02
Front-end Loader Operator
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.
Ajax Materials recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2009.
Injury rate, 2009
ⓘ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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.82 and the all-US-mining average was 3.36 cases per 100 workers.
In Florida, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.14 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2009 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2008 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2007 *
4.23
4.23
0.000
2006 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2005 *
9.00
9.00
0.000
2004 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2003 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2002 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2011
8
2010
9
2009
13
2008
17
2007
21
2006
22
2005
22
2004
19
2003
16
2002
17
2001
13
2000
14
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Ajax Materials sits in Sarasota County, Florida, where the Census mining category is 0.1% of county employment.
Local economic context
ⓘCounty figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Sarasota County, Florida · Population 449,011
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$80,633
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘCitations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Like usually I do, across the parking lot to go to next facility - trailer to pick up the daily inspections equipment reports. I fell and unfortunately my right ankle hit the cement curb-bumper at the parking lot.
2007 · 1 incident
April 12, 2007FL · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Worked all day on the caterpillar loader. Was going fast and bouncing all day. Went home not feeling good. 9/13/05 a.m. went to the chiropractor, no better. 9/14/05 a.m. went to the emergency room and was given medicine. He was diagnosed with a compressed disk under the right shoulder blade and told to rest.
January 28, 2005FL · Metal/Non-Metalcrane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, riggerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
WHILE DRIVING A TRUCK ON THE PROPERTY, THE TRUCK HIT SEVERAL BUMPS IN THE ROAD JOLTING THE EE, CAUSING PAIN TO HIS POSTERIOR REGION. EXAMINATION BY MEDICAL DR. DETERMINED A DOUBLE HERNIA, REQU IRING SURGERY.
April 7, 1997FL · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerPOWERED HAULAGE
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO SET SECOND OF 3 SAFETY LOCKING PINS TO LOCK DUMP BODY IN RAISED POSITION DUMP BODY OF END DUMP TRUCK MOVED DOWN CATCHING FIRST TWO FINGERS ON MECHANICS RT HAND AGAINST TRUC K FRAME BROKE FIRST FINGER BRUISED SECOND FINGERHOSPITAL SPLINTED FINGER & WRAPPED