Mining Incidents

Broad River: 40 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Elberton, Elbert County, GA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0901225

Broad River has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $275 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
40
citations
13
significant & substantial
$14,087
proposed penalties
$13,812
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $275 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2013
33
inspections on record
535
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: 535 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.
2
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2020-07-09.
On record since 2015.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Broad River has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $275 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.
$14K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$14K
paid to date
$275
outstanding
38 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-02-22.
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.
34.2%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
34.2%
reasonably likely or greater
68.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 2.6% low, 97.4% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2026-06-30
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
29
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg17
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz8
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz4
Show the individual readings (29)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-06-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2026-06-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2026-06-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2026-06-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2026-06-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-06-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.27 2.56 0.50 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-06-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-06-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.47 1.18 0.40 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-06-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 Truck Driver
2023-09-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2023-09-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2023-09-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2021-08-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2021-08-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2021-08-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 Utility Man
2021-08-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 Truck Driver
2019-10-23 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.21 Truck Driver
2019-10-23 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.39 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-10-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2017-10-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.69 0.22 Utility Man
2017-10-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2016-10-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-10-25 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 Dragline Operator
2016-10-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 1.32 0.11 Cleanup Man
2016-10-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-04-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-04-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Track Man/Gang
2016-04-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.33 0.55 Supervisor, Co. Official
2014-04-23 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.21 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.

Broad River 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
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
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 Georgia, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.20 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
* 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. Broad River Crushed Stone, LLC 2014 to 2017
  2. Georgia Stone Products, LLC 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 22
2025 19
2024 17
2023 14
2022 12
2021 13
2020 13
2019 7
2018 5
2017 5
2016 3
2015 2
2014 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Broad River sits in Elbert County, Georgia, where the Census mining category is 2.7% 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.
Elbert County, Georgia · Population 19,725
2.7%
Mining share of county employment
$49,727
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 15,161 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 15,213 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 9,968 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 11,344 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 10,756 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 9,458 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 10,737 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 11,128 0 0 0.0
Show 41 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 10,657 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 9,752 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 8,434 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 10,113 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 9,674 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 10,052 1 0 99.5
2022 Q4 10,401 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 9,808 1 0 102.0
2022 Q2 7,974 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 7,527 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 8,376 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 10,167 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 10,137 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 8,699 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 8,065 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 8,387 3 2 357.7
2020 Q2 6,336 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 5,402 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 4,913 1 0 203.5
2019 Q3 4,943 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 3,278 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 3,179 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 2,265 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,403 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 3,001 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 2,867 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 4,589 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,668 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,100 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,100 3 0 2727.3
2016 Q3 1,100 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,100 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 650 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 700 5 3 7142.9
2015 Q3 700 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 700 1 0 1428.6
2015 Q1 700 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 700 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 800 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 800 1 0 1250.0
2014 Q1 400 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.