Apex Limestone has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1999
Latest incident
Apr 1999
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
59
citations
22
significant & substantial
$8,225
proposed penalties
$8,225
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
19
inspections on record
309
inspection hours
n/a
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: 309 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Apex Limestone has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
59 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
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.
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: 2003-05-28, 23 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
10
samples
9
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz5
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (10)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2003-05-28
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.14
10
0.01
Front-end Loader Operator
2003-05-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.26
2.08
0.13
Bulldozer Operator
2003-05-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.13
1.07
0.12
Truck Driver
2003-05-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.19
1.41
0.13
Truck Driver
2003-05-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2000-08-22
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
4.38
10
0.44
Truck Driver
2000-08-22
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
4.22
10
0.42
Crusher Oper/Worker
2000-08-22
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
1.44
10
0.14
Truck Driver
2000-08-22
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
2.22
10
0.22
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2000-08-22
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.24
10
0.02
Jackhammer 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.
Apex Limestone recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2005.
Injury rate, 2005
ⓘ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 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.21 cases per 100 workers.
In Ohio, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.21 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
2005 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2004 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2003 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2000 *
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
4
2008
12
2006
0
2005
24
2004
10
2003
10
2002
10
2001
10
2000
10
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Apex Limestone sits in Jefferson County, Ohio, where the Census mining category is 1.2% 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.
Jefferson County, Ohio · Population 64,855
1.2%
Mining share of county employment
$56,983
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
173
0
0
0.0
2012 Q2
208
0
0
0.0
2011 Q4
210
0
0
0.0
2011 Q3
183
0
0
0.0
2011 Q2
173
0
0
0.0
2011 Q1
168
0
0
0.0
2010 Q4
168
0
0
0.0
2010 Q3
1,544
4
3
2590.7
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2010 Q2
160
0
0
0.0
2010 Q1
165
0
0
0.0
2009 Q4
140
0
0
0.0
2009 Q3
143
0
0
0.0
2009 Q2
100
0
0
0.0
2009 Q1
125
0
0
0.0
2008 Q4
130
0
0
0.0
2006 Q2
0
0
0
2006 Q1
0
0
0
2005 Q4
8,546
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
19,812
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
22,154
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
16,604
0
0
0.0
2004 Q4
7,180
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
7,380
1
0
135.5
2004 Q2
7,680
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
7,180
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
7,180
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
7,180
2
1
278.6
2003 Q2
7,080
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
7,080
10
4
1412.4
2002 Q1
7,080
1
0
141.2
2001 Q4
7,180
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
7,080
4
1
565.0
2001 Q2
7,180
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
7,180
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
7,080
8
6
1129.9
2000 Q2
7,080
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
7,280
10
1
1373.6
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
1999 · 1 incident
April 19, 1999OH · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Apex Energy Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING REPAIR WORK ON BELTLINE CONVEYOR ROLLER, TRYING TO POSITION IT UNDER THEBELT. THE ROLLER BEING BULKY AND HEAVY SLIPPED AWAY FROM THE FAR SIDE, KICKING HIS END UP AND PI NCHING HIS THUMB AGAINST THE FRAMEWORK. THUMB REQUIRED EIGHT STITCHES.