Cave Quarries Inc has $31K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
1987–2019
Latest incident
Jan 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
201
citations
50
significant & substantial
$31,461
proposed penalties
$31,415
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $46 gap.
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.
201 citations across 1,707 inspection hours.
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: 2011-02-15.
On record since 2011.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
Cave Quarries Inc has $31K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$31K
proposed penalties
$31K
current assessed
$31K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
200 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $823 in penalties contested before the Commission, $777 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-10-11.
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.
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.
4citations taken to the federal commission · 2% of citations on record
Settled
4 · 100%
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 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$368 proposed, $368 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 2004-12-13.
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.
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: 2025-03-13
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
31
samples
20
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg11
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz8
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz7
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz5
Show the individual readings (31)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-03-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2025-03-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Scale Man
2025-03-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Nipper, Supply Man
2025-03-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Bulldozer Operator
2025-03-13
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.23
10
0.02
Front-end Loader Operator
2023-03-01
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
2.13
10
0.21
Mechanic
2023-03-01
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
2.31
10
0.23
Crusher Oper/Worker
2023-03-01
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
2.46
10
0.25
Truck Driver
2023-03-01
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.73
10
0.07
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2023-03-01
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.66
10
0.07
Front-end Loader Operator
2022-08-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Mechanic
2022-08-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2022-08-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Mechanic
2019-02-14
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2019-02-14
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.47
2.26
0.65
Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-02-14
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2016-11-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2016-11-16
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.13
10
0.01
Crusher Oper/Worker
2016-11-16
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
8.03
10
0.80
Truck Driver
2011-08-17
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.19
10
0.02
Truck Driver
2011-08-17
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
1.19
10
0.12
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2011-08-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-08-17
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.62
2.96
0.21
Truck Driver
2007-01-18
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.76
2.65
0.29
Truck Driver
2006-04-12
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.45
10
0.05
Truck Driver
2006-04-12
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.37
10
0.04
Truck Driver
2006-04-12
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
5.46
10
0.55
Truck Driver
2003-02-24
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.17
10
0.02
Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-02-24
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.66
2.47
0.27
Truck Loader
2002-02-07
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.21
10
0.02
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2002-02-07
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.33
2.4
0.14
Crusher Oper/Worker
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.
Cave Quarries Inc 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
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 Indiana, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.61 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
2019 *
5.36
5.36
0.000
2018 *
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
29
2025
21
2024
17
2023
18
2022
20
2021
20
2020
22
2019
17
2018
16
2017
15
2016
15
2015
15
2014
13
2013
14
2012
16
2011
15
2010
16
2009
16
2008
15
2007
16
2006
16
2005
14
2004
14
2003
14
2002
14
2001
13
2000
13
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Cave Quarries Inc sits in Orange County, Indiana, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Orange County, Indiana · Population 19,746
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$64,758
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
12,003
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
13,033
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
12,347
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
10,529
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
9,840
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
8,852
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
