Freel Ranch Quarry has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2018
Latest incident
Jan 2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
70
citations
11
significant & substantial
$19,381
proposed penalties
$17,980
paid to date
93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,401 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.
Rate withheld: 454 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Freel Ranch Quarry has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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.
$19K
proposed penalties
$19K
current assessed
$18K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
70 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-28.
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: 2026-04-29
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (8)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2026-04-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2026-04-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Mechanic
2025-01-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
2025-01-16
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.32
10
0.03
Front-end Loader Operator
2021-04-21
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2021-04-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.23
Cleanup Man
2020-10-15
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.18
Front-end Loader Operator
2016-09-01
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.79
2.42
0.33
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
6
2025
6
2024
5
2023
4
2022
5
2021
6
2020
7
2019
6
2018
6
2017
8
2016
8
2015
7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Freel Ranch Quarry sits in Jackson County, Oregon, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Jackson County, Oregon · Population 222,563
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$71,443
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
2,677
1
0
373.6
2026 Q1
3,541
1
0
282.4
2025 Q4
3,572
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
3,476
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
3,954
5
1
1264.5
2025 Q1
2,242
1
0
446.0
2024 Q4
2,960
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
2,807
1
0
356.3
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
2,285
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
2,053
2
0
974.2
2023 Q4
1,968
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
2,069
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
2,003
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
2,050
3
0
1463.4
2022 Q4
2,594
4
0
1542.0
2022 Q3
2,720
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
2,324
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
2,191
2
0
912.8
2021 Q4
2,316
3
0
1295.3
2021 Q3
3,016
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
3,712
2
2
538.8
2021 Q1
3,099
0
0
0.0
2020 Q4
3,839
3
0
781.5
2020 Q3
2,706
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
2,034
4
1
1966.6
2020 Q1
2,975
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
2,710
9
1
3321.0
2019 Q3
3,590
4
1
1114.2
2019 Q2
2,686
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
2,392
3
1
1254.2
2018 Q4
2,815
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
2,325
2
0
860.2
2018 Q2
3,447
9
2
2611.0
2018 Q1
2,950
0
0
0.0
2017 Q4
3,277
4
0
1220.6
2017 Q3
4,460
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
3,514
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
2,546
4
1
1571.1
2016 Q4
2,644
0
0
0.0
2016 Q3
2,561
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
3,033
0
0
0.0
2016 Q1
3,249
1
0
307.8
2015 Q4
3,499
0
0
0.0
2015 Q3
3,097
2
1
645.8
2015 Q2
2,053
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2018 · 1 incident
January 30, 2018OR · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
HGC INC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Maintenance on crusher track. Putting track back together using a pry bar. Pry bar slipped and hand was smashed between the pry bar and a skid steer bucket.