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: 209 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
APPLETON QUARRY has $484 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.
$484
proposed penalties
$484
current assessed
$484
paid to date
$0
outstanding
6 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-03-22.
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: 2005-05-18, 21 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
10
samples
9
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz7
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (10)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2005-05-18
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.4
2.24
0.18
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2005-05-18
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
1.39
10
0.14
Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-05-18
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.18
1.85
0.10
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-05-18
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.26
10
0.03
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-05-18
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.24
10
0.02
Truck Driver
2003-04-02
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.75
10
0.08
Front-end Loader Operator
2003-04-02
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.31
10
0.03
Truck Driver
2003-04-02
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.66
10
0.07
Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-04-02
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2003-04-02
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.19
10
0.02
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.
APPLETON QUARRY recorded 9.62 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2006.
Injury rate, 2006
ⓘ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.
9.62
total case rate
9.62
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.41 and the all-US-mining average was 3.91 cases per 100 workers.
In Missouri, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.77 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.
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
2007
7
2006
7
2005
7
2004
6
2003
5
2002
5
2001
12
2000
7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
APPLETON QUARRY sits in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Cape Girardeau County, Missouri · Population 82,180
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$68,912
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
2007 Q4
3,955
0
0
0.0
2007 Q3
3,885
0
0
0.0
2007 Q2
4,577
0
0
0.0
2007 Q1
2,783
1
0
359.3
2006 Q4
5,130
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
4,475
1
0
223.5
2006 Q2
6,500
0
0
0.0
2006 Q1
4,693
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2005 Q4
4,420
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
4,888
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
4,628
2
0
432.2
2005 Q1
3,930
1
0
254.5
2004 Q4
3,935
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
3,535
0
0
0.0
2004 Q2
2,855
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
2,348
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
2,915
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
3,342
0
0
0.0
2003 Q2
4,413
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
2,535
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
2,262
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
3,777
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
4,630
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
5,042
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
3,280
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
3,573
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
4,390
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
3,341
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
2,788
1
1
358.7
2000 Q3
2,918
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
3,680
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
4,245
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
18 on file
2006 · 1 incident
January 23, 2006MO · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanMACHINERY
Employee was using a steam cleaner to clean power engine unit. When finished he was cleaning oil and grease off of his steel toed rubber boots. The high water pressure cut through the top of his left boot burning the top of his foot.
2001 · 1 incident
November 30, 2001MO · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE COUPLED AN AIR HOSE FROM THE SERVICE TRUCK INTO THE HAUL TRUCK TO PROVIDE AIR FOR THE STARTER.WHEN HE HAD THE TANK FULL, HE UNCOUPLED THE AIRHOSE AND AIR BLEW DEBRIS INTO HIS EYE.
EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PRY METAL APART, THAT HAD BEEN RIVETTED TOGETHER. EE WAS DRIVING A CHISEL BETWEEN THE TWO PIECES, FORCING THEM APART. EE STRUCK THE CHISEL WITH A HAMMER AND THE CHISEL FLE W BACK STRIKING EE. THE CHISEL CUT THE EE JUST ABOVE HIS SAFETY GLASSES. THE CUT WAS APPROX. 1" IN LENGTH AND REQUIRED 5 STITCHES.
1996 · 1 incident
February 6, 1996MO · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
THE EE WAS TRYING TO REMOVE A LADDER FROM FROZEN GROUND. WHEN THE STEEL LADDER BROKE FREE OF FROZEN GROUND THE LADDER SMASHED HIS RIGHT HAND AGAINST THE OUTRIGGING OF A CRANE.
1995 · 2 incidents
August 9, 1995MO · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
October 8, 1993MO · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE WAS TRYING TO CLEAN AN ABSTRUCTED BORE HOLE PRIOR TO LOADING WITH EXPLOSIVED. WHILE OPERATING INGERSOL RAND TRACK DRILL, DRILL STEEL CAME UNCOUPLED. STEEL COUPLING FLEW OFF OF DRILL HITTING HIM IN MOUTH. SHATTERED FRONT TOP TOOTH. CHIPPED BOTTOM TOOTH. LOOSENED OTHER FRONT TOOTH, LACERATED.
1991 · 4 incidents
October 10, 1991MO · Metal/Non-Metalcrane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, riggerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EMPL WAS PULLING PIECE OF CABLE WHICH WAS LAYING ON GROUND. CABLE WAS TWISTED AS EMPL PULLED ON CABLE IT UNTWISTED & CAME UP HITTING EMPL IN FACE & CUTTING EMPLS FINGERS.
August 20, 1991MO · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING A LITTLE PROTECTIVE PIPE COVER OFF OF A SHOCK CYLINDER ON THE REAR OF A HAUL TRUCK. TO GET TO THE PLACE HE WANTED TO GRIND, HE TURNED THE GRINDER UPSIDE DOWN. THE GRINDER CAUGTH ON SOMETHING AND KICKED BACK CUTTING THE EMPLOYEE ON THE WRIST.
June 5, 1991MO · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
ANOTHER EMPLOYE9 WAS JACKING THE SCALE FLOOR UP TO BE REPLACED AND HE WAS PRYING IT WITH A PIECE OF STEEL TO KEEP IN PLACE. THE JACK SLIPPED AND HIS FINGERS WERE CAUGHT BETWEEN THE FLOOR AND T HE SCALE FRAME 4HICH MASHED 2 FINGERS
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