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: 926 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘA Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2012-03-20.
On record since 2012.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
Alfred Station has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 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.
$12K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$151
outstanding
75 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $1K in penalties contested before the Commission, $100 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-04.
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.
1citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
Settled
1 · 100%
0%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
93%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1K proposed, $100 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 2012-01-13.
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: 2026-03-25
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
20
samples
6
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz9
Respirable dust, <.1mg9
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (20)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2026-03-25
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2026-03-25
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2022-06-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2022-06-03
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.19
10
0.02
Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-06-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Shovel Operator
2022-06-03
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.24
Front-end Loader Operator
2022-06-03
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.13
Laborer, Bullgang
2018-05-23
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.24
Bulldozer Operator
2018-05-23
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.18
Crusher Oper/Worker
2018-05-23
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.38
Laborer, Bullgang
2014-07-22
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2014-07-22
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.25
0.5
0.50
Crusher Oper/Worker
2014-07-22
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2007-08-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
2007-08-15
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.19
0.56
0.34
Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-06-13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.2
1.46
0.14
Bulldozer Operator
2002-06-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2002-06-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2002-06-13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.12
0.44
0.27
Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-06-13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.22
0.45
0.49
Utility Man
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.
Alfred Station recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ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 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In New York, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.08 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
2025 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2017 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2016 *
8.44
0.00
0.000
2015 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2014 *
9.49
9.49
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
2026
10
2025
11
2024
8
2023
5
2022
10
2021
12
2020
10
2019
13
2018
11
2017
12
2016
10
2015
11
2014
11
2013
11
2012
12
2011
11
2010
10
2009
11
2008
11
2007
10
2006
10
2005
11
2004
10
2003
11
2002
11
2001
10
2000
0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Alfred Station sits in Allegany County, New York, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Allegany County, New York · Population 47,027
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$61,233
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
Employee was using a knife to cut a wire tie when the knife slipped and lacerated the muscle below the thumb on left hand. The employee received 5 sutures at a local care facility and returned to duty with no restrictions.
Emp was moving a concrete block onto flat bed of boom truck. Emp placed concrete on angle iron. When cable was released, concrete rocked back onto foot. Fracture to right foot.
2007 · 1 incident
February 13, 2007NY · Metal/Non-Metalcrane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, riggerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE WAS LIFTING A SECTION OF CUTTING EDGE INTO TRUCK & AGGRAVATED A PRE EXISTING INJURY TO HIS LOWER BACK
1986 · 1 incident
May 31, 1986NY · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON