Mining Incidents

FREY SAND & GRAVEL: 30 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by VOTORANTIM CIMENTOS
Orchard Park, Genesee County, NY  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3000879

FREY SAND & GRAVEL has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
19
Years on record
1983–2022
Latest incident
Oct 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
30
citations
6
significant & substantial
$3,163
proposed penalties
$3,163
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
38
inspections on record
505
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: 505 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2010-11-03.
On record since 2010.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

FREY SAND & GRAVEL has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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
$0
outstanding
29 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-09-20.
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.
20.7%
significant & substantial
3.4%
high negligence or reckless
24.1%
reasonably likely or greater
58.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 3.4% none, 24.1% low, 69.0% moderate, 3.4% 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: 2025-10-15
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
19
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg14
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz5
Show the individual readings (19)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-10-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-10-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2025-10-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2025-10-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-09-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-09-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-09-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2022-09-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2017-11-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2017-11-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-11-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.54 0.26 Crusher Oper/Worker
2014-05-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2014-05-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 1.45 0.12 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-05-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2011-09-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2011-09-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.69 0.22 Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-09-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.88 0.19 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-08-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-08-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.51 0.41 Crusher Oper/Worker
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.

FREY SAND & GRAVEL recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2017.

Injury rate, 2017
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 1.99 and the all-US-mining average was 2.48 cases per 100 workers.
In New York, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.59 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
2017 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2008 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2006 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2005 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 * 9.40 0.00 0.000
2001 * 0.00 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.
Ownership history
  1. Frey Concrete Inc 1950 to 1997
  2. FREY CONCRETE 1998 to 2019
  3. VCNA United Materials LLC 2019 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 6
2025 8
2024 8
2023 8
2022 9
2021 8
2020 8
2019 10
2018 10
2017 9
2016 9
2015 9
2014 8
2013 8
2012 10
2011 9
2010 9
2009 9
2008 9
2007 9
2006 10
2005 10
2004 10
2003 10
2002 10
2001 10
2000 9
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

FREY SAND & GRAVEL sits in Genesee County, New York, 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.
Genesee County, New York · Population 57,943
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$72,055
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 4,532 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,935 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 4,931 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 4,932 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,701 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,026 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4,385 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 5,495 0 0 0.0
Show 97 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 4,464 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,562 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 3,710 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 4,925 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 4,789 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,350 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 4,213 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 5,333 1 0 187.5
2022 Q2 4,998 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,976 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 4,377 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 5,281 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 4,903 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,263 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 4,840 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 5,259 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,426 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,709 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 4,943 3 0 606.9
2019 Q3 6,514 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 5,359 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2,590 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 4,637 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 5,810 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 5,240 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 2,352 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 5,210 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 6,233 1 0 160.4
2017 Q2 6,380 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,381 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 4,992 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 6,165 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 5,369 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 2,255 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 4,820 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 5,521 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 5,302 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 2,177 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 4,820 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 5,687 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 5,570 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,911 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 4,513 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 4,632 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 4,813 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 2,189 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 5,520 1 0 181.2
2012 Q3 5,888 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 5,274 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 2,480 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 4,510 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 4,731 1 0 211.4
2011 Q2 5,030 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 2,833 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 4,600 4 3 869.6
2010 Q3 6,626 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 5,708 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 2,493 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 5,605 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 6,327 3 1 474.2
2009 Q2 5,758 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,290 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 5,334 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 6,905 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 5,653 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 2,429 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 4,052 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 6,909 7 2 1013.2
2007 Q2 5,693 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,959 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 5,186 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 6,897 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 6,049 1 0 165.3
2006 Q1 2,280 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 5,152 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 6,829 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 5,760 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 2,329 1 0 429.4
2004 Q4 5,551 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 7,392 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 5,467 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 2,256 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 5,983 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 6,951 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 6,217 2 0 321.7
2003 Q1 2,414 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 5,296 1 0 188.8
2002 Q3 6,940 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 6,460 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 2,587 1 0 386.5
2001 Q4 5,414 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 6,955 3 0 431.3
2001 Q2 6,213 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 2,480 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 5,357 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 5,471 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,104 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

19 on file

2022 · 1 incident

October 25, 2022 NY · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
VCNA United Materials LLC · Fall onto or against objects

Employee is a mechanic and was performing maintenance activities on the D-6 dozer at the plant. Employee was standing on top of the D-6 dozer tracks while holding onto a handrail with left hand. Out of nowhere, employee claims left hip "gave out" and employee fell on top of the D-6 dozer tracks. Employee was evaluated by an Urgent Care on 10/26/22.

2009 · 1 incident

October 30, 2009 NY · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
FREY CONCRETE · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Hearing: confirmed recordable shift - right ear.

2007 · 1 incident

December 3, 2007 NY · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
FREY CONCRETE · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee had a previous hernia (Aug 2004) which was reaggrevated and required surgical repair on 1-8-08.

2002 · 1 incident

November 4, 2002 NY · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
FREY CONCRETE · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

RELEASING CHAIN BINDER ON GRIT BELT - HIT IN CHIN BY HANDLE, REQUIRED STITCHES.

