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AWS PIT #1: 89 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Oneonta, Blount County, AL  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0103190

AWS PIT #1 has $13K 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
6
Years on record
2000–2025
Latest incident
Mar 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
89
citations
24
significant & substantial
$12,578
proposed penalties
$12,578
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Alabama Wholesale Stone, Inc.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
78
inspections on record
1,128
inspection hours
7.9
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.
89 citations across 1,128 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

AWS PIT #1 has $13K 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.
$13K
proposed penalties
$13K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
88 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-03.
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.
27.3%
significant & substantial
5.7%
high negligence or reckless
27.3%
reasonably likely or greater
56.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 8.0% low, 86.4% moderate, 5.7% 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: 2026-04-01
21%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
47
samples
34
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz357 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg11
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (47)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-08-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 0.29 1.14 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2023-10-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.6 0.31 1.94 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2023-07-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.13 0.74 1.53 Cutting Mach Operator
2023-06-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.57 0.3 5.23 Cutting Mach Operator
2020-10-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.76 0.36 2.11 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2002-04-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.37 0.33 1.12 Laborer, Bullgang
2002-04-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 0.25 1.00 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2026-04-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.53 0.40 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2026-04-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2026-04-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 0.31 0.84 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2026-04-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2025-08-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.23 0.65 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2025-08-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Hand Trammer
2025-03-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2025-03-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 0.47 0.55 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2025-03-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-07-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.22 0.68 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2024-07-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2024-03-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 0.57 0.40 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2024-03-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.3 0.53 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2024-03-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 0.29 0.90 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2024-03-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.39 0.36 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2024-03-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.23 0.61 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2023-11-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2023-11-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.31 0.68 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2023-11-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.32 0.66 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2023-10-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 0.42 0.60 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2023-10-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.39 0.51 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2023-06-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 0.35 0.89 Cutting Mach Operator
2023-06-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.32 0.51 0.63 Cutting Mach Operator
2023-01-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.32 0.44 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2023-01-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2023-01-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.23 0.65 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2022-09-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-09-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Forklift Operator
2022-09-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Packaging Operations Worker
2020-12-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cutting Mach Operator
2020-10-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.32 0.44 0.73 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2020-10-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 0.32 0.88 Hand Loader
2009-06-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.46 0.49 0.94 Bobcat Operator
2009-06-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.43 0.44 Laborer, Bullgang
2009-06-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 0.35 0.94 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2009-06-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 0.5 0.48 Bobcat Operator
2009-06-26 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-04-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.47 0.43 Laborer, Bullgang
2002-04-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 0.55 0.60 Laborer, Bullgang
2002-04-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.41 0.58 0.71 Laborer, Bullgang
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.

AWS PIT #1 recorded 1.57 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.
1.57
total case rate
1.57
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
About 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 Alabama, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.52 cases per 100 workers that year.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2025 1.57 1.57 0.000
2024 1.68 1.68 0.000
2023 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 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. Alabama Wholesale Stone, Inc. 2000 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 68
2025 60
2024 60
2023 51
2022 42
2021 44
2020 36
2019 29
2018 27
2017 30
2016 26
2015 25
2014 26
2013 22
2012 20
2011 21
2010 24
2009 22
2008 24
2007 24
2006 21
2005 19
2004 15
2003 12
2002 12
2001 14
2000 9
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

