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Black Run: 39 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Falmouth, Lawrence County, PA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3609568

Black Run has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2015–2018
Latest incident
Aug 2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
39
citations
3
significant & substantial
$4,969
proposed penalties
$4,969
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Three Rivers Aggregate Holding LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
29
inspections on record
400
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: 400 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Black Run has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
39 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $317 in penalties contested before the Commission, $0 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-04.
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.
7.7%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
7.7%
reasonably likely or greater
35.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 69.2% low, 30.8% moderate, 0.0% 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.
3 citations taken to the federal commission · 8% of citations on record
  • Vacated or withdrawn 3 · 100%
0%
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 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
100%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$317 proposed, $0 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 2012-09-21.
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
PENN 2012-453M Withdrawal Lesnick 2013 $317 → $0
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: 2025-09-09
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
12
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg9
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (12)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-09-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2025-09-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-09-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2023-02-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2023-02-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2023-02-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2018-10-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2018-10-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-11-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2012-11-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.61 0.23 Laborer, Bullgang
2012-11-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.58 0.24 Bulldozer Operator
2012-11-29 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 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.

Black Run 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 Pennsylvania, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.07 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 * 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 * 8.22 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. Three Rivers Aggregates 2007 to 2010
  2. Three Rivers Aggregate Holding LLC 2010 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 10
2025 12
2024 11
2023 11
2022 11
2021 12
2020 12
2019 12
2018 12
2017 12
2016 11
2015 9
2014 9
2013 8
2012 9
2009 0
2008 2
2007 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Black Run sits in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, 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.
Lawrence County, Pennsylvania · Population 85,423
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$60,779
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 5,435 5 0 920.0
2026 Q1 7,049 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 4,448 1 0 224.8
2025 Q3 6,271 2 1 318.9
2025 Q2 6,039 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 5,924 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4,112 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 5,736 1 0 174.3
Show 57 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 5,881 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 5,736 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 5,442 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 5,607 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 5,739 3 0 522.7
2023 Q1 5,880 4 0 680.3
2022 Q4 5,707 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 6,594 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 6,727 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 6,012 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 6,365 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 6,786 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 6,532 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 6,168 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 6,084 4 1 657.5
2020 Q3 6,667 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 6,410 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 4,657 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 6,301 1 0 158.7
2019 Q3 7,116 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 6,640 1 0 150.6
2019 Q1 5,951 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 7,025 1 0 142.3
2018 Q3 6,792 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 6,746 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3,761 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 5,528 1 0 180.9
2017 Q3 6,595 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 5,615 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 3,559 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 6,541 2 1 305.8
2016 Q3 6,317 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 7,267 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 3,922 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 6,512 1 0 153.6
2015 Q3 6,019 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 5,546 2 0 360.6
2015 Q1 4,111 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 7,695 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 6,668 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 6,432 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 3,740 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 4,076 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 6,413 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 7,747 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 3,165 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 5,633 1 0 177.5
2012 Q3 5,100 5 0 980.4
2012 Q2 5,398 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 0 1 0
2008 Q3 1,240 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,675 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 592 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,765 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2018 · 1 incident

August 3, 2018 PA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Three Rivers Aggregate Holding LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was supervising another employee who was operating a power drill. The bit on the drill broke and the broken piece ricocheted and hit EE in the front tooth. As EE yelled and put hand up to mouth the employee operating the drill pulled the drill down from where the operator was drilling and the sharp end of the bit struck EE's right hand, cutting EE's small finger.

2015 · 4 incidents

August 17, 2015 PA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Three Rivers Aggregate Holding LLC · Struck against stationary object

Driving a ground rod when he missed with hammer causing left hand to hit the top of the ground rod resulting in a laceration.

April 15, 2015 PA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Three Rivers Aggregate Holding LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cutting rubber belting with a utility knife when it slipped and stabbed him in the left leg.

January 27, 2015 PA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Three Rivers Aggregate Holding LLC · Struck against a moving object

Employee was taking load of anti-skid in articulating truck to pit. It was snowing and there was a fresh coat of snow on the haul road. Employee hit a frozen pile of millings laying along the side of the haul road with the front right tire of the articulating truck he was operating at which time the cab rocked and the employee struck the right side of his head on the window.