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: 225 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Clifton Quarry has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
38 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-01-12.
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.
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: 2002-04-11, 24 years ago
7
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz2
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (7)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2002-04-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-04-11
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.4
Diamond Drill Operator
2002-04-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-04-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-04-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2000-07-13
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz
0.23
Crusher Oper/Worker
2000-07-13
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz
0.16
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.
Clifton Quarry recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2005.
Injury rate, 2005
ⓘ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 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.21 cases per 100 workers.
In New Jersey, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.91 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
2005 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2004 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2003 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2002 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2001 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2000 *
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
2006
13
2005
14
2004
15
2003
14
2002
23
2001
24
2000
22
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Clifton Quarry sits in Passaic County, New Jersey, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Passaic County, New Jersey · Population 518,289
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$87,137
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
2006 Q1
7,940
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
11,133
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
8,238
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
8,177
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
5,710
2
1
350.3
2004 Q4
9,179
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
8,347
0
0
0.0
2004 Q2
9,109
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2004 Q1
8,328
2
0
240.2
2003 Q4
9,374
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
9,688
0
0
0.0
2003 Q2
4,960
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
4,382
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
10,114
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
12,205
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
14,556
7
1
480.9
2002 Q1
11,713
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
18,112
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
18,719
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
18,626
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
12,600
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
13,610
4
0
293.9
2000 Q3
10,271
7
2
681.5
2000 Q2
11,925
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
11,735
1
0
85.2
Fatalities at this mine
1 recorded
December 8, 1995NJ · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorFatality · ELECTRICAL
THE VICTIM WAS FOUND SLUMPED OVER ON THE WALKWAY OUTSIDE OF THE CRUSHER CONTROL BOOTH. THE MEDICAL EXAMINER S REPORT INDICATED THAT THE VICTIM HAD BEEN ELECTROCUTED. AN EE WHO WENT TO ASSIST H IM ALSO RECEIVED AN ELECTRICAL SHOCK AND WAS SENT TO THE HOSPITAL FOR OBSERVATION. THE SPECIFIC SOURCE OF THE ACCIDENT HAS YET TO BE DETERMINED.
Reportable incidents
17 on file (excluding fatalities above)
2004 · 1 incident
April 22, 2004NJ · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
WAS INSTALLING EXHAUST STACK ON OUTSIDE OF GENERATOR VAN TRAILER. WHILE REACHING FOR IMPACT GUN, EXHAUST SLIPPED AND HIS MOVEMENT TO CATCH EXHAUST MADE LADDER SLIP. HE WAS STANDING AT 6' LEVEL OF LADDER.
1999 · 1 incident
December 2, 1999NJ · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorPOWERED HAULAGE
A 58.5 POUND ROCK MEASURING 10 1/2"X9 1/2" ROLLED OFF OF #1 CONVEYOR APPROX. 9 FT FROM GROUND STRIKING EE IN THE BACK OF HIS HARD HAT. EE SUSTAINED A MILD CONCUSION.
1998 · 1 incident
October 14, 1998NJ · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
I WAS DRIVING MY EUCLID TRUCK WHEN I.NAME CALLED FOR HELP. I EXITED MY TRUCK, RAN TO AREA OF ACCIDENT AND GRABBED THE RAILING WHEN I FELT A SHOCK GO THROUGH MY CHEST AND NECK. I HAD BURNED MY LEFT SHOULDER AND HAVE PAIN IN MY LOWER BACK.
December 8, 1995NJ · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanOTHER
EE WAS DRIVING UP HILL TO EE PARKING LOADER UPS TRAVELING DOWN HILL. HILLS WERE FULL OF SNOW ;PALOADER MAN STATED LOADER STALLED COULD NOT STOP AN HIT EE CAR ON RIGHT SIDE FLIPPING CAR ON ITS LEFT SIDE. THE LOADER WAS REMOVING THE SNOW FROMTHE HILL.
1993 · 1 incident
July 23, 1993NJ · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanPOWERED HAULAGE
DRIVER BACK ON CRUSHER SURGE PILE & TURNED TO THE PASSENGER SIDE OF THE DUMP TRUCK RUNNING THROUGH A 21/2FT STONE BURM AT THIS TIME THE TRUCK ROLLED OVER & CRUSHED THE CONVEYOR BELOW IT
1991 · 1 incident
April 1, 1991NJ · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
WHILE LIFTING COMPRESSOR, STRAINED BACK, REQUIRING TREATMENT. NO LOST TIME.
1986 · 2 incidents
December 31, 1986NJ · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 LIFTING A (T-OXYGEN TANK) FROM THE GROUND TO A POSITION ABOUT 3' FROM THE GROUND. SLIGHT BACK DISCOMFORT AT THE TIME-MORE PAIN AND STIFFNESS NEXT DAY.
July 29, 1986NJ · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
A CRANE WAS POS3TIONED AT THE REAR OF A TAMDEM DUMP TRUCK. A 1 1/4" CABLE WAS WRAPPED AROUND THE FRONT OF THE RAISED BODY AND ATTACHED TO THE CRANE HOOK AS A SECOND SAFETY PRECAUTION. THE FIRS T BEING A STEEL3PROP. THE CRANE HOOK DISCONNECTED FROM ONE END OF THE CABLE & REMAINED IN A VERTICLE POSITION IN ORDER CORRECT THE SITUATION, THE EMPLOYEE GOT A LADDER, AT THAT TIME THE CABL
1985 · 3 incidents
December 3, 1985NJ · Metal/Non-Metalbeltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor riderHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
2 EES WORKING O3 THE TOP OF SCREEN DECK ATTEMPTING TO LOOSEN FROZEN MATERIAL WITH BAR & SLEDGE HAMMER. INJURED EE WAS STUCK WITH SLEDGE HAMMER OUTSIDE RIGHT KNEE WHEN OTHER EE MISSED WITH HAM MER. 3
September 3, 1985NJ · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
MECHANIC WAS WORKING ON CABLE SPOOL OF MACHINE. PLATFORM AREA IS 3X 4 FOR SOME REASON. THE MECHANIC BECAME DISORIENTED AND FELL FROM MACHINE TO GROUND ABOUT 9\
April 3, 1985NJ · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING TO AREA ABOVE CRUSHER WITH SHOVEL IN HAND HIS FOOT CAME IN CONTACT WITH A GREASE SPOT EMPLOYEE TUMBER AND FELL AGAINST A RAILING.
April 19, 1984NJ · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
THE EMPLOYEE WAS BACKING A 35 TON EUCLID SINGLE AXLE, DUMP TRUCK ONTO THE 1 1/2" STONE PILE WHICH WAS ABOUT 5 X 5\ HIGH ON THE END, 60\ WIDE ANDGRADUALLY SLOPED. AS HE GOTTO THE MIDDLE OF THE PILE HE ATTEMPTED TO DUMP OFF THE SIDE OF THE PILE INSTEAD OF THE END. THE RIGHT REAR WHEEL SUNK IN THE MATERIAL CAUSING THE LOADED TRUCK TO TIP ON ON ITS SIDE.