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Blue Goose Mine: 76 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Vero Beach, Indian River County, FL  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0801373

Blue Goose Mine has $18K in proposed MSHA penalties and $8K outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2016–2024
Latest incident
Aug 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
76
citations
28
significant & substantial
$18,175
proposed penalties
$9,077
paid to date
50% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $9,098 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Blue Goose Construction LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
46
inspections on record
477
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: 477 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘ A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2015-03-25.
On record since 2015.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Blue Goose Mine has $18K in proposed MSHA penalties and $8K outstanding across 2 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.
$18K
proposed penalties
$17K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$8K
outstanding
74 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $7K in penalties contested before the Commission, $6K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-04-25.
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.
37.8%
significant & substantial
31.1%
high negligence or reckless
37.8%
reasonably likely or greater
43.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.1% low, 64.9% moderate, 31.1% 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.
17 citations taken to the federal commission · 22% of citations on record
  • Settled 16 · 94%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 6%
100%
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 7 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
10%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$7K proposed, $6K 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 2009-11-30.
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 2010-68M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $4K → $3K
SE 2010-242M Default Lesnick 2011 $3K → $3K
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: 2024-01-09
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
15
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg10
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (15)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-01-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2024-01-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-01-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2021-10-07 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 0 10 0.00 Truck Driver
2021-10-07 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 0.3 10 0.03 Backhoe Operator
2021-10-07 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 0 10 0.00 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-12-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2018-12-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-12-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2018-12-19 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.23 Backhoe Operator
2015-03-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-03-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-03-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 1.29 0.16 Backhoe Operator
2010-02-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-02-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
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.

Blue Goose Mine recorded 10.66 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2024.

Injury rate, 2024
ⓘ 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.
10.66
total case rate
10.66
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.77 and the all-US-mining average was 2.08 cases per 100 workers.
In Florida, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.49 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
2024 * 10.66 10.66 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2017 * 4.18 4.18 0.000
2016 * 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. ROD Aggregates Incorporated 2008 to 2009
  2. Vero Rock Mine, Inc. 2009 to 2011
  3. Range Road Mine, LLC 2012 to 2013
  4. Blue Goose Growers, LLC 2013 to 2013
  5. Hammond Rock & Sand Mine LLC 2013 to 2014
  6. Blue Goose Construction LLC 2014 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 6
2025 13
2024 15
2023 14
2022 16
2021 17
2020 10
2019 11
2018 12
2017 20
2016 14
2015 6
2014 5
2013 1
2011 1
2010 4
2009 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Blue Goose Mine sits in Indian River County, Florida, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Indian River County, Florida · Population 163,856
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$71,049
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 3,056 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 4,493 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 7,876 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 9,178 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 10,310 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 8,208 3 0 365.5
2024 Q3 10,305 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 9,077 0 0 0.0
Show 56 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1 9,928 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 9,824 1 1 101.8
2023 Q3 7,329 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,678 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 4,190 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 9,265 2 1 215.9
2022 Q3 7,732 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 7,405 1 0 135.0
2022 Q1 9,163 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 7,711 1 0 129.7
2021 Q3 7,533 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 8,058 3 1 372.3
2021 Q1 8,150 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 5,676 2 0 352.4
2020 Q3 3,914 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,947 1 0 339.3
2020 Q1 2,533 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 5,107 2 0 391.6
2019 Q3 3,323 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 5,566 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 4,433 1 0 225.6
2018 Q4 4,662 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 6,804 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 6,610 1 0 151.3
2018 Q1 8,891 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 7,816 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 11,503 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 11,178 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 17,328 1 0 57.7
2016 Q4 4,766 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 5,636 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 7,356 4 3 543.8
2016 Q1 10,331 1 1 96.8
2015 Q4 3,778 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,652 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,507 1 0 398.9
2015 Q1 3,576 2 1 559.3
2014 Q4 2,211 1 0 452.3
2014 Q3 2,543 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,685 3 1 1780.4
2014 Q1 800 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 804 3 0 3731.3
2013 Q3 45 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 0 2 1
2011 Q4 0 0 0
2011 Q3 0 0 0
2011 Q2 80 1 0 12500.0
2011 Q1 1,049 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,609 2 1 1243.0
2010 Q3 2,986 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,547 2 2 1292.8
2010 Q1 1,660 4 2 2409.6
2009 Q4 1,500 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 520 17 7 32692.3
2009 Q2 1,817 1 0 550.4
2009 Q1 2,562 6 3 2341.9
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2024 · 2 incidents

August 2, 2024 FL · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Blue Goose Construction LLC · Fall from machine

EE was stepping off the equipment and grabbed the handles, put right foot on the step and foot "slipped" off the step, and then EE fell to the ground. EE scraped right knee, had (5) small punctures on the palm of left hand, the thumb on EE's left hand was sore. EE also stated EE heard a "tearing" in left shoulder and felt pain in left shoulder.

January 19, 2024 FL · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec POWERED HAULAGE
Blue Goose Construction LLC · Struck against a moving object

EE was driving in the company vehicle and drove into a berm that was blocking a swell across the road. EE then drove over the berm which caused EE to drive the vehicle into the swell, which caused EE to "jar" their back.

2017 · 1 incident

November 10, 2017 FL · Metal/Non-Metal utility man, shift tech, service/dump truck operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Blue Goose Construction LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee slipped on step getting down from end dump truck and cut a finger.

2016 · 1 incident

November 3, 2016 FL · Metal/Non-Metal POWERED HAULAGE
Blue Goose Construction LLC · Accident type, without injuries

I was called on an incident from EE, the loader operator at 11:40. I went over to investigate. I asked if everyone was alright and they said they were fine. The dump truck drove the wrong way and ran into the loader as the loader was backing up. Asked why they went the wrong way and EE got offensive/called 911. Front end of dump truck was damaged/loader just scratched. No injuries.