Big Creek II: 2 MSHA citations
Metal/Non-Metal
Big Creek II has $302 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
- 1
- Years on record
- 2025
- Latest incident
- Apr 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2025
0
significant & substantial
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2025
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 44 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Big Creek II has $302 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
2 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-09.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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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
0.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 50.0% low, 50.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
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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)
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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: 2026-04-09
Most sampled contaminants
- Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (3)
| Date |
Contaminant |
Concentration |
Limit |
Conc / limit |
Occupation |
| 2026-04-09 |
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz |
0 |
10 |
0.00 |
Stone Polisher/Cutter |
| 2026-04-09 |
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz |
1.62 |
10 |
0.16 |
Hand Loader |
| 2026-04-09 |
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz |
1.3 |
10 |
0.13 |
Stone Polisher/Cutter |
Area samples (mill and shop air)
Last sampled: 2026-04-09
Show the individual readings (2)
| Date |
Contaminant |
Concentration |
Limit |
Conc / limit |
Area sampled |
| 2026-04-09 |
ANALYZED BULK DUST MASS |
0 |
|
|
SF ACTIVE MINING |
| 2026-04-09 |
QUARTZ (BULK DUST) |
0 |
|
|
SF ACTIVE MINING |
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
-
Big Creek Limestone
2024 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year |
Employees |
| 2026 |
10 |
| 2025 |
9 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Big Creek II sits in Monroe County, Indiana, where the Census mining category is 0.1% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.
Monroe County, Indiana · Population 139,822
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$63,372
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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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 |
5,122 |
1 |
0 |
195.2 |
| 2026 Q1 |
4,000 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2025 Q4 |
4,299 |
1 |
0 |
232.6 |
| 2025 Q3 |
4,450 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2025 Q2 |
4,466 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2025 Q1 |
3,828 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2025 · 1 incident
April 10, 2025
IN · Metal/Non-Metal
stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Big Creek Limestone · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Pin used to anchor saw track to the ground was stuck in a drill hole. Miner was using a sledge hammer to dislodge the pin when the hammer glanced the pin, bouncing off, and striking the left small finger. Fracturing the tip of the finger and causing a laceration.