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Bally Mountain Quarry: 167 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Carnegie, Kiowa County, OK  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3401983

Bally Mountain Quarry has $47K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2023–2024
Latest incident
Jan 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
167
citations
48
significant & substantial
$46,989
proposed penalties
$42,298
paid to date
90% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,691 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Western Aggregates, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
62
inspections on record
953
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: 953 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Bally Mountain Quarry has $47K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 4 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.
$47K
proposed penalties
$44K
current assessed
$42K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
166 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $5K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-08.
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.
28.7%
significant & substantial
10.8%
high negligence or reckless
28.7%
reasonably likely or greater
47.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 6.0% low, 83.2% moderate, 10.8% high, 0.0% reckless.
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.
4 citations taken to the federal commission · 2% of citations on record
  • Settled 4 · 100%
75%
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 4 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
75%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$5K 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 2020-10-25.
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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
CENT 2018-0165 Settlement Manning 2018 $3K → $359
CENT 2010-532M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $807 → $270
CENT 2021-0017 Settlement Manning 2021 $378 → $378
CENT 2017-0120 Settlement Manning 2017 $200 → $160
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2024-06-05
5%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
33
samples
21
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz201 over
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz5
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg5
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (33)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2009-04-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 3.16 2.27 1.39 Laborer, Bullgang
2024-06-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Drill Operator, Rotary
2024-06-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-06-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-06-05 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 10 0.01 Truck Driver
2020-01-30 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.44 Truck Driver
2020-01-30 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 Utility Man
2020-01-30 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 3.3 Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-08-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Sampler, Dust
2018-08-02 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 10 0.02 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-08-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.34 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2018-08-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.52 Laborer, Bullgang
2018-08-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2015-06-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 2.01 0.14 Drill Operator, Rotary
2015-06-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.62 1.62 0.38 Laborer, Bullgang
2015-06-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.7 2.09 0.33 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-08-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.44 2.24 0.20 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-08-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.5 2.39 0.21 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-08-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.73 1.87 0.39 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2013-08-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.62 2.4 0.26 Truck Driver
2013-08-07 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.44 10 0.04 Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-10-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.86 2.06 0.42 Backhoe Operator
2011-10-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.51 1.71 0.30 Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-10-05 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.17 10 0.02 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-10-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.71 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-10-14 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.39 10 0.04 Laborer, Bullgang
2010-10-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.89 Backhoe Operator
2010-05-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.95 2.46 0.39 Laborer, Bullgang
2010-05-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.98 2.29 0.43 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-05-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.46 2.14 0.21 Backhoe Operator
2009-06-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.5 2.03 0.25 Laborer, Bullgang
2008-06-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.36 2.72 0.13 Backhoe Operator
2008-06-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.34 2.08 0.16 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.

Bally Mountain Quarry 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 Oklahoma, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.92 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 * 11.85 11.85 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. V J Stone LLC 2005 to 2011
  2. Western Aggregates, LLC 2011 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 15
2025 15
2024 14
2023 14
2022 17
2021 19
2020 15
2019 14
2018 13
2017 12
2016 13
2015 11
2014 9
2013 9
2012 8
2011 6
2010 6
2009 6
2008 7
2007 4
2006 5
2005 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Bally Mountain Quarry sits in Kiowa County, Oklahoma, where the Census mining category is 3.8% 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.
Kiowa County, Oklahoma · Population 8,458
3.8%
Mining share of county employment
$42,063
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 10,102 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 9,988 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 9,173 2 0 218.0
2025 Q3 9,515 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 9,477 2 0 211.0
2025 Q1 9,119 2 0 219.3
2024 Q4 9,267 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 7,995 0 0 0.0
Show 75 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 9,510 2 1 210.3
2024 Q1 8,206 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 8,560 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 8,432 2 0 237.2
2023 Q2 8,691 10 2 1150.6
2023 Q1 8,073 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 7,803 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 8,752 3 1 342.8
2022 Q2 3,196 1 0 312.9
2022 Q1 9,242 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 10,423 1 0 95.9
2021 Q3 10,833 2 0 184.6
2021 Q2 10,032 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 7,969 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 7,607 1 0 131.5
2020 Q3 8,454 1 0 118.3
2020 Q2 7,646 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 8,708 1 0 114.8
2019 Q4 9,196 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 9,282 4 2 430.9
2019 Q2 7,623 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 7,919 1 1 126.3
2018 Q4 7,461 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 6,565 1 0 152.3
2018 Q2 7,448 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 6,742 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 7,357 2 1 271.8
2017 Q3 6,975 4 2 573.5
2017 Q2 7,153 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 7,138 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 7,133 2 0 280.4
2016 Q3 6,755 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 7,781 2 1 257.0
2016 Q1 8,992 3 0 333.6
2015 Q4 7,064 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 7,291 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 5,892 1 1 169.7
2015 Q1 4,881 1 0 204.9
2014 Q4 5,571 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 5,538 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 5,208 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 4,425 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 4,519 8 3 1770.3
2013 Q3 4,786 2 0 417.9
2013 Q2 5,016 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 4,256 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 3,989 2 0 501.4
2012 Q3 5,108 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 6,069 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 4,498 1 0 222.3
2011 Q4 2,811 2 0 711.5
2011 Q3 3,041 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 3,243 2 1 616.7
2011 Q1 4,662 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 5,549 8 3 1441.7
2010 Q3 4,842 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 4,179 19 7 4546.5
2010 Q1 4,627 6 2 1296.7
2009 Q4 5,579 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 6,561 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 5,837 5 4 856.6
2009 Q1 4,505 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 7,314 4 3 546.9
2008 Q3 7,529 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 4,039 5 0 1237.9
2008 Q1 7,179 4 0 557.2
2007 Q4 3,934 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,754 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,628 3 3 648.2
2007 Q1 2,054 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 2,107 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 3,032 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 2,425 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 4,415 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 733 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2024 · 1 incident

January 31, 2024 OK · Metal/Non-Metal utility man, shift tech, service/dump truck operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Western Aggregates, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

picked up box of boosters and turned at waist to put box into IME, felt sharp pain in back (1st day of treatment was 2/7/24)

2023 · 2 incidents

May 23, 2023 OK · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Western Aggregates, LLC · Struck against a moving object

Employee advised Manager that they bumped their right knee because they could not move the seat. Manager got in the haul truck and the seat did move back. EE reported the knee was fine, then on Saturday the 27th sent a text stating they wanted to go to the doctor on Tuesday, May 30th. They had just been released to full duty 5/15/23 from a left knee injury.

January 10, 2023 OK · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Western Aggregates, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was exiting a haul truck and when EE stepped down on uneven ground, EE felt knee pop.