Blue Stone Sand & Gravel, Inc. has $7K 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
6
Years on record
1998–2000
Latest incident
Sep 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
29
citations
10
significant & substantial
$6,639
proposed penalties
$3,539
paid to date
53% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,100 gap.
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: 142 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Blue Stone Sand & Gravel, Inc. has $7K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
29 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-04-06.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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.
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: 2002-05-01, 24 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2002-05-01
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.24
1.42
0.17
Front-end Loader Operator
2002-05-01
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.19
1.03
0.18
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2004
1
2003
5
2002
5
2001
4
2000
6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Blue Stone Sand & Gravel, Inc. sits in Portage County, Ohio, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Portage County, Ohio · Population 161,421
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$72,822
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
2004 Q2
936
1
0
1068.4
2004 Q1
0
0
0
2003 Q4
180
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
3,788
0
0
0.0
2003 Q2
2,416
2
2
827.8
2003 Q1
1,022
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
2,170
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
3,205
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2002 Q2
2,061
2
0
970.4
2002 Q1
594
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
1,630
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
2,645
8
3
3024.6
2001 Q2
2,764
14
5
5065.1
2001 Q1
1,094
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
3,821
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
3,575
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
3,602
2
0
555.2
2000 Q1
120
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
6 on file
2000 · 1 incident
September 14, 2000OH · Metal/Non-Metalminer, necMACHINERY
EE WAS WORKING WITH ANOTHER MAN WHO WAS WELDING HE SAID THAT WHILE HE WAS WORKING ON SOME BOLTS HE GOT A FLASH THAT BOUNDED OFF HIS GLASSES. WHEN HE GOT HOME THAT EVENING HIS EYES WERE BOTHERI NG HIM SO HE WENT TO THE HOSPITAL DIAGNOSIS: ULTRAVIOLET KERENTITIS
1999 · 2 incidents
August 23, 1999OH · Metal/Non-Metalmine manager, mine foreman, mine ownerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE WAS BRADING A PULL CABLE WHEN HE STARTED TO HAVEING CHEST PAINS & SHORT OF BREATH. HE WENT TOTHE HOSP LATER THAT DAY & THEY TOLD EE HE HAD A HEART ATTACK
THE SEAT IN THE R-22 EUK HAS A SPRING LOADED MOUNT. THE BACKOF THE SEAT GOT STUCK UNDER A BRACE ON THE BACKOF THE CAB. WHEN HE HIT A BUMP THE SEAT BOUNCED UP CAUSING EE TO HIT HIS BACK O N THE BACKOF THE SEAT
October 20, 1998OH · Metal/Non-Metalclerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of salesHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE WAS SHOVELING WET SAND NEXT TO PLANT WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK. EE SAID HE HAD PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK & LEFT LEG. I WAS TOLD AT THE TIME OF THEIS INCIDENT THAT NO CLAIM WOULD BE FILED DUE T O PRIOR PROBLEM. EE HAD THE SAME PROBLEM ABOUT 2 YRS AGO