Mining Incidents
Search Operators Mines Alerts Research Controllers Fatalgrams About
English Español
← Back to search

Bally Mountain Quarry 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.

Watch this mine

Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at Bally Mountain Quarry.

Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2023–2024
Latest incident
Jan 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
166
citations
48
significant & substantial
$46,838
proposed penalties
$42,298
paid to date
90% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,540 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
61
inspections on record
936
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: 936 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
$43K
current assessed
$42K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
166 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-29.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
See also the operator's enforcement record
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 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
2024 Q2 9,510 2 1 210.3
2024 Q1 8,206 0 0 0.0
Show 73 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
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 3 0 394.4
2020 Q3 8,454 2 1 236.6
2020 Q2 7,646 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 8,708 4 0 459.3
2019 Q4 9,196 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 9,282 5 2 538.7
2019 Q2 7,623 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 7,919 2 1 252.6
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 3 1 407.8
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 8 0 1121.5
2016 Q3 6,755 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 7,781 6 2 771.1
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 5 3 848.6
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 2 0 384.0
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 7 3 1556.2
2011 Q4 2,811 9 2 3201.7
2011 Q3 3,041 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 3,243 6 1 1850.1
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 7 3 1512.9
2009 Q4 5,579 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 6,561 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 5,837 6 4 1027.9
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.

For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants

The full compliance file on Bally Mountain Quarry

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.

Get the report ($149) See a sample report Monitor a whole book of operators, $99/mo