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Foster Materials: 73 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

HMMK LLC · Surface
Hegins, Schuylkill County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3608876

Foster Materials has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $26 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
2009–2016
Latest incident
Sep 2016
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
73
citations
22
significant & substantial
$10,729
proposed penalties
$10,703
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $26 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See HMMK LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
41
inspections on record
621
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: 621 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Foster Materials has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $26 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$26
outstanding
72 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-08-31.
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.
30.6%
significant & substantial
9.7%
high negligence or reckless
30.6%
reasonably likely or greater
40.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 9.7% low, 80.6% moderate, 9.7% 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: 2011-09-15, 14 years ago
24%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
19
samples
17
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz174 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (19)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2011-08-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.36 0.23 1.57 Utility Man
2011-07-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.49 0.35 1.40 Utility Man
2005-05-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.5 0.31 1.61 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-05-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.98 0.28 3.50 Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-09-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.28 0.50 Utility Man
2011-07-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-07-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.48 0.38 Truck Driver
2009-04-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.27 0.35 0.77 Truck Driver
2009-04-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-04-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 0.44 0.59 Utility Man
2007-08-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.4 0.35 Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-08-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.53 0.25 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-08-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.52 0.67 0.78 Truck Driver
2005-08-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.37 0.51 0.73 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-05-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 0.91 0.29 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-05-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.75 1.85 0.41 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-09-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 0.3 0.87 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-09-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 0.49 0.49 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-09-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 0.3 0.80 Truck Driver
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.

Foster Materials recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2015.

Injury rate, 2015
ⓘ 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
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.26 and the all-US-mining average was 2.72 cases per 100 workers.
In Pennsylvania, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.18 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.
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.
Ownership history
  1. Schuylkill Contracting Company 2001 to 2004
  2. HMMK LLC 2004 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2017 3
2016 12
2015 11
2014 9
2013 12
2012 9
2011 10
2010 12
2009 9
2008 9
2007 9
2006 7
2005 10
2004 4
2003 2
2002 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Foster Materials sits in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 1.1% 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.
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania · Population 143,259
1.1%
Mining share of county employment
$66,901
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
2017 Q3 318 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,031 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,095 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 3,810 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 4,715 2 0 424.2
2016 Q2 4,604 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 3,764 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 11,039 0 0 0.0
Show 55 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2015 Q3 3,610 3 0 831.0
2015 Q2 2,912 2 0 686.8
2015 Q1 2,672 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,091 2 0 1833.2
2014 Q3 4,580 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 4,618 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 2,067 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 4,219 3 0 711.1
2013 Q3 2,815 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 3,866 4 2 1034.7
2013 Q1 3,343 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,717 3 0 1104.2
2012 Q3 3,344 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 4,363 5 0 1146.0
2012 Q1 2,511 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 4,549 2 1 439.7
2011 Q3 5,423 4 2 737.6
2011 Q2 4,425 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 3,820 2 1 523.6
2010 Q4 4,256 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 5,531 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 5,464 2 0 366.0
2010 Q1 2,636 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 4,431 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 4,909 1 1 203.7
2009 Q2 3,787 1 0 264.1
2009 Q1 1,753 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 3,806 2 0 525.5
2008 Q3 4,702 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 5,311 3 2 564.9
2008 Q1 4,305 3 0 696.9
2007 Q4 4,329 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 5,061 5 1 987.9
2007 Q2 4,666 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 2,990 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 4,137 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 4,245 3 1 706.7
2006 Q2 4,627 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 3,676 5 1 1360.2
2005 Q4 4,022 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 4,762 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 5,131 5 4 974.5
2005 Q1 3,976 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 4,563 2 0 438.3
2004 Q3 3,664 1 1 272.9
2004 Q2 0 0 0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 1,087 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,365 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,024 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 2,020 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 2,257 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 957 1 0 1044.9
2002 Q1 350 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

10 on file

2016 · 1 incident

September 26, 2016 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
HMMK LLC · Struck by falling object

rock fell on right thumb

2013 · 3 incidents

December 10, 2013 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
HMMK LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Slipped on ice - hit head, wearing harness - may have struck neck or back. Complained of not feeling well, possible concussion, ambulance took to Pottsville hospital.

September 11, 2013 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
HMMK LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee received contusion to left foot when removing screen.

May 21, 2013 PA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
HMMK LLC · Fall from machine

Employee was coming off Roller, he slipped and fell causing fracture to hip.

2012 · 1 incident

February 23, 2012 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
HMMK LLC · Struck against stationary object

Coming down from screen deck and twisted ankle.

2011 · 1 incident

May 19, 2011 PA · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
HMMK LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee hammering a pin when a piece of material got embedded into employees hand.

2010 · 3 incidents

December 9, 2010 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
HMMK LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Slipped on ice and injured left knee.

August 6, 2010 PA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
HMMK LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee twisted arm and possibly tore bicep muscle in right arm

June 11, 2010 PA · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
HMMK LLC · Struck against stationary object

Lacerated middle finger of left hand when slid against sharp object requiring stitches

2009 · 1 incident

August 25, 2009 PA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
HMMK LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Contractor was grinding metal stands off of the wheel assembly of a conveyor they were constructing. The contractor momentarily lost control of the grinder and cut his left index finger. The contractor was not wearing his leather gloves at the time of the incident.