1997 · 2 incidents

September 26, 1997 NY · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Frey Concrete Inc · Fall onto or against objects

EE STATES THAT HE WAS FILLING A FRONTEND LOADER WITH FUEL. WHILE FUELING THE EE WAS STANDING ON LOADER LADDER. FUEL NOZZLE SLIPPED OUT OF FILL OUT EE TRIED TO CATCH IT AND HE SLIPPED OFF LADDE R FALLING ONTO FUEL PUMP.

March 28, 1997 NY · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Frey Concrete Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE STATES WHILE HE WAS INSTALLING A VALVE IN THE SAND TANK HE REACHED UP OVER HIS HEAD AND FELT A TIGHTNESS AND PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK--A SITE WHERE HE HAS HAD PREVIOUS PAIN & INJURY.

1995 · 2 incidents

June 30, 1995 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Frey Concrete Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

MINER WAS CUTTING METAL ON A SCREEN DECK. HOSE ON ACETYLINE LINE GOT CUT BY PIECE OF SHARP METLA, WORE THRU AND FLASHED ONTO MINER'S THUMB.

March 14, 1995 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Frey Concrete Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

EE STATES HE WAS CUTTING AN IRON PIPE WITH TORCH, HOT SLAG DRIPPED DOWN & INTO GLOVE BURNING HAND.

1994 · 4 incidents

October 11, 1994 NY · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Frey Concrete Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE ALLEGES THAT AN INJURY WAS SUSTAINED TO HIS L SHOULDER FROM THE REPEATED MOTOR OF TURNING THE MACHINE TO THE LEFT.

August 19, 1994 NY · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Frey Concrete Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE STATES HE WAS AT A WORKBENCH GRINDING ON A 5 INCH PIECE OF STEEL PIPE WHEN THE GRINDER CAUGHT A PIECE OF THE PIPE AND PULLED IT THRU HIS FINGERS CAUSING INJURY.

May 5, 1994 NY · Metal/Non-Metal weighman, scale person SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Frey Concrete Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE STATES SHE WAS WALKING AROUND A COUNTER AREA, CAUGHT FOOT ON CORNER OF COUNTER, LOST BALANCE AND FELL- TWISTING LEG AND KNEE.

March 18, 1994 NY · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Frey Concrete Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE REMOVING A 1" HYDRAULIC HOSE FROM AN END DUMP. HE WAS PULLING UP ON A LARGE WRENCH AND PULLED A MUSCLE.

1993 · 2 incidents

October 29, 1993 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Frey Concrete Inc · Struck by flying object

EE STATES HE WAS WORKING WITH ANOTHER EE CLEARNING OVERSIZE ROCKS FROM GRATER OVER BIN. OTHER EE STRUCK A ROCK WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER PIECE OF ROCK SPLIT OFF FLEW UP AND HIT EE IN MOUTH.

June 30, 1993 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Frey Concrete Inc · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS STANDING ON METAL CATWALK ATTEMPTING TO CLEAR A CRUSHER WHEN A WELD ON A PIECE OF THE CATWALK GAVEWAY EMPLOYEES LEG WENT PARTIALLY THRU CAT WALK PINCHING LEG NO FALL OR OTHER TRAUMA WAS INVOLVED DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL 070693

1992 · 2 incidents

June 10, 1992 NY · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Frey Concrete Inc · Struck against a moving object

EE STATED THAT WHILE OPERATING SCRAPER PAN PUSHED BY RUBBER TIRED DOZER HE TWISTED AROUND TO CHECK LOAD IN PAN AND STRAINED NECK AND BACK WHEN PAN WAS PUSHED AHEAD HER DOZER.

April 22, 1992 NY · Metal/Non-Metal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management MACHINERY
Frey Concrete Inc · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE STATES WHILE DRILLING A HOLE IN AN OVERHEAD BOX, SOME RUST PARTICLE FELL DOWN AND GOT BEHIND HIS SAFETY GLASSES AND INTO LEFT EYE.

1991 · 1 incident

September 17, 1991 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Frey Concrete Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

MINER STATES HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CARRY A #120 LB BARREL OF GREASE UP A FLIGHT OF STAIRS WHEN HE FELT A "TEARING" SENSATION IN LEFT LOWER ABDOMINAL AREA.

1985 · 1 incident

July 25, 1985 NY · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Frey Concrete Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE CRAWLED INTO MICHIGAN BACK DUMP TO CORRECT HYDRAULIC LINES AND BECAME WEDGED IN EMPLOYEE WAS FREED AND DENIED ANY INJURY BUT LATER CLAIMED A WORK RELATED INJURY INVESTIGATION IN PROGR .

1983 · 1 incident

January 11, 1983 NY · Metal/Non-Metal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Frey Concrete Inc · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS DISMANTLING A DEWATERING SCREW. EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHILE CUTTING STEEL AND TRIED TO GRAB ONTO STEEL FOR SUPPORT. THE PIECE OF STEEL FELL ON EMPLOYEES FOOT AND HE FELL TO THE GROUN D, INJURING HIS LEFT ELVOW AS HE TRIED TO BREAK HIS FALL. EMPLOYEE WAS ADMINISTERED TREATMENT FOR BRUISES AT LOCAL HOSPITAL AND RELEASED.