Mining Incidents

Avon Site: 12 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Avon NY, Livingston County, NY  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3000880

Avon Site has $2K 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 2016
12
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,541
proposed penalties
$1,541
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
22
inspections on record
347
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: 347 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Avon Site has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
12 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-04.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
58.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 66.7% low, 33.3% 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: 2023-10-03
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
10
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz5
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (10)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2023-10-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2023-10-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 Utility Man
2023-10-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2023-10-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2017-11-15 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.17 Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2017-11-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 1.12 0.11 Utility Man
2017-06-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.81 0.21 Laborer, Bullgang
2017-06-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.8 0.25 Laborer, Bullgang
2016-06-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 1.13 0.19 Crusher Oper/Worker
2016-06-14 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.

Avon Site 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
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
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 New York, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.08 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
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 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.
Ownership history
  1. Valley Sand & Gravel Corp 1950 to 1983
  2. Valley Sand & Gravel Inc 1983 to 2015
  3. Valley Sand & Gravel Inc 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 11
2025 11
2024 12
2023 12
2022 12
2021 12
2020 11
2019 11
2018 12
2017 11
2016 21
2015 16
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Avon Site sits in Livingston County, New York, where the Census mining category is 1.2% 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.
Livingston County, New York · Population 61,588
1.2%
Mining share of county employment
$72,464
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 6,254 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 4,180 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 5,151 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 5,918 2 0 338.0
2025 Q2 4,923 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 4,401 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4,088 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 4,698 0 0 0.0
Show 35 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 5,000 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 5,775 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 4,348 2 0 460.0
2023 Q3 5,363 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 5,337 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 6,603 1 0 151.4
2022 Q4 4,497 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 4,733 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 5,000 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 5,015 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 4,289 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 4,721 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 5,377 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 6,116 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 4,104 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 5,030 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 4,861 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 4,911 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,823 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 4,407 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 4,742 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 4,924 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 4,278 1 0 233.8
2018 Q3 5,339 1 0 187.3
2018 Q2 5,495 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 4,990 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 4,578 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,540 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 5,669 1 0 176.4
2017 Q1 3,850 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 3,889 1 0 257.1
2016 Q3 4,210 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 5,578 3 0 537.8
2016 Q1 5,710 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 4,240 0 0 0.0

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.