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: 689 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘA Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2014-02-07.
On record since 2014.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
Endsley Quarry has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$22K
proposed penalties
$21K
current assessed
$21K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
139 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $2K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-05-20.
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.
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.
6citations taken to the federal commission · 4% of citations on record
Settled
2 · 33%
Stood as issued
1 · 17%
Vacated or withdrawn
3 · 50%
0%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
42%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1K proposed, $592 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 2010-08-31.
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.
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: 2013-04-24, 13 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
15
samples
9
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg6
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz5
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
Show the individual readings (15)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2013-04-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cutting Mach Operator
2013-04-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2013-04-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cutting Mach Operator
2013-04-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cutting Mach Operator
2013-04-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Supervisor, Co. Official
2007-06-13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.17
1.81
0.09
Front-end Loader Operator
2007-06-13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.23
0.91
0.25
Backhoe Operator
2005-04-21
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.17
10
0.02
Stone Polisher/Cutter
2005-04-21
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
1.53
10
0.15
Stone Polisher/Cutter
2005-04-21
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.26
10
0.03
Stone Polisher/Cutter
2005-04-21
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.25
10
0.03
Stone Polisher/Cutter
2002-11-26
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.41
1.49
0.28
Stone Polisher/Cutter
2002-11-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2002-11-26
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.64
2.83
0.23
Stone Polisher/Cutter
2002-11-26
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.58
10
0.06
Stone Polisher/Cutter
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.
Endsley Quarry recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2007.
Injury rate, 2007
ⓘ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 3.30 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 cases per 100 workers.
In Tennessee, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.59 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
2007 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2006 *
8.13
8.13
0.000
2005 *
6.96
6.96
0.000
2004 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2003 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2002 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2001 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2000 *
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2018
0
2017
4
2016
9
2015
6
2014
7
2013
7
2012
6
2010
2
2009
4
2008
10
2007
16
2006
23
2005
28
2004
27
2003
33
2002
35
2001
30
2000
20
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Endsley Quarry sits in Blount County, Tennessee, 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.
Blount County, Tennessee · Population 137,747
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$74,607
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 working on crusher repairs coming down ladder at end of shift slipped on second to last rung of ladder, stumbled and hit/fell into air compressor tongue resulting in bruised left flank.
Employee slipped on wet/muddy marble and caught himself before he landed on the ground, pulled himself up quickly. Complained of lower back pain whether moving or not.
2006 · 2 incidents
July 26, 2006TN · Metal/Non-Metalstone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE was handling a piece of marble (using an overhead crane) to get it ready to cut. The marble slipped out of the slings and EE tried to stop its fall. The stone fell and hit his middle left finger.
July 10, 2006TN · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE was lifting and moving a pump from the plant storage area to the quarry and thinks he may have caused a back problem which he reported 45-60 days later. He went home around 11:30am.
2005 · 2 incidents
February 15, 2005TN · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS