Mining Incidents

Coots Gravel Pit: 6 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

S T Coots LLC · Surface
Controlled by Steve T Coots
Bath, Steuben County, NY  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3003963

Coots Gravel Pit has $930 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 2017
6
citations
1
significant & substantial
$930
proposed penalties
$930
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
12
inspections on record
126
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: 126 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Coots Gravel Pit has $930 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.
$930
proposed penalties
$930
current assessed
$930
paid to date
$0
outstanding
6 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-03-15.
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.
16.7%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
16.7%
reasonably likely or greater
16.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 66.7% low, 33.3% 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: 2025-10-15
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-10-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-10-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-05-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-05-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.33 0.42 Front-end Loader 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.
Ownership history
  1. S T Coots LLC 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 3
2024 4
2023 4
2022 4
2021 5
2020 5
2019 5
2018 5
2017 4
2016 4
2015 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Coots Gravel Pit sits in Steuben County, New York, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Steuben County, New York · Population 93,034
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$64,740
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 1,340 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 482 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 1,285 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,445 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,504 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 597 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,339 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,322 0 0 0.0
Show 36 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,257 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,030 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,329 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,362 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,449 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 910 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,259 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,493 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,403 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 475 2 0 4210.5
2021 Q4 1,034 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,723 1 1 580.4
2021 Q2 1,309 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 466 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 736 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,041 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,568 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 371 2 0 5390.8
2019 Q4 534 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,000 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 736 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 135 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 611 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 802 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 556 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 151 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 135 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 573 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 652 1 0 1533.7
2017 Q1 175 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 355 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 591 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 452 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 165 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 373 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 42 0 0 0.0

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.