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: 630 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Alby Quarry has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 0 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
90 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-12-06.
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.
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: 2011-11-02, 14 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
21
samples
21
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz12
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz8
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (21)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2011-11-02
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
4.1
10
0.41
Truck Driver
2011-11-02
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
6.63
10
0.66
Crusher Oper/Worker
2008-07-01
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.89
10
0.09
Front-end Loader Operator
2008-07-01
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.6
2.36
0.25
Crusher Oper/Worker
2008-07-01
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
1.19
10
0.12
Truck Driver
2008-07-01
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
3.53
10
0.35
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2007-07-18
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
1.14
10
0.11
Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-07-18
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.75
10
0.08
Truck Driver
2005-01-26
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.23
10
0.02
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-01-26
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.16
10
0.02
Drill Operator, Rotary
2005-01-26
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.56
10
0.06
Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-01-26
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.22
10
0.02
Truck Driver
2005-01-26
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.55
10
0.06
Truck Driver
2003-11-13
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
3.02
10
0.30
Front-end Loader Operator
2003-11-13
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
5.96
10
0.60
Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-11-13
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
8.51
10
0.85
Truck Driver
2000-10-03
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
2.65
10
0.27
Front-end Loader Operator
2000-10-03
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
2.53
10
0.25
Truck Driver
2000-10-03
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
3.25
10
0.33
Front-end Loader Operator
2000-10-03
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
3.18
10
0.32
Truck Driver
2000-10-03
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.78
10
0.08
Truck Driver
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.
Alby Quarry 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
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
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 Illinois, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.60 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 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2006 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2005 *
0.00
0.00
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
2012
6
2011
6
2010
6
2009
12
2008
12
2007
13
2006
14
2005
14
2004
14
2003
16
2002
17
2001
16
2000
15
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Alby Quarry sits in Madison County, Illinois, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Madison County, Illinois · Population 264,631
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$74,800
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
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2012 Q3
2,170
8
5
3686.6
2012 Q2
3,300
0
0
0.0
2012 Q1
2,960
0
0
0.0
2011 Q4
2,422
2
0
825.8
2011 Q3
5,037
1
0
198.5
2011 Q2
2,688
7
0
2604.2
2011 Q1
2,068
0
0
0.0
2010 Q4
1,653
0
0
0.0
Show 43 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2010 Q3
1,328
0
0
0.0
2010 Q2
2,852
0
0
0.0
2010 Q1
3,876
6
2
1548.0
2009 Q4
4,669
0
0
0.0
2009 Q3
6,080
4
2
657.9
2009 Q2
5,723
0
0
0.0
2009 Q1
4,696
3
1
638.8
2008 Q4
5,741
0
0
0.0
2008 Q3
5,544
4
0
721.5
2008 Q2
5,765
0
0
0.0
2008 Q1
5,031
5
2
993.8
2007 Q4
5,748
0
0
0.0
2007 Q3
6,482
0
0
0.0
2007 Q2
6,575
0
0
0.0
2007 Q1
5,458
0
0
0.0
2006 Q4
5,607
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
6,491
2
0
308.1
2006 Q2
6,976
0
0
0.0
2006 Q1
6,963
2
1
287.2
2005 Q4
7,805
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
8,594
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
7,858
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
7,111
7
2
984.4
2004 Q4
8,090
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
7,609
1
1
131.4
2004 Q2
7,957
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
7,482
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
9,545
1
0
104.8
2003 Q3
8,171
5
0
611.9
2003 Q2
9,759
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
9,134
2
0
219.0
2002 Q4
10,741
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
11,152
5
1
448.4
2002 Q2
9,870
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
5,568
3
0
538.8
2001 Q4
11,718
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
11,103
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
7,658
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
8,175
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
6,958
14
3
2012.1
2000 Q3
9,174
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
8,776
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
7,794
2
0
256.6
Fatalities at this mine
1 recorded
May 23, 1994IL · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanFatality · EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
EE DOES THE WELDING ON EQUIPMENT. THIS CAUSED A LUMP IN RIGHT THUMB, THIS LUMP CAME BY USING WELDING STINGER DAY AFTER DAY AS NEEDED. SO THIS DEVELOPED OVER A PERIOD OF TIME.
1996 · 2 incidents
July 18, 1996IL · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Alby Quarry · Fall to the walkway or working surface
WHILE WALKING TO PICKUP TRUCK AT END OF SHIFT, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON A PIECE OF ICE AND FELL ON BOTH HANDS FRACTURING THE BONE IN HIS RIGHT ARM. EMPLOYEE RECEIVED MEDICAL TREATMENT AT THE CARLIN VILLE, ILLINOIS HOSPITAL. A CAST WAS INSTALLED ON THE RIGHT ARM.
1994 · 3 incidents
September 16, 1994IL · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Alby Quarry · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
PUT GUARD BACK ON LOADER . PUT ON BOLT IN AND WENT TO PUT ANOTHER BOLT IN AND FIRST ONE SLIPPED OUT. GUARD CAME DOWN AND GOT HIS FINGER STUCK BETWEEN GUARD AND COUNTERWEIGHT. CUT THROUGH SKIN AND BROKE BONE PINKY OF RT HAND.
WHILE DRIVING EUCLID TRUCK DOWN INTO QUARRY TRUCK HIT RUT IN ROAD CAUSING STEERING WHEEL TO JUMP HITTING INJURED'S LEFT HAND. SUICIDE KNOB ON STEERING HWEEL HIT HIS HAND.
March 2, 1994IL · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanPOWERED HAULAGE
STEPPING OUT OF CAB OF TRUCK ONTO TRUCK STEPS, RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING WEIGHT TO LEFT KNEE, CAUSING STRAIN. CONDITION OF QUARRY WAS WET.
1993 · 3 incidents
June 11, 1993IL · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Alby Quarry · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms
REACHING FOR CHAIN, SLIPPED & FELL ABOUT 8', FALLING ON LEFT ARM, CUTTING ELBOW ON METAL.
June 8, 1993IL · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanMACHINERY
TRUCK WAS JACKED UP FIXING A FLAT FELL OFF JACK BED HIT HIM IN THE HEAD AND BACK.
June 20, 1991IL · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSTEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
April 9, 1991IL · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
Alby Quarry · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
OPERATOR ON THE BACK-HOE WAS LOWERING A. RANS. INTO A LOADER (644-B). THERE WERE 3 PEOPLE GUIDING THE TRANS. HOME-ONE UNDER AT THE SIDE-ONE AT RIGHT SIDE & EE ON TOP. WE WERE SLOWLY LOWERING T HE TRANS. IN WHEN EE SAID SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT THAT HE WAS CAUGHT. THEY YELLED AT OPERATOR TO RAISE BUCKET AND HE DID.
LOADED TRUCK,STARTED UP HILL,EUCLID JUMPED OUT OF GEAR,WENT BACK HIT BIG ROCKS THERE TO STOP THE UCLID,KNOCKED THEM OUT TURNED OVER AND IT BRUSED LEFT SHOULDER,BRUSED BODY UP .
DRIVER GOING DOWN TO BOTTOM OF PIT FORGOT TRUCK WAS LOADED ,NOT IN PROPER GEAR.TRUCK WENT TOO FAST AND TURNED OVER ON PASSENGER SIDE SLIDING 15' BECAUSE TURN IN ROAD.DRIVER EXAMINED EMERG RM.R ELEASED,GIVEN RX.
1988 · 1 incident
October 18, 1988IL · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)