AWS PIT #1 sits in Blount County, Alabama, 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.
Blount County, Alabama · Population 59,292
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$61,096
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 39,274 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 29,327 1 0 34.1
2025 Q4 32,666 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 32,114 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 32,645 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 30,242 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 27,865 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 32,185 0 0 0.0
Show 97 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 30,820 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 28,495 1 0 35.1
2023 Q4 27,084 2 1 73.8
2023 Q3 26,476 1 1 37.8
2023 Q2 24,380 5 1 205.1
2023 Q1 23,360 2 0 85.6
2022 Q4 21,373 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 25,251 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 25,717 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 21,416 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 19,465 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 21,599 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 22,166 1 1 45.1
2021 Q1 19,520 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 17,820 4 2 224.5
2020 Q3 23,839 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 20,309 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 20,097 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 15,141 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 16,442 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 15,453 2 0 129.4
2019 Q1 14,192 3 1 211.4
2018 Q4 14,556 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 15,757 1 0 63.5
2018 Q2 15,737 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 13,926 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 13,738 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 16,453 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 16,554 1 0 60.4
2017 Q1 15,083 3 0 198.9
2016 Q4 14,710 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 15,723 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 16,250 2 0 123.1
2016 Q1 13,500 1 0 74.1
2015 Q4 12,219 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 16,546 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 15,636 1 1 64.0
2015 Q1 12,109 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 15,160 2 2 131.9
2014 Q3 16,112 3 1 186.2
2014 Q2 15,206 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 11,141 2 0 179.5
2013 Q4 13,711 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 13,551 2 0 147.6
2013 Q2 13,378 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 10,555 1 0 94.7
2012 Q4 11,730 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 12,027 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 13,134 3 1 228.4
2012 Q1 9,856 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 12,205 2 1 163.9
2011 Q3 12,599 1 1 79.4
2011 Q2 12,967 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 7,140 1 0 140.1
2010 Q4 12,419 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 13,236 1 0 75.6
2010 Q2 14,006 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 8,865 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 10,766 2 2 185.8
2009 Q3 11,895 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 11,810 5 5 423.4
2009 Q1 8,373 3 0 358.3
2008 Q4 13,329 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 16,268 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 16,027 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 11,394 1 0 87.8
2007 Q4 13,472 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 17,198 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 17,273 3 0 173.7
2007 Q1 12,500 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 11,260 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 12,627 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 13,725 3 0 218.6
2006 Q1 10,048 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 10,080 4 0 396.8
2005 Q3 13,268 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 11,630 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 7,593 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 9,233 2 0 216.6
2004 Q3 9,691 1 0 103.2
2004 Q2 8,766 1 0 114.1
2004 Q1 5,828 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 6,109 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 8,071 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 7,115 2 0 281.1
2003 Q1 5,055 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 5,087 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 14,984 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 5,950 3 0 504.2
2002 Q1 4,921 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 5,331 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 7,170 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 6,105 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 4,645 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 4,322 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 5,174 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 4,726 2 0 423.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2025 · 1 incident

March 10, 2025 AL · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor MACHINERY
Alabama Wholesale Stone, Inc. · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was at the breaker on the receiving end. Employee was turning around a stone to be processed into small pieces. Employee admitted to being distracted/looked away, the tip of employee's right index finger was smashed by the shifting stone. Employee was wearing gloves, employee was sent to the ER to evaluate. Awaiting results from follow up.

2024 · 1 incident

July 10, 2024 AL · Metal/Non-Metal hammer mill operator, breaker mill operator, jaw mill operator MACHINERY
Alabama Wholesale Stone, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee used improper procedure when operating breaker which caused finger to be pinched in between metal table and rock. Right pinky finger was crushed.

2007 · 1 incident

January 23, 2007 AL · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec POWERED HAULAGE
Alabama Wholesale Stone, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Checking oil leak on bobcat 95xtd, malfunction of equipment caused it to roll forward and strike rt. foot and ankle of employee causing possible fracture. Contacted case tractor and filing report, safety feature of equipment malfunctioned cuaisng this incident.

2001 · 2 incidents

September 20, 2001 AL · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Alabama Wholesale Stone, Inc. · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE MASHED FINGER WHILE HANDLING STONE. RECEIVED 6 STITCHES IN FINGER.

May 19, 2001 AL · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner OTHER
Alabama Wholesale Stone, Inc. · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE REPORTED PAIN IN LOWER BACK GOING DOWN BACK OF LEG-SENT TO ER AND SPECIALS EE HAS HERAIATED DISK, UNDERGOING TREATMENT AND P.T. AT THIS TIME.

2000 · 1 incident