Arkansas Aggregates has $79K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2014–2026
Latest incident
May 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
214
citations
45
significant & substantial
$78,856
proposed penalties
$76,834
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,022 gap.
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: 835 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: 2017-08-28.
On record since 2017.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
Arkansas Aggregates has $79K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$79K
proposed penalties
$77K
current assessed
$77K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
213 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $3K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-27.
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.
2citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
Settled
2 · 100%
100%
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 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
48%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$3K proposed, $1K 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 2012-11-20.
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: 2025-09-03
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
23
samples
7
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg15
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz5
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (23)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-09-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2025-09-03
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.13
Utility Man
2025-09-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2022-11-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
2022-11-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.62
0.69
0.90
Cleanup Man
2019-12-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2019-12-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2019-12-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2017-10-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2017-10-04
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.4
2.09
0.19
Utility Man
2017-10-04
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.27
1
0.27
Utility Man
2017-10-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2017-10-04
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.14
0.92
0.15
Utility Man
2016-06-15
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.24
10
0.02
Mechanic
2016-06-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Electrician
2016-06-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2016-06-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Oiler, Greaser
2016-06-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2010-09-08
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.14
10
0.01
Truck Driver
2010-09-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2010-09-08
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.49
10
0.05
Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-09-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2010-09-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
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.
Arkansas Aggregates 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 Arkansas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.60 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
2025 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
3.39
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
4.18
0.00
0.000
2018 *
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
2026
19
2025
20
2024
27
2023
29
2022
46
2021
35
2020
35
2019
24
2018
39
2017
33
2016
27
2015
27
2014
27
2013
28
2012
36
2011
31
2010
36
2009
43
2008
22
2007
11
2006
6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Arkansas Aggregates sits in Pulaski County, Arkansas, 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.
Pulaski County, Arkansas · Population 398,949
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$60,385
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
2026 Q2
10,378
5
0
481.8
2026 Q1
9,522
6
0
630.1
2025 Q4
8,894
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
9,553
6
0
628.1
2025 Q2
10,002
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
9,691
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
11,243
3
0
266.8
2024 Q3
12,650
2
0
158.1
Show 71 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
12,297
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
11,462
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
10,510
4
0
380.6
2023 Q3
11,148
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
13,080
4
1
305.8
2023 Q1
13,337
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
14,916
4
0
268.2
2022 Q3
12,840
11
0
856.7
2022 Q2
12,043
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
12,515
15
6
1198.6
2021 Q4
13,797
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
13,557
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
16,905
6
3
354.9
2021 Q1
14,694
6
0
408.3
2020 Q4
14,355
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
13,086
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
9,246
2
1
216.3
2020 Q1
8,932
5
0
559.8
2019 Q4
9,069
0
0
0.0
2019 Q3
9,658
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
17,815
3
1
168.4
2019 Q1
11,350
0
0
0.0
2018 Q4
15,034
5
1
332.6
2018 Q3
16,616
0
0
0.0
2018 Q2
19,044
2
0
105.0
2018 Q1
19,663
0
0
0.0
2017 Q4
18,283
5
1
273.5
2017 Q3
21,883
18
4
822.6
2017 Q2
16,089
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
12,201
9
1
737.6
2016 Q4
11,834
0
0
0.0
2016 Q3
11,082
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
12,306
5
3
406.3
2016 Q1
12,429
2
0
160.9
2015 Q4
14,578
0
0
0.0
2015 Q3
12,991
10
2
769.8
2015 Q2
12,223
0
0
0.0
2015 Q1
10,468
0
0
0.0
2014 Q4
12,077
5
0
414.0
2014 Q3
17,102
0
0
0.0
2014 Q2
14,911
8
3
536.5
2014 Q1
16,508
0
0
0.0
2013 Q4
14,435
4
0
277.1
2013 Q3
17,445
0
0
0.0
2013 Q2
10,864
4
1
368.2
2013 Q1
13,632
4
1
293.4
2012 Q4
21,794
0
0
0.0
2012 Q3
12,976
3
1
231.2
2012 Q2
14,288
0
0
0.0
2012 Q1
13,244
0
0
0.0
2011 Q4
17,611
1
0
56.8
2011 Q3
13,023
0
0
0.0
2011 Q2
11,371
1
0
87.9
2011 Q1
8,555
3
1
350.7
2010 Q4
8,871
0
0
0.0
2010 Q3
16,120
12
5
744.4
2010 Q2
14,609
0
0
0.0
2010 Q1
10,035
0
0
0.0
2009 Q4
16,784
0
0
0.0
2009 Q3
16,433
12
6
730.2
2009 Q2
11,461
0
0
0.0
2009 Q1
4,005
0
0
0.0
2008 Q4
512
0
0
0.0
2008 Q3
4,000
0
0
0.0
2008 Q2
5,671
2
1
352.7
2008 Q1
4,244
0
0
0.0
2007 Q4
1,876
0
0
0.0
2007 Q3
2,183
10
0
4580.9
2007 Q2
3,283
0
0
0.0
2007 Q1
2,714
0
0
0.0
2006 Q4
249
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file
2026 · 1 incident
May 21, 2026AR · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
QJV, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Employee was trying to remove a 100lbs rock off of a belt. Employee picked up the rock, swung to EE's left side smashing EE's finger into a metal railing. The rock smashed EE's pinky resulting in stitches.
2021 · 1 incident
December 9, 2021AR · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
QJV, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
employee smashed pinky finger of EE's right hand with the door of an excavator while exiting the machine.
The driver was not aware of where the rear axle was when backing up to the dump location therefore backing into a hole that was approximately 8 foot deep.
2014 · 1 incident
April 15, 2014AR · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee did not follow the 3 Point Rule, thereby, failing to comply with company policy on equipment procedure. He fell from the loader cat walk. Resulting injury was compression fraction to T7 vertebrae. Prognosis is 6 weeks in back brace.