Appalachian Sand & Gravel: 15 MSHA citations
Metal/Non-Metal
Appalachian Sand & Gravel has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $266 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 3
- Years on record
- 2022
- Latest incident
- Dec 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2022
4
significant & substantial
$2,425
proposed penalties
89% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $266 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2021
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 180 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Appalachian Sand & Gravel has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $266 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
15 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-05-10.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
26.7%
significant & substantial
6.7%
high negligence or reckless
26.7%
reasonably likely or greater
13.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 33.3% low, 60.0% moderate, 6.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
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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)
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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: 2022-01-04, 4 years ago
Most sampled contaminants
- Respirable dust, <.1mg3
- Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
- Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (5)
| Date |
Contaminant |
Concentration |
Limit |
Conc / limit |
Occupation |
| 2022-01-04 |
Respirable dust, <.1mg |
0 |
|
|
Truck Driver |
| 2022-01-04 |
Respirable dust, <.1mg |
0 |
|
|
Bulldozer Operator |
| 2022-01-04 |
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz |
0.29 |
|
|
Bulldozer Operator |
| 2022-01-04 |
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz |
0.28 |
|
|
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator |
| 2022-01-04 |
Respirable dust, <.1mg |
0 |
|
|
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.
Appalachian Sand & Gravel recorded 1.18 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2022.
Injury rate, 2022
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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.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.78 and the all-US-mining average was 2.12 cases per 100 workers.
In Ohio, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.26 cases per 100 workers that year.
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.
Workforce and production
| Year |
Employees |
| 2023 |
17 |
| 2022 |
72 |
| 2021 |
5 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Appalachian Sand & Gravel sits in Washington County, Ohio, where the Census mining category is 1.3% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.
Washington County, Ohio · Population 59,318
1.3%
Mining share of county employment
$61,355
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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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 |
| 2023 Q1 |
20,254 |
1 |
0 |
49.4 |
| 2022 Q4 |
62,824 |
3 |
1 |
47.8 |
| 2022 Q3 |
52,633 |
1 |
0 |
19.0 |
| 2022 Q2 |
29,415 |
2 |
1 |
68.0 |
| 2022 Q1 |
24,984 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2021 Q4 |
2,744 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
3 on file
2022 · 3 incidents
December 16, 2022
OH · Metal/Non-Metal
maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Turner Mining Group · Fall from machine
Employee was working off back of truck, sidestepped causing EE to fall off onto the ground. EE stated: then felt pain in the left shoulder.
June 7, 2022
OH · Metal/Non-Metal
barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand
MACHINERY
Turner Mining Group · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employees were mixing flocc using a cordless drill. They believed the drill had failed and removed it with a mixing attachment from the mixing tote. Injured employee was cleaning the attachment and the other employee bumped the trigger causing the other employee's finger to come in contact with the attachment. The injured employee received 4 stitches to the left middle finger.
January 6, 2022
OH · Metal/Non-Metal
laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Appalachian Real Estate LLC · Fall onto or against objects
While checking fuel in a light plant the employee slipped in the snow and fell onto the tongue of the light plant. The employee was complaining of pain in EE's ribs and was seen by a physician. X-rays were taken the following day and it was determined that the employee had 3 fractured ribs.