Mining Incidents

East Brunswick: 13 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Christine H Yackman
E. Brunswick, Middlesex County, NJ  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2800522

East Brunswick has $1K 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
2
Years on record
1986–2006
Latest incident
Sep 2006
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
13
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,108
proposed penalties
$1,108
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
12
inspections on record
104
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: 104 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

East Brunswick has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
13 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-03-16.
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.
15.4%
significant & substantial
23.1%
high negligence or reckless
15.4%
reasonably likely or greater
38.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.7% low, 69.2% moderate, 23.1% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

East Brunswick recorded 9.18 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2006.

Injury rate, 2006
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.
9.18
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.41 and the all-US-mining average was 3.91 cases per 100 workers.
In New Jersey, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.63 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
2006 * 9.18 0.00 0.000
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
* 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. Herbert Sand Company Inc 1950 to 1996
  2. Pinnacle Materials Inc 1996 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2008 5
2007 8
2006 12
2005 17
2004 17
2003 13
2002 12
2001 10
2000 10
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

East Brunswick sits in Middlesex 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.
Middlesex County, New Jersey · Population 861,535
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$109,028
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
2008 Q1 2,517 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 3,215 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 3,269 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,260 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 4,453 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 4,588 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 5,226 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 6,155 0 0 0.0
Show 25 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q1 5,809 1 0 172.1
2005 Q4 7,052 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 10,089 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 9,188 2 0 217.7
2005 Q1 8,535 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 10,563 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 9,428 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 8,776 2 0 227.9
2004 Q1 8,686 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 7,651 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 6,804 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 6,720 1 0 148.8
2003 Q1 6,509 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 6,921 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 5,295 3 2 566.6
2002 Q2 5,224 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 4,830 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 5,421 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 5,302 4 0 754.4
2001 Q2 5,097 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 4,033 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 4,135 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 4,881 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 4,980 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 4,550 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2006 · 1 incident

September 20, 2006 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Pinnacle Materials Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

While placing a large glass panel into the dumpster, it slipped from his hand hitting the dumpster and breaking. A piece of glass sliced the arm an inch above the wrist on the underside of the arm.

1986 · 1 incident

April 30, 1986 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Herbert Sand Company Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE SPRAIN9D BACK WHILE LIFTING A HEAVY OBJECT.