Mining Incidents

Brooklyn Limestone: 86 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

C. R. Pate Logging Co Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Josh R Pate
Evergreen, Conecuh County, AL  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0103452

Brooklyn Limestone has $61K in proposed MSHA penalties and $401 outstanding across 3 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 2012
86
citations
30
significant & substantial
$61,002
proposed penalties
$57,592
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,410 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
39
inspections on record
536
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: 536 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Brooklyn Limestone has $61K in proposed MSHA penalties and $401 outstanding across 3 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.
$61K
proposed penalties
$58K
current assessed
$58K
paid to date
$401
outstanding
86 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $34K in penalties contested before the Commission, $31K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-18.
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.
34.9%
significant & substantial
25.6%
high negligence or reckless
34.9%
reasonably likely or greater
58.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 14.0% low, 60.5% moderate, 25.6% 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.
13 citations taken to the federal commission · 15% of citations on record
  • Settled 12 · 92%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 8%
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 10 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
9%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$34K proposed, $31K 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 2013-06-13.
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 2013-394M Settlement Miller 2013 $30K → $27K
SE 2013-460M Dismissal Miller 2013 $2K → $2K
SE 2013-456M Settlement Miller 2013 $2K → $2K
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: 2026-08-24
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
11
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg9
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (11)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-08-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2026-08-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2026-08-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2019-01-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-01-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-01-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2019-01-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2015-05-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2015-05-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2015-05-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.27 2.35 0.11 Backhoe Operator
2015-05-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.93 0.17 Truck Driver
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.

Brooklyn Limestone recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2022.

Injury rate, 2022
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 1.78 and the all-US-mining average was 2.12 cases per 100 workers.
In Alabama, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.25 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
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2017 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2016 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2015 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2014 * 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. C. R. Pate Logging Co Inc. 2010 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 24
2025 9
2024 2
2023 4
2022 18
2021 20
2020 21
2019 20
2018 19
2017 18
2016 17
2015 14
2014 11
2013 9
2012 7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Brooklyn Limestone sits in Conecuh County, Alabama, 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.
Conecuh County, Alabama · Population 11,411
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$42,266
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 10,556 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 10,078 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 10,033 2 1 199.3
2025 Q3 784 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 672 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 624 1 0 1602.6
2024 Q4 468 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 468 0 0 0.0
Show 48 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 504 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 584 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,483 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 7,477 1 1 133.7
2022 Q3 8,355 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 11,292 1 0 88.6
2022 Q1 10,913 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 12,630 2 1 158.4
2021 Q3 10,791 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 10,688 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 9,780 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 12,252 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 9,357 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 11,028 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 9,605 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 10,442 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 10,923 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 9,743 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 8,927 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 10,486 2 1 190.7
2018 Q2 9,424 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 7,771 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 7,645 2 1 261.6
2017 Q3 7,736 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 8,771 4 0 456.0
2017 Q1 10,237 1 0 97.7
2016 Q4 9,293 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 9,214 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 9,166 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 8,883 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 6,839 3 0 438.7
2015 Q3 7,151 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 7,437 5 1 672.3
2015 Q1 7,183 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 8,284 4 2 482.9
2014 Q3 7,909 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 5,813 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,718 12 1 6984.9
2013 Q4 4,059 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 4,567 2 1 437.9
2013 Q2 4,562 1 1 219.2
2013 Q1 4,969 9 6 1811.2
2012 Q4 4,436 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 3,742 30 13 8017.1
2012 Q2 2,752 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 2,885 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.