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Delphi Quarry: 32 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by John Brumfield
Aberdeen, Thurston County, WA  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 4502946

Delphi Quarry has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1998–2025
Latest incident
May 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
32
citations
5
significant & substantial
$2,731
proposed penalties
$2,538
paid to date
93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $193 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Brumfield Construction, Inc.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
25
inspections on record
316
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: 316 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Delphi Quarry has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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
32 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $990 in penalties contested before the Commission, $737 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-05-11.
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.
15.6%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
15.6%
reasonably likely or greater
68.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 15.6% low, 84.4% moderate, 0.0% 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.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 3% of citations on record
  • Stood as issued 1 · 100%
100%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$60 proposed, $0 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 2006-12-21.
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
WEST20020419M Settlement Cetti 2002 $397 → $300
WEST20020105M Settlement Barbour 2002 $338 → $270
WEST 2003-350-M Settlement Lesnick 2003 $195 → $167
WEST 2007-152M Dismissal Barbour 2007 $60 → $0
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: 2005-05-19, 21 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2005-05-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-07-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.51 1.95 0.26 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.
Ownership history
  1. Tom Martin Construction Inc 1981 to 1998
  2. Jkh Investments Inc 1985 to 1988
  3. Cascade Sand & Gravel Inc 1998 to 2003
  4. Quality Rock Products Inc 2003 to 2021
  5. Brumfield Construction, Inc. 2021 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 0
2025 1
2024 2
2023 4
2022 4
2021 4
2013 0
2012 0
2011 3
2010 0
2009 1
2008 2
2007 2
2006 1
2005 1
2004 4
2003 1
2002 2
2001 5
2000 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Delphi Quarry sits in Thurston County, Washington, 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.
Thurston County, Washington · Population 296,640
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$93,985
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 0 0 0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 0 0 0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 350 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
Show 66 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 113 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,870 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 332 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,186 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,349 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,408 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,850 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,715 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,969 1 0 336.8
2022 Q1 1,696 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,568 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 842 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 692 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 0 0 0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q2 0 0 0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 370 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 514 3 0 5836.6
2011 Q2 605 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 306 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 0 0 0
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 4 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 21 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 23 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 253 8 0 31620.6
2008 Q4 509 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 610 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 745 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 672 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 827 1 0 1209.2
2007 Q3 857 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 723 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 617 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 33 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 0 0 0
2006 Q2 4 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 332 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,021 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 182 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 308 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,693 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 2,314 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,620 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,072 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 975 1 0 1025.6
2003 Q3 675 1 1 1481.5
2003 Q2 326 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 398 2 1 5025.1
2002 Q4 792 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,063 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,137 6 1 5277.0
2002 Q1 1,250 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,332 2 0 1501.5
2001 Q3 1,120 4 1 3571.4
2001 Q2 1,100 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 4,780 2 0 418.4
2000 Q4 1,216 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,560 1 1 641.0
2000 Q2 1,280 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,100 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2025 · 1 incident

May 16, 2025 WA · Metal/Non-Metal crusher attendant/operator, pan feeder operator/worker HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Brumfield Construction, Inc. · Struck by flying object

The crew was laying 2" poly pipe, the end slipped, striking the miner in the face below right cheek bone. Employee refused treatment at the time of the incident. Several hours later it started to swell. Employee went to the emergency room Sunday (5/18/2025) as the swelling in the cheek would not subside. It was reported to me that employee suffered from a fractured cheek bone.

1998 · 1 incident

October 23, 1998 WA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Cascade Sand & Gravel Inc · Fall from machine

OPERATOR BACKED UP HILL THEN HE KILLED ENGINE & HE CLUCHED TRANSMISSION WITH LEFT BRAKE,CAUSING LOADER TO ROLL FORWARD & HE JUMPED OUT