Mining Incidents

Edgewood Aggregates LLC: 28 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Edgewood, Santa Fe County, NM  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2902303

Edgewood Aggregates LLC has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2007–2009
Latest incident
Feb 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
28
citations
11
significant & substantial
$4,101
proposed penalties
$660
paid to date
16% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,441 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
30
inspections on record
291
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: 291 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Edgewood Aggregates LLC has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 3 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$660
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
27 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-06-21.
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.
40.7%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
40.7%
reasonably likely or greater
77.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 18.5% low, 81.5% 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.
8 citations taken to the federal commission · 29% of citations on record
  • Settled 7 · 88%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 13%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 7 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
42%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2K proposed, $1K 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 2009-07-15.
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
CENT 2008-754M Settlement Paez 2010 $2K → $763
CENT 2009-597M Default Lesnick 2011 $285 → $285
CENT 2008-755M Settlement Paez 2010 $100 → $100
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: 2008-05-14, 18 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
3
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2008-05-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 1.1 0.23 Crusher Oper/Worker
2008-05-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 1.25 0.14 Laborer, Bullgang
2008-05-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 0.75 0.32 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. Edgewood Aggregates LLC 2006 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2010 3
2009 7
2008 8
2007 7
2006 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Edgewood Aggregates LLC sits in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, 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.
Santa Fe County, New Mexico · Population 155,175
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$74,689
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
2010 Q1 226 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 2,790 2 0 716.8
2009 Q3 3,956 5 2 1263.9
2009 Q2 3,840 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 3,084 3 3 972.8
2008 Q4 4,111 5 0 1216.2
2008 Q3 4,260 1 0 234.7
2008 Q2 4,140 7 6 1690.8
Show 9 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q1 3,850 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 4,623 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 3,592 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,052 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 3,841 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,206 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 3,234 1 0 309.2
2006 Q2 2,416 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,987 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2009 · 1 incident

February 24, 2009 NM · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Edgewood Aggregates LLC · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was inspecting the Cone. As he was climbing down the ladder, he fell over head first into the adjacent conveyor belt. He had gotten dizzy other time(s) that day. Initial diagnosis was that he had had a stroke which may have contributed to the dizziness.

2008 · 1 incident

March 15, 2008 NM · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Edgewood Aggregates LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The injured EE was freeing some rocks stuck in crusher jaw with a digging bar. When they were freed the rocks fell downward, striking the digging bar and catching the tip of the left pinkie finger between the digging bar the the jaw safety platform. The EE fractured and lacerated the tip of his finger.

2007 · 1 incident

October 30, 2007 NM · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Edgewood Aggregates LLC · Fall from machine

EE was at the bottom of the open pit quarry. He climbed up ladder of cat 980f loader, to speak with the operator, other ee. Upon climbing down, he stated he stepped on a loose rock, lost his balance and fell down. When he got up he complained og pain in his right ankle. x-rays-sprain of calcaneofilular and fracture ankle 4-6 weeks pending on light duty.