Mining Incidents

Austin Western 15x24 Jaw Crshr #1524112: 11 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

French Sand & Gravel · Surface
Controlled by Wayne H French
Russell, St Lawrence County, NY  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3003921

Austin Western 15x24 Jaw Crshr #1524112 has $1K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
11
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,420
proposed penalties
$1,420
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
17
inspections on record
196
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: 196 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Austin Western 15x24 Jaw Crshr #1524112 has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-26.
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.
18.2%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
18.2%
reasonably likely or greater
54.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 18.2% low, 81.8% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2025-06-26
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg5
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (8)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-06-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-06-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-06-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2023-06-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-06-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.37 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-06-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.5 0.56 0.89 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2018-10-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-10-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
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.
Ownership history
  1. French Sand & Gravel 2014 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 1
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Austin Western 15x24 Jaw Crshr #1524112 sits in St. Lawrence County, New York, 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.
St. Lawrence County, New York · Population 107,796
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$61,900
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 800 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 880 1 1 1136.4
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 640 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,040 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 880 1 0 1136.4
Show 39 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 560 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,040 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 880 2 0 2272.7
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 600 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,120 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 840 1 0 1190.5
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 280 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,040 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 880 2 0 2272.7
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 400 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,040 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 560 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 160 1 0 6250.0
2019 Q3 1,040 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 800 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 440 1 1 2272.7
2018 Q3 1,040 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 800 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 380 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 940 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 740 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 420 1 0 2381.0
2016 Q3 875 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 390 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 240 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 600 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 150 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 520 1 0 1923.1

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.