9,142
1
1
109.4
2024 Q3
8,929
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
8,404
2
1
238.0
2024 Q1
9,137
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
8,317
3
0
360.7
2023 Q3
9,465
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
9,532
2
0
209.8
2023 Q1
9,111
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
8,276
7
2
845.8
2022 Q3
9,385
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
10,012
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
10,179
2
1
196.5
2021 Q4
10,067
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
9,970
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
10,773
2
0
185.6
2021 Q1
10,547
2
0
189.6
2020 Q4
10,933
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
10,328
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
10,419
4
1
383.9
2020 Q1
11,357
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
9,728
3
1
308.4
2019 Q3
9,731
3
0
308.3
2019 Q2
9,196
6
0
652.5
2019 Q1
8,686
6
2
690.8
2018 Q4
10,355
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
10,045
3
0
298.7
2018 Q2
5,220
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
8,849
2
0
226.0
2017 Q4
9,089
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
8,761
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
9,116
3
1
329.1
2017 Q1
9,184
0
0
0.0
2016 Q4
9,553
4
3
418.7
2016 Q3
9,224
1
1
108.4
2016 Q2
8,171
0
0
0.0
2016 Q1
8,079
5
1
618.9
2015 Q4
8,407
0
0
0.0
2015 Q3
8,152
6
0
736.0
2015 Q2
8,212
0
0
0.0
2015 Q1
7,526
5
1
664.4
2014 Q4
7,612
0
0
0.0
2014 Q3
7,560
3
1
396.8
2014 Q2
7,662
0
0
0.0
2014 Q1
7,104
5
2
703.8
2013 Q4
8,367
0
0
0.0
2013 Q3
9,076
0
0
0.0
2013 Q2
8,624
4
1
463.8
2013 Q1
8,660
0
0
0.0
2012 Q4
9,839
5
1
508.2
2012 Q3
9,527
0
0
0.0
2012 Q2
9,527
7
1
734.8
2012 Q1
9,640
8
0
829.9
2011 Q4
9,415
0
0
0.0
2011 Q3
8,408
8
3
951.5
2011 Q2
7,982
0
0
0.0
2011 Q1
9,147
7
4
765.3
2010 Q4
8,258
0
0
0.0
2010 Q3
9,109
7
1
768.5
2010 Q2
9,654
0
0
0.0
2010 Q1
9,333
7
1
750.0
2009 Q4
9,074
0
0
0.0
2009 Q3
9,526
0
0
0.0
2009 Q2
9,846
0
0
0.0
2009 Q1
9,174
0
0
0.0
2008 Q4
8,473
0
0
0.0
2008 Q3
9,215
4
2
434.1
2008 Q2
9,247
0
0
0.0
2007 Q4
8,606
0
0
0.0
2007 Q3
9,123
0
0
0.0
2007 Q2
10,043
4
0
398.3
2007 Q1
10,205
4
0
392.0
2006 Q4
8,911
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
8,434
0
0
0.0
2006 Q2
9,655
3
1
310.7
2006 Q1
9,779
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
8,773
1
0
114.0
2005 Q3
8,815
2
1
226.9
2005 Q2
8,690
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
8,847
0
0
0.0
2004 Q4
8,245
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
7,879
9
3
1142.3
2004 Q2
9,476
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
9,209
4
2
434.4
2003 Q4
8,749
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
8,741
1
0
114.4
2003 Q2
8,637
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
9,240
3
1
324.7
2002 Q4
7,953
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
8,009
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
8,407
7
0
832.6
2002 Q1
7,841
2
0
255.1
2001 Q4
7,285
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
6,961
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
7,646
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
7,596
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
7,094
12
4
1691.6
2000 Q3
8,271
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
7,819
5
1
639.5
2000 Q1
7,237
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
7 on file
2019 · 1 incident
January 9, 2019IN · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
The miner was doing a plant startup when they noticed smoke from the screen tower. The miner proceeded toward the screen tower to inspect the problem and fell on loose material and injured their shoulder. Miner then went to the doctor and did an x-ray / MRI resulting in a torn rotary cuff.
2011 · 1 incident
March 22, 2011IN · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EE was stocking out material from a series of bins. EE was returning to his truck from the loading area, as he proceeded down a catwalk, three steps and onto level ground. He tore his quadriceps muscle as he was walking down the steps.
2010 · 1 incident
October 28, 2010IN · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EE was climbing into bed of triaxle, reaching on top of bed with hand. Lost grip and fell striking another truck, ground.
2004 · 1 incident
April 23, 2004IN · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cave Quarries Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PLACE A MOTOR SHIEVE IN PLACE FOR STORAGE. THE SHIEVE ROLLED AND SMASHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE SHIEVE AND TIRE RACK. THE FINGER REQUIRED STITCHES.
2000 · 1 incident
January 21, 2000IN · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
THE OUTSIDE TEMPERATURE WAS @ 20 DEGREE. THERE WAS SNOW AND ICE ON THE GROUND. AND ON THE EQUIPMENT. EE WAS EXITING THE SERVICE TRUCK WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED. HE FELL TO THE GROUND ONTO HIS HIP. THE DR DETERMINED THE ONLY INJURY WAS A FRACTURED HIP.
EMPL WAS HELPING TO CLEAR LARGE ROCK FROM FEEDER WITH CROW BAR WHEN HE CLAIMS HE HURT HIS BACK. THIS WAS NOT REPORTED TO ME UNTIL 1:40 PM ON 12/1/88. HE HAD SURGERY ON RUPTURED DISC IN LUMBA R REGION OF BACK ON 12/3/88. HE SHOULD BE ABLE TO COME BACK TO WORK IN ABOUT 6 TO 8 WEEKS.
1987 · 1 incident
July 17, 1987IN · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
I NAME CROUCHED3DOWN AT THE REAR OF THE EUCLID ROCK HAULER ADJUSTING THE BREAKES WHEN HIS RIGHT KNEE POPED. HE WAS N OT STRUCK BY THE EUCLID NOR DID H E STRIKE THE EUCLID. HIS KNEE POPED FROM HIS OWN WEIGHT 2NLY. DR IS GOING TO DO MICROSCOPIC SURGERY ON IT ON 8-27-87 TO REMOVE TORN CARTLIDGE HEHAS BEEN WORKING FULL TIME SINCE HE INJURED HIS KNEE AND WILL ONLY HAVE TO BE OFF ABOUT