Franklin Ridge Sand & Gravel has $102K in proposed MSHA penalties and $706 outstanding across 11 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
17
Years on record
2005–2022
Latest incident
May 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
209
citations
84
significant & substantial
$101,507
proposed penalties
$84,551
paid to date
83% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $16,956 gap.
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.
209 citations across 1,084 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Franklin Ridge Sand & Gravel has $102K in proposed MSHA penalties and $706 outstanding across 11 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.
$102K
proposed penalties
$85K
current assessed
$85K
paid to date
$706
outstanding
197 assessments are final orders; 11 contested dockets.
Of $55K in penalties contested before the Commission, $35K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-25.
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.
46citations taken to the federal commission · 22% of citations on record
Settled
40 · 87%
Stood as issued
4 · 9%
Vacated or withdrawn
2 · 4%
90%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 29 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
36%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$52K proposed, $34K 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 2020-11-04.
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: 2019-09-25, 6 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
13
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg11
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (13)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2019-09-25
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2019-05-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Bulldozer Operator
2019-05-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-05-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2019-05-08
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.31
Front-end Loader Operator
2016-12-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2016-12-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2016-12-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2009-11-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2009-11-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.21
1.07
0.20
Front-end Loader Operator
2009-05-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-01-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2001-11-15
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.
Franklin Ridge Sand & Gravel recorded 25.85 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2018.
Injury rate, 2018
ⓘ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.
25.85
total case rate
17.23
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.95 and the all-US-mining average was 2.33 cases per 100 workers.
In Washington, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.25 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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
6
2025
7
2024
9
2023
11
2022
8
2021
9
2020
10
2019
11
2018
10
2017
6
2016
5
2012
3
2011
4
2010
5
2009
6
2008
7
2007
9
2006
7
2005
4
2004
2
2003
1
2002
1
2001
1
2000
1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Franklin Ridge Sand & Gravel sits in King County, Washington, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
King County, Washington · Population 2,262,713
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$122,148
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
1,058
1
0
945.2
2026 Q1
2,901
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
2,638
3
1
1137.2
2025 Q3
2,716
3
3
1104.6
2025 Q2
3,498
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
3,473
6
4
1727.6
2024 Q4
3,785
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
3,360
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
4,168
1
0
239.9
2024 Q1
4,609
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
3,932
1
0
254.3
2023 Q3
3,945
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
5,233
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
4,268
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
3,711
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
4,308
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
4,529
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
3,870
10
0
2584.0
2021 Q4
2,889
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
3,126
1
0
319.9
2021 Q2
3,771
0
0
0.0
2021 Q1
4,810
1
0
207.9
2020 Q4
4,253
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
4,274
3
1
701.9
2020 Q2
5,673
0
0
0.0
2020 Q1
4,812
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
3,023
4
0
1323.2
2019 Q3
3,570
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
5,110
15
7
2935.4
2019 Q1
6,587
14
7
2125.4
2018 Q4
6,530
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
6,085
9
4
1479.0
2018 Q2
6,125
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
4,473
4
2
894.3
2017 Q4
3,588
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
3,026
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
4,048
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
3,320
0
0
0.0
2016 Q4
3,223
15
6
4654.0
2016 Q3
1,124
0
0
0.0
2012 Q4
1,080
0
0
0.0
2012 Q3
1,643
0
0
0.0
2012 Q2
2,130
3
2
1408.5
2012 Q1
1,522
0
0
0.0
2011 Q4
2,192
4
2
1824.8
2011 Q3
1,930
0
0
0.0
2011 Q2
2,211
