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: 201 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: 2023-08-15.
On record since 2023.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
Ashland Aggregate has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
19 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-03-26.
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: 2018-02-27, 8 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
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Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2018-02-27
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2025
10
2024
11
2023
7
2022
6
2021
9
2020
8
2019
2
2018
2
2017
2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Ashland Aggregate sits in Clark County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Clark County, Kansas · Population 1,987
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$65,515
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
2025 Q2
2,949
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
3,810
4
2
1049.9
2024 Q4
4,144
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
4,978
0
0
0.0
2024 Q2
5,604
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
4,859
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
2,510
1
0
398.4
2023 Q3
2,996
4
1
1335.1
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2023 Q2
2,890
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
3,104
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
2,350
1
0
425.5
2022 Q3
2,943
1
0
339.8
2022 Q2
2,656
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
2,400
1
0
416.7
2021 Q4
2,800
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
4,276
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
5,698
0
0
0.0
2021 Q1
5,037
0
0
0.0
2020 Q4
5,605
2
0
356.8
2020 Q3
5,400
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
4,684
0
0
0.0
2020 Q1
1,826
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
1,452
0
0
0.0
2019 Q3
764
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
422
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
398
1
1
2512.6
2018 Q4
420
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
268
0
0
0.0
2018 Q2
343
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
384
5
3
13020.8
2017 Q4
145
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
20
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
680
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file
2023 · 1 incident
August 22, 2023KS · Metal/Non-Metalcrusher attendant/operator, pan feeder operator/workerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee operating the Crusher saw the belt stop on the machine and got off the machine to shut it down; on EE's way to the shutdown button, EE tripped and hit EE's head on a rock on the ground, cutting head. Received 3 stitches.
Employee was holding the head of a carriage bolt with fingers, another employee was running impact wrench. The impact wrench spun the bolt cutting EE's thumb.
2019 · 1 incident
March 27, 2019KS · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)