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: 431 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Forest Quarry has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $314 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$314
outstanding
29 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2017-05-10.
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: 2017-09-13, 8 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (7)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2017-09-13
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.2
10
0.02
Cleanup Man
2017-09-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2012-11-15
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.15
10
0.02
Front-end Loader Operator
2012-11-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2011-05-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-05-04
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.2
Front-end Loader Operator
2011-05-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
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.
Forest 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 Ohio, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.50 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 *
15.41
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
2019
5
2018
5
2017
6
2016
6
2015
6
2014
6
2013
5
2012
6
2011
5
2010
4
2009
3
2008
4
2007
9
2006
12
2005
4
2004
2
2003
2
2002
3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Forest Quarry sits in Hardin County, Ohio, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Hardin County, Ohio · Population 30,527
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$58,001
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
A missing person suffered a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The body was removed by the coroners office from the woods located at the back of the mine property. This individual has never been employed by the mine, nor the company.
Shelly Materials Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Hand was in pinch point between driving bar and blowbar while being struck by sledge hammer. Impairment: deep bruise and accumulation of blood under the skin on left little finger.
February 9, 2006OH · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Two employees were changing a scraper on the end 0f #10 stacking conveyor. The first one was holding the counter weight arm in place while the second one replaced the scraper blade; the arm slipped from his hand, pivoted around & struck the second EE in the mouth injuring his lower lip & chipped a tooth. Ice was used to stop bleeding & swelling.