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Cedar Ridge Quarries: 136 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Bill Bogle
Ozark, Franklin County, AR  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0301967

Cedar Ridge Quarries has $73K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 6 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
20
Years on record
2010–2014
Latest incident
Apr 2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
136
citations
45
significant & substantial
$72,803
proposed penalties
$49,917
paid to date
69% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $22,886 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Cedar Ridge Quarries's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
30
inspections on record
574
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: 574 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.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2012-07-17.
On record since 2012.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Cedar Ridge Quarries has $73K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 6 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.
$73K
proposed penalties
$50K
current assessed
$50K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
134 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
Of $39K in penalties contested before the Commission, $14K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-05-13.
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.
33.6%
significant & substantial
9.0%
high negligence or reckless
33.6%
reasonably likely or greater
54.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.7% none, 17.9% low, 72.4% moderate, 9.0% 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.
28 citations taken to the federal commission · 21% of citations on record
  • Settled 26 · 93%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 4%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 4%
45%
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 20 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
64%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$39K proposed, $14K 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 2013-10-17.
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
CENT 2011-1088M Settlement Lewis 2011 $15K → $9K
CENT 2013-250M Settlement Barbour 2013 $9K → $2K
CENT 2014-19M Settlement Lesnick 2014 $8K → $988
CENT 2012-266M Settlement Lesnick 2012 $4K → $1K
CENT 2013-394M Default Lesnick 2013 $1K → $1K
CENT 2011-56M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $873 → $100
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: 2013-12-03, 12 years ago
42%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
39
samples
33
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3314 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg6
Show the individual readings (39)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2013-10-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.42 0.23 1.83 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2012-11-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.81 0.55 1.47 Bobcat Operator
2012-07-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.97 0.29 3.34 Cutting Mach Operator
2011-08-31 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 0.31 1.06 Cutting Mach Helper
2011-07-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.92 0.31 2.97 Cutting Mach Helper
2011-07-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.81 0.29 2.79 Cutting Mach Helper
2011-07-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.7 0.34 2.06 Cutting Mach Helper
2011-05-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.63 0.41 1.54 Cutting Mach Helper
2011-05-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.24 0.29 4.28 Laborer, Bullgang
2011-05-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 3.81 0.58 6.57 Cutting Mach Helper
2011-05-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.92 0.37 2.49 Cutting Mach Helper
2009-07-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.39 0.21 1.86 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2009-06-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.8 0.32 2.50 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2009-04-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.69 0.3 2.30 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2013-12-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2013-10-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bobcat Operator
2013-10-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 1.93 0.12 Ball Mill Operator
2013-10-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.59 0.24 Bobcat Operator
2013-10-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.79 1.8 0.44 Cutting Mach Operator
2012-11-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.53 0.61 0.87 Ball Mill Operator
2012-11-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.63 0.32 Bobcat Operator
2012-11-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.36 0.54 0.67 Bobcat Operator
2012-11-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 0.48 0.65 Cutting Mach Operator
2012-08-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.38 0.83 0.46 Cutting Mach Operator
2012-07-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2012-07-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.75 1.38 0.54 Supervisor, Co. Official
2012-07-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 0.29 0.90 Laborer, Bullgang
2012-07-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 0.46 0.61 Forklift Operator
2011-08-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.28 0.71 Cutting Mach Helper
2011-08-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cutting Mach Helper
2011-07-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.36 0.42 0.86 Laborer, Bullgang
2011-05-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.56 0.59 0.95 Bobcat Operator
2010-02-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bobcat Operator
2010-02-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bobcat Operator
2009-09-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.56 0.36 Laborer, Bullgang
2009-09-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.23 0.87 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2009-09-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 0.84 0.37 Backhoe Operator
2009-09-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 0.41 0.54 Bobcat Operator
2009-04-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.37 1.08 0.34 Bobcat 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.

Cedar Ridge Quarries recorded 4.17 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2013.

