Mining Incidents

Fox Creek Quarry: 8 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Strong City, Chase County, KS  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1401777

Fox Creek Quarry has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $953 in penalties since 2017, with $239 outstanding.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
8
citations
2
significant & substantial
$953
proposed penalties
$714
paid to date
75% of proposed penalties paid to date. The remaining $239 was reduced, settled, contested or is still owed.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
5
inspections on record
42
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: 42 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Fox Creek Quarry has $953 in proposed MSHA penalties and $239 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.
$953
proposed penalties
$953
current assessed
$714
paid to date
$239
outstanding
8 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-08-27.
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.
25.0%
significant & substantial
12.5%
high negligence or reckless
25.0%
reasonably likely or greater
12.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 50.0% low, 37.5% moderate, 12.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. O.Z. Stone Company LLC 2016 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2018 5
2017 3
2016 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Fox Creek Quarry sits in Chase County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 2.9% 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.
Chase County, Kansas · Population 2,579
2.9%
Mining share of county employment
$54,518
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; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. 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
2018 Q4 414 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 798 1 0 1253.1
2018 Q2 398 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 322 4 2 12422.4
2017 Q4 210 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 85 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 71 2 0 28169.0
2016 Q4 62 0 0 0.0
Show 1 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2016 Q3 322 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.