Mining Incidents

Byers Quarry: 13 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Always Ready Crushed Stone, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Andrew L Bishop
Towanda, PA, Bradford County, PA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3610174

Byers Quarry has $2K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2016
13
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,803
proposed penalties
$1,803
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
9
inspections on record
99
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: 99 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Byers Quarry has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
13 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-25.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
15.4%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
46.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 38.5% low, 46.2% moderate, 15.4% 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: 2025-06-25
17%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
6
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz61 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2023-09-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.65 0.63 1.03 Shovel Operator
2025-06-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 0.56 0.59 Shovel Operator
2025-06-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 1.22 0.23 Bulldozer Operator
2025-06-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 0.45 0.62 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-09-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 1.03 0.25 Bulldozer Operator
2023-09-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2023-09-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.72 0.18 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.
Ownership history
  1. Always Ready Crushed Stone, Inc. 2016 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 1
2021 2
2020 1
2019 1
2018 1
2017 2
2016 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Byers Quarry sits in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 1.9% 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.
Bradford County, Pennsylvania · Population 59,971
1.9%
Mining share of county employment
$62,482
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 588 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 373 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 282 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 594 6 0 10101.0
2025 Q1 200 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 492 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 73 2 0 27397.3
Show 32 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 387 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 256 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 462 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 364 1 0 2747.3
2023 Q2 378 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 100 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 123 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 168 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 684 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 608 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 484 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 59 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 758 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 18 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 80 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 154 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 105 1 0 9523.8
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 59 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 130 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 313 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 430 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 700 3 0 4285.7

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.