Injury rate, 2013
ⓘ 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.
4.17
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.46 and the all-US-mining average was 2.99 cases per 100 workers.
In Arkansas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.35 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
2013 * 4.17 0.00 0.000
2012 * 6.49 6.49 0.000
2011 22.71 9.46 0.000
2010 * 7.18 7.18 0.000
2008 * 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. Cedar Ridge Quarries 2008 to 2009
  2. Cedar Ridge Quarries 2009 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2014 9
2013 21
2012 54
2011 65
2010 50
2009 18
2008 12
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Cedar Ridge Quarries sits in Franklin County, Arkansas, where the Census mining category is 0.9% 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.
Franklin County, Arkansas · Population 17,220
0.9%
Mining share of county employment
$51,919
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
2014 Q3 2,231 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,888 4 1 1028.8
2014 Q1 9,621 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 13,078 22 7 1682.2
2013 Q3 12,365 3 1 242.6
2013 Q2 11,384 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 11,156 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 13,658 6 1 439.3
Show 18 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2012 Q3 23,913 18 7 752.7
2012 Q2 30,739 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 24,100 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 27,618 2 2 72.4
2011 Q3 29,771 1 1 33.6
2011 Q2 24,970 15 5 600.7
2011 Q1 23,332 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 21,213 12 4 565.7
2010 Q3 27,207 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 21,621 2 0 92.5
2010 Q1 13,482 10 4 741.7
2009 Q4 11,979 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 9,898 19 8 1919.6
2009 Q1 5,635 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 8,340 4 0 479.6
2008 Q3 5,659 7 0 1237.0
2008 Q2 6,995 8 1 1143.7
2008 Q1 1,862 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

20 on file

2014 · 1 incident

April 16, 2014 AR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Struck against stationary object

Working in his area when scraped his left forearm on sharp edge of a rock

2013 · 1 incident

December 31, 2013 AR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Over-exertion in lifting objects

After getting off work he experienced some strain to his left elbow area and feels it must have been from stacking pavers 4" to 6" - waited until the next day to let the supervisor know.

2012 · 3 incidents

May 1, 2012 AR · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee lifting and pushing rock on chopper and rollers.

February 14, 2012 AR · Metal/Non-Metal pumper SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Fall to the walkway or working surface

While inside the office employee stopped to talk to supervisor; he backed up against a box and fell backwards. Employee tried to catch his fall hurting the back of his right hand; resulting in a hand sprain and hand fracture.

January 18, 2012 AR · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Struck by flying object

Horseplay; Rock was thrown resulting in damage to right eye.

2011 · 12 incidents

November 11, 2011 AR · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Struck by falling object

Employee was stacking slabs on pallet; had slab resting on pallet when slab slipped off and smashed top of right foot.

November 3, 2011 AR · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Struck by falling object

Employee was stacking slabs on pallet when he lost footing causing slab to fall on left leg.

November 3, 2011 AR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Struck by falling object

Employee was trying to pull out a rock that was hung on cage of tumbler; had right hand resting on cage when rock was free cage came down on the tip of middle finger on right hand.

September 29, 2011 AR · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Struck by falling object

Dropped rock on top of foot while trying to stack on pallet hitting left foot.

August 18, 2011 AR · Metal/Non-Metal pumper SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Cutting 4 x 4 and stacking them and he picked up about 3 of them at a time and tripped on a rock on the ground and the 4 x 4 landed on his hand bruising his left finger.

August 1, 2011 AR · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man MACHINERY
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Had his left hand on the table and the operator engaged the drive rollers and his hand was pulled in between the 2 rollers.

June 27, 2011 AR · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

He was stacking a rock of 2" and it slipped and mashed his 1st finger on his left hand. Just the tip of the finger.

May 26, 2011 AR · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer MACHINERY
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee reached in between the cutter teeth and table at the same time as a co-worker engaged the table. Employee's middle finger was pinched.

May 25, 2011 AR · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer MACHINERY
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee had his hand underneath a rock while it was being cut. The rock then mashed his right ring finger.

March 4, 2011 AR · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Struck against a moving object

EE was pulling rock, the rock jarred the Loader he was operating and it shifted and it forced him forward, where his right lower leg hit a metal object and cut his shin.

2010 · 3 incidents

October 23, 2010 AR · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer MACHINERY
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Struck by falling object

While chopping a 4 inch thick slab 4' long employee tried to keep it on the table but could not do so. He tried to get away from it as it rolled off table and it landed on right foot.

September 28, 2010 AR · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer MACHINERY
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Pulled groin muscle. Employee reported to his supervisor that he had pulled a groin muscle.

June 3, 2010 AR · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cedar Ridge Quarries · Struck by falling object

He was moving a step (stone) and lost his grip and the step fell on his right upper inner thigh.