Mining Incidents

Cascades Cut Stone Company: 4 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Vanlue, Hancock County, OH  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3304567

Cascades Cut Stone Company has $240 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
3
Years on record
2006–2008
Latest incident
Sep 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
4
citations
0
significant & substantial
$240
proposed penalties
$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 2006
13
inspections on record
111
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: 111 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Cascades Cut Stone Company has $240 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.
$240
proposed penalties
$240
current assessed
$240
paid to date
$0
outstanding
4 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-08-08.
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
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
75.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% 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: 2006-08-08, 20 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz4
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (5)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2006-08-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 1.41 0.15 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2006-08-08 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 2.03 10 0.20 Laborer, Bullgang
2006-08-08 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 4.18 10 0.42 Laborer, Bullgang
2006-08-08 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 8.94 10 0.89 Laborer, Bullgang
2006-08-08 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 3.98 10 0.40 Utility Man
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. Cascades Cut Stone Company 2006 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2011 1
2010 1
2009 1
2008 3
2007 7
2006 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Cascades Cut Stone Company sits in Hancock County, Ohio, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Hancock County, Ohio · Population 74,885
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$69,699
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
2011 Q2 342 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 272 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 543 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 543 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 272 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 543 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 543 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 543 0 0 0.0
Show 13 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2009 Q2 543 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 543 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,687 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 2,308 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,254 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 543 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 2,032 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,070 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 5,027 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 4,312 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 4,799 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 3,467 4 0 1153.7
2006 Q2 1,943 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2008 · 1 incident

September 23, 2008 OH · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cascades Cut Stone Company · Struck by falling object

While stacking stone on a pallet, a rock came off the stack and struck his foot.

2007 · 1 incident

April 4, 2007 OH · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cascades Cut Stone Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee injured his back while repeatedly lifting flagstone to the splitter conveyor.

2006 · 1 incident

August 29, 2006 OH · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cascades Cut Stone Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee pinched finger betwen two rocks while stacking landscape stone. Injury was an avulsion of the right ring finger.