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: 412 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Emigsville Quarry has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
39 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-11-04.
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: 2015-11-04, 10 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
10
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz4
Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (10)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2015-11-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Bulldozer Operator
2015-11-04
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.17
Front-end Loader Operator
2008-12-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2008-12-10
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.22
10
0.02
Cleanup Man
2007-09-06
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.28
10
0.03
Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-09-06
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.17
10
0.02
Laborer, Bullgang
2007-09-06
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.32
10
0.03
Laborer, Bullgang
2004-09-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.33
0.73
0.45
Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-09-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2004-09-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
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.
Emigsville Quarry recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2009.
Injury rate, 2009
ⓘ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 2.82 and the all-US-mining average was 3.36 cases per 100 workers.
In Pennsylvania, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.60 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
2009 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2008 *
10.25
0.00
0.000
2007 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2006 *
13.86
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2017
2
2016
3
2015
4
2014
4
2012
2
2011
4
2010
9
2009
11
2008
17
2007
17
2006
13
2005
12
2004
5
2003
1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Emigsville Quarry sits in York County, Pennsylvania, 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.
York County, Pennsylvania · Population 459,312
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$82,238
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
Driving haul truck out of bottom level when the truck started to lose traction and slip backwards. The driver lost control and the truck rolled backwards, impacting the high wall. The bed of the truck was damaged and the drivers head broke the back window. The driver required staples to close a cut on his head.
April 26, 2010PA · Metal/Non-Metalcrane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, riggerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Employee complained of pain in elbow and required medical treatment. Employee is unsure exactly what happened other than he thinks he hit his elbow a couple of times recently while cleaning up around the plant.
May 17, 2006PA · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Employee was perfoming housekeeping operations around a guard shoveling material and caught his finger on the guard causing a laceration to his ring finger on his left hand.
April 1, 2006PA · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanMACHINERY
Employee was using a cut-off saw to cut a piece of channel conveyor support. The saw kicked back and hit employee in the chin resulting in a laceration. The cut needed approximately 20 stitches
2005 · 1 incident
October 4, 2005PA · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSTEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
An employee stepped on a rock while walking on a catwalk next to the primary crusher. He twisted his knee and dislocated his kneecap. He was taken to the doctor for treatment.
2004 · 2 incidents
November 16, 2004PA · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSTEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Employee was picking up timbers (used for a crane's outrigger cribbing) and loading them onto the back of a truck. His right hand slipped while putting one of the timbers down causing him to drop the timber crushing his left little finger between the timber and the truck trailer.