0
0
0.0
2011 Q1
1,956
3
2
1533.7
2010 Q4
2,626
5
2
1904.0
2010 Q3
3,331
0
0
0.0
2010 Q2
2,498
2
0
800.6
2010 Q1
1,820
8
4
4395.6
2009 Q4
2,628
3
3
1141.6
2009 Q3
3,338
0
0
0.0
2009 Q2
3,219
4
0
1242.6
2009 Q1
2,982
0
0
0.0
2008 Q4
3,049
5
1
1639.9
2008 Q3
3,909
0
0
0.0
2008 Q2
5,006
9
3
1797.8
2008 Q1
1,684
3
0
1781.5
2007 Q4
3,214
0
0
0.0
2007 Q3
5,075
0
0
0.0
2007 Q2
4,084
7
6
1714.0
2007 Q1
4,141
0
0
0.0
2006 Q4
2,271
9
6
3963.0
2006 Q3
3,668
6
1
1635.8
2006 Q2
2,807
0
0
0.0
2006 Q1
3,486
3
0
860.6
2005 Q4
2,541
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
2,697
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
2,224
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
380
3
0
7894.7
2004 Q4
360
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
740
10
0
13513.5
2004 Q2
842
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
264
7
3
26515.2
2003 Q4
460
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
435
0
0
0.0
2003 Q2
460
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
720
4
1
5555.6
2002 Q4
460
3
1
6521.7
2002 Q3
402
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
410
2
1
4878.0
2002 Q1
328
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
301
9
7
29900.3
2001 Q3
398
5
3
12562.8
2001 Q1
384
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
358
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
360
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
300
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
354
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
17 on file
2022 · 1 incident
May 31, 2022WA · Metal/Non-Metalcrusher attendant/operator, pan feeder operator/workerPOWERED HAULAGE
Plant Operator was walking around crusher during operation when EE went to the control panel and removed hard-hat and walked underneath a conveyor where a rock bounced off of the belt and fell approximately 8 feet and struck the miner in the head. The miner felt dizzy and nauseous then went to the hospital for further evaluation.
2018 · 3 incidents
December 31, 2018WA · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
At approx 10:30 AM EE was operating Cat D8R dozer. EE proceeded to dismount the equipment to visually examine work area. EE's foot was caught between blade rise & machine tracks while simultaneously slipping on the wet & muddy tracks. This caused EE's left ankle to twist & then caused EE to fall onto tracks. EE called Pit Foreman at 10:47 AM & notified Foreman
December 7, 2018WA · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Labor was tightening bolts for transfer conveyor assembly, with a wrench using ee whole body weight. The wrench slipped of the bolt and came back which struck the lower right side of ee head.
September 11, 2018WA · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
Hired mechanic was using porta power to push out the tail pulley of the impactor. The wood snapped and sent the tail pulley back and EE's hand got stuck/crushed in the impactor. The machine was reset and the mechanic went to the hospital.
2017 · 1 incident
September 27, 2017WA · Metal/Non-Metalcrusher attendant/operator, pan feeder operator/workerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Performing maintenance on crusher on rainy day. Slipped while climbing ladder to check fluid levels. Fell 4-6 ft. to ground, landing flat on back. Back tightened up over weekend, went to doctor on 10/02/2017.
2011 · 1 incident
January 18, 2011WA · Metal/Non-Metalprep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Miner was standing on the third rung of a step ladder performing maintenence on a screening plant when miner lost his balance and fell backwards onto his left side in the dirt and mud. Miner suffered a concusion, seperated left shoulder, strained neck, strained back and ligament damage to his right knee.
2010 · 2 incidents
August 23, 2010WA · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerMACHINERY
Miner was checking on a screening plant, the upper deck had gotten clogged with debris, before the miner was able to shut down the machine a 4" rock came off the upper deck of the screening plant striking the miner in the side of the face. The miner sustained a contusion and laceration requiring 3 stitches.
July 28, 2010WA · Metal/Non-Metaloutside foreman, leadmanELECTRICAL
Miner was walking on the catwalk of the main screen plant when he contacted an electrical line, (which had some insulation rubbed off due to placing a screen up against the line) the line arced on the hand rail and shocked the miner, causing him to fall against the hand rail straining his back.
2009 · 2 incidents
October 19, 2009WA · Metal/Non-Metalledgeman/hand, quarry manMACHINERY
Miner was assisting mechanic with routine maintenance of rotating cutting edge on a John Deere 824 loader bucket. While the mechanic and miner were rotating the cutting edge it slipped out of the mechanics hands and the miner was unable to maintain his grip on the other end dropping end of cutting edge on his foot, fracturing his right #1 toe.
October 2, 2009WA · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Miner had placed socket with rachet on bolt to tighten jaw crusher adjustment; spring tension was released pushing socket and rachet toward steel I-beam. Miner's hand was on rachet head instead of handle of rachet, crushing finger between rachet and steel I-beam lacerating finger requiring stitches.