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Beaverdam Quarry: 68 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Robert E Paul
Elberton, Elbert County, GA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0901117

Beaverdam Quarry has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $286 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
11
Years on record
2005–2019
Latest incident
Nov 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
68
citations
19
significant & substantial
$11,201
proposed penalties
$10,520
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $681 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Eagle Granite Co Inc dba Beaverdam Qrry's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
79
inspections on record
963
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: 963 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Beaverdam Quarry has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $286 outstanding across 3 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$286
outstanding
67 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $3K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-09-25.
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.
28.4%
significant & substantial
13.4%
high negligence or reckless
28.4%
reasonably likely or greater
56.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 10.4% low, 76.1% moderate, 13.4% 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.
6 citations taken to the federal commission · 9% of citations on record
  • Settled 4 · 67%
  • Stood as issued 2 · 33%
67%
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 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
11%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$3K proposed, $3K 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 2022-11-09.
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
SE 2023-0034 Default 2023 $2K → $2K
SE 2010-413M Settlement Tureck 2011 $745 → $350
SE 2008-742M Settlement Feldman 2009 $300 → $300
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: 2026-02-24
38%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
64
samples
29
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2911 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg33
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (64)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2010-03-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.07 0.59 1.81 Jackhammer Operator
2010-03-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.91 0.66 1.38 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2009-12-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.22 0.83 1.47 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2009-12-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.73 0.61 1.20 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2009-12-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.86 0.61 3.05 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2009-11-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.02 0.59 1.73 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2009-11-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.91 0.58 1.57 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2009-11-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.95 0.59 1.61 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2009-08-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.58 0.5 1.16 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2009-08-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.94 0.52 1.81 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2003-07-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.84 0.47 1.79 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2026-02-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2026-02-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2026-02-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Overhead Crane Operator
2026-02-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2025-05-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2025-05-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Overhead Crane Operator
2025-05-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2023-09-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2023-09-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2023-09-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2023-09-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2023-03-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2023-03-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2023-03-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2022-09-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mobile Crane Operator
2022-09-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.62 0.31 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2022-09-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2022-09-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2021-09-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mobile Crane Operator
2021-09-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2021-09-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2020-07-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mobile Crane Operator
2020-07-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2020-07-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 Laborer, Bullgang
2020-07-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.59 0.6 0.98 Laborer, Bullgang
2018-02-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2018-02-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.89 0.22 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2018-02-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.59 0.75 0.79 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2017-02-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2017-02-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 0.59 0.39 Jackhammer Operator
2015-05-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Jackhammer Operator
2015-05-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 1.18 0.17 Jackhammer Operator
2015-05-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.46 0.59 0.78 Jackhammer Operator
2015-05-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.39 0.55 0.71 Jackhammer Operator
2013-04-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.62 0.98 0.63 Cutting Mach Operator
2013-04-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 0.56 0.59 Drill Oper., Jackleg/Stoper
2011-02-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2011-02-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2011-02-23 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 10 0.01 Cleanup Man
2011-02-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2010-07-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.52 0.68 0.76 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2010-07-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.65 0.74 0.88 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2010-07-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 0.61 0.54 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2010-03-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.48 0.63 0.76 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2009-12-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2009-11-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.48 0.55 0.87 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2009-10-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 1.03 0.12 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2008-12-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Drill Oper., Jackleg/Stoper
2008-12-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Jet Piercing Chan. Operator
2005-06-21 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.26 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2005-06-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2003-10-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0.02 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2002-01-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 1.2 0.11 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
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. Acme Granite Company Inc 1999 to 2002
  2. Eagle Granite Co Inc dba Beaverdam Qrry 2002 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 7
2025 7
2024 7
2023 8
2022 7
2021 8
2020 10
2019 7
2018 8
2017 8
2016 7
2015 7
2014 7
2013 7
2012 7
2011 7
2010 6
2009 7
2008 7
2007 7
2006 7
2005 7
2004 7
2003 6
2002 5
2001 4
2000 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Beaverdam Quarry sits in Elbert County, Georgia, where the Census mining category is 2.7% 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.
Elbert County, Georgia · Population 19,725
2.7%
Mining share of county employment
$49,727
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 3,596 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 3,255 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 3,584 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,266 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,563 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,516 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,255 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,291 0 0 0.0
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 3,458 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,416 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 2,819 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,064 2 0 652.7
2023 Q2 3,581 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,208 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,094 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,454 2 2 815.0
2022 Q2 3,253 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,048 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,197 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,081 1 0 324.6
2021 Q2 3,291 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 3,467 2 0 576.9
2020 Q4 4,397 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,742 2 1 534.5
2020 Q2 3,552 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 3,667 1 0 272.7
2019 Q4 3,431 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,239 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 3,930 1 1 254.5
2019 Q1 3,305 1 1 302.6
2018 Q4 3,580 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,219 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 3,297 1 0 303.3
2018 Q1 3,286 1 0 304.3
2017 Q4 3,883 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 3,494 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,690 1 0 271.0
2017 Q1 3,394 2 0 589.3
2016 Q4 3,437 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,581 1 0 279.3
2016 Q2 3,181 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 2,631 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2,884 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 3,243 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 3,413 3 0 879.0
2015 Q1 2,676 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 3,323 2 0 601.9
2014 Q3 3,131 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,224 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 5,504 1 0 181.7
2013 Q4 2,706 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 3,143 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 3,571 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 3,163 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 3,388 2 1 590.3
2012 Q3 3,582 2 0 558.3
2012 Q2 3,724 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 3,510 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 4,328 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 3,258 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 3,750 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 2,962 1 0 337.6
2010 Q4 3,111 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 2,969 4 2 1347.3
2010 Q2 2,949 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 2,593 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 2,576 1 0 388.2
2009 Q3 2,748 5 3 1819.5
2009 Q2 3,236 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,867 3 2 1046.4
2008 Q4 3,458 2 2 578.4
2008 Q3 3,247 2 1 616.0
2008 Q2 3,534 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 3,118 3 0 962.2
2007 Q4 3,354 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 3,357 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 3,678 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 3,370 1 0 296.7
2006 Q4 3,137 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 3,327 1 0 300.6
2006 Q2 3,472 2 0 576.0
2006 Q1 3,185 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 3,185 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 3,340 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 3,247 3 1 923.9
2005 Q1 3,275 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 3,412 2 1 586.2
2004 Q3 3,671 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 3,573 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 2,684 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 3,410 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 3,002 3 1 999.3
2003 Q2 2,706 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 3,172 3 0 945.8
2002 Q4 3,535 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,994 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 662 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 338 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 862 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,026 3 0 2924.0
2001 Q2 1,341 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 1,246 1 0 802.6
2000 Q4 926 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,162 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,068 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,236 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

11 on file

2019 · 1 incident

2018 · 2 incidents

March 12, 2018 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Eagle Granite Co Inc dba Beaverdam Qrry · Fall onto or against objects

Crane hook caught employee's shirt causing them to trip and fall. When they fell, leg hit outrigger. EE didn't go to the doctor until Monday, April 2, 2018 due to the fact they were hoping it would get better over time, but it actually became more sore and agitated as EE continued to be active on the leg. Hence the reason for the delay in seeking medical attention.

2015 · 1 incident

June 10, 2015 GA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Eagle Granite Co Inc dba Beaverdam Qrry · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee stated he was manually raising the staff on the automatic burner & it came up and hit/cut his right index finger.

2014 · 1 incident

2011 · 1 incident

2010 · 1 incident

2006 · 1 incident

2005 · 3 incidents