Daurity Springs Quarry has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $348 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2020–2022
Latest incident
Aug 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
42
citations
6
significant & substantial
$6,854
proposed penalties
$6,506
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $348 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.
Rate withheld: 359 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Daurity Springs Quarry has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $348 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$348
outstanding
41 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-03.
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: 2025-11-04
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
28
samples
9
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz17
Respirable dust, <.1mg11
Show the individual readings (28)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-11-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2025-11-04
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.13
Utility Man
2025-11-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2024-02-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2024-02-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2024-02-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.13
Utility Man
2024-02-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2024-02-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.3
0.91
0.33
Lab Technician
2023-05-31
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.16
0.38
0.42
Lab Technician
2023-05-31
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.64
Utility Man
2023-05-31
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.13
0.73
0.18
Utility Man
2023-05-31
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.17
Utility Man
2023-05-31
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.13
Utility Man
2022-03-29
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.31
0.8
0.39
Utility Man
2022-03-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Bulldozer Operator
2022-03-29
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.22
Truck Driver
2022-03-29
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.3
0.75
0.40
Utility Man
2022-03-29
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.12
Truck Driver
2021-08-31
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Bulldozer Operator
2021-08-31
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.53
0.82
0.65
Utility Man
2021-08-31
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.67
0.7
0.96
Utility Man
2021-08-31
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.21
0.74
0.28
Sampler, Dust
2021-08-31
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.25
0.72
0.35
Backhoe Operator
2020-06-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2020-06-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Drill Operator, Rotary
2020-06-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2020-06-03
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.2
Utility Man
2020-06-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe 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.
Daurity Springs Quarry 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 North Carolina, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.14 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 *
14.54
4.85
0.000
2021 *
9.77
9.77
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
13
2025
14
2024
16
2023
17
2022
19
2021
18
2020
12
2019
6
2018
1
2017
5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Daurity Springs Quarry sits in Chatham County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Chatham County, North Carolina · Population 78,319
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$88,534
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
Employee was filling the water truck when the flexible hose got stuck on the fill pipe. Employee pulled the pipe and it released suddenly striking them in the upper lip causing a small laceration and chipped tooth.
June 1, 2022NC · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techPOWERED HAULAGE
EE was operating the skid steer when a rock came over the bucket and shattered the windshield. The rock landed in EE's lap and a small piece of glass got behind EE's safety glasses and into left eye. EE used bottled water to flush out the eye and was sent to urgent care where they flushed the eye and confirmed that it was scratched, EE was prescribed an antibiotic ointment.
February 23, 2022NC · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Miner was climbing into a skid steer. Miner's boots were muddy from the rain. Miner slipped & struck right knee on the bucket of the skid steer. The initial pain did not subside, miner was sent to be evaluated. The miner was seen at a local urgent care. X-ray showed no broken bones. Miner has tenderness & restricted motion. Restrictions given for walking, bending & lifting.
2021 · 2 incidents
November 19, 2021NC · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
On Friday, November 19, 2021 sometime between 8-10am EE was welding and grinding at the quarry plant. EE was grinding a spot for my ground for the welder. EE welded 2 bolts to put up a piece of rubber. EE felt like there was something in EE's left eye, but was not able to see anything. Saturday morning, EE woke up with a blood shot and swollen left eye.
March 4, 2021NC · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
On 3.4.2021 employee was turning around to change the direction employee was traveling by foot and stumbled from ground level and landed on left shoulder. Employee was released for full duty 3.4.2021. Left shoulder has been irritating employee and employee returned to Doctor on 3.29.2021 and was then placed on restricted work duty.
2020 · 1 incident
January 27, 2020NC · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerMACHINERY
Employee was operating a CAT D6 Dozer pushing off a dump site. At the end of shift, EE complained that back was hurting. EE was diagnosed with a thoracic sprain and strain of the back.
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