BRAEN STONE OF WHITEHALL has $4K 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
2017
Latest incident
May 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
30
citations
9
significant & substantial
$4,240
proposed penalties
$4,240
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
24
inspections on record
304
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: 304 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: 2016-05-24.
On record since 2016.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
BRAEN STONE OF WHITEHALL has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
28 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-03-21.
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.
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: 2024-09-25
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
13
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg9
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (13)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2024-09-25
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Shovel Operator
2024-09-25
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2022-09-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2022-09-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2017-06-01
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.29
0.87
0.33
Backhoe Operator
2017-06-01
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.44
0.58
0.76
Cleanup Man
2017-06-01
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2016-08-11
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz
4.86
Laborer, Bullgang
2016-08-11
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.27
0.57
0.47
Laborer, Bullgang
2016-08-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2015-05-12
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2015-05-12
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2015-05-12
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
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.
BRAEN STONE OF WHITEHALL recorded 8.53 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2017.
Injury rate, 2017
ⓘ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.
8.53
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.99 and the all-US-mining average was 2.48 cases per 100 workers.
In New York, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.59 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
2017 *
8.53
0.00
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
7
2025
5
2024
4
2023
4
2022
2
2019
1
2018
6
2017
9
2016
10
2015
4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
BRAEN STONE OF WHITEHALL sits in Washington County, New York, 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.
Washington County, New York · Population 60,883
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$72,342
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
3,385
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
2,049
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
2,674
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
2,662
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
3,145
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
4,992
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
4,363
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
3,651
0
0
0.0
Show 25 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
1,650
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
2,031
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
3,415
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
3,130
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
2,709
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
1,018
1
0
982.3
2022 Q4
1,686
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
1,200
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
0
0
0
2019 Q1
80
0
0
0.0
2018 Q4
3,734
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
5,070
0
0
0.0
2018 Q2
2,246
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
717
0
0
0.0
2017 Q4
2,969
1
0
336.8
2017 Q3
4,503
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
11,116
7
2
629.7
2017 Q1
4,849
0
0
0.0
2016 Q4
9,142
8
6
875.1
2016 Q3
7,179
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
3,665
4
1
1091.4
2016 Q1
962
0
0
0.0
2015 Q4
2,550
0
0
0.0
2015 Q3
2,734
0
0
0.0
2015 Q2
3,120
6
0
1923.1
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2017 · 1 incident
May 26, 2017NY · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerMACHINERY
Employee was breaking stone down when pieces of stone came through the screen and hit employee's cheek and a piece of stone got behind the employee's safety glasses and in eye.