Mining Incidents

Ford Construction Company: 14 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by John H Ford
Water Valley, Graves County, KY  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1516612

Ford Construction Company has $2K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
14
citations
3
significant & substantial
$2,138
proposed penalties
$2,138
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
23
inspections on record
249
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: 249 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Ford Construction Company has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
14 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-04-19.
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.
21.4%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
21.4%
reasonably likely or greater
28.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2021-04-20, 5 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (5)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2021-04-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2021-04-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2021-04-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.69 1.7 0.41 Truck Driver
2011-09-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2002-06-18 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.
Ownership history
  1. Ford Construction Company 1989 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 0
2025 0
2024 1
2023 9
2022 13
2021 20
2020 8
2019 15
2011 4
2006 0
2005 1
2004 1
2003 3
2002 7
2001 6
2000 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Ford Construction Company sits in Graves County, Kentucky, 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.
Graves County, Kentucky · Population 36,612
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$50,576
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 14 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
Show 50 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 4 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 4 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 33 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 521 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 550 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 111 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,712 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,165 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 391 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 362 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,118 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,664 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,476 2 1 575.4
2021 Q1 380 2 0 5263.2
2020 Q4 686 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,733 3 0 1731.1
2020 Q2 418 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,590 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 453 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,388 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 9 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 59 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 845 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 126 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 0 0 0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 8 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 8 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 21 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 4 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 26 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 0 0 0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 269 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,637 2 1 1221.7
2003 Q2 1,674 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 602 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,333 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,319 1 0 758.2
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 949 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 692 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,349 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 338 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 656 4 1 6097.6
2000 Q3 322 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 634 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 6 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.