Garland Aggregate has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
Watch this mine
Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at Garland Aggregate.
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2006–2026
Latest incident
Jun 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
58
citations
11
significant & substantial
$10,070
proposed penalties
$9,890
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $180 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: 474 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Garland Aggregate has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
58 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $2K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-08-22.
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.
3citations taken to the federal commission · 5% of citations on record
Settled
2 · 67%
Stood as issued
1 · 33%
33%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
9%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2K proposed, $2K 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 2015-01-21.
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: 2024-10-09
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
14
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
Show the individual readings (14)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2024-10-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2024-10-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2018-10-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dragline Operator
2018-10-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2018-10-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2015-10-21
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2015-10-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.12
0.84
0.14
Truck Driver
2014-06-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Lab Technician
2014-06-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2009-05-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.28
0.3
0.93
Laborer, Bullgang
2009-05-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.14
0.82
0.17
Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-05-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2009-05-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2009-05-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.24
1.64
0.15
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
4
2025
6
2024
6
2023
5
2022
5
2021
6
2020
7
2019
9
2018
9
2017
9
2016
9
2015
10
2014
8
2013
10
2012
9
2011
7
2010
9
2009
7
2008
6
2007
6
2006
7
2005
6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Garland Aggregate sits in Warren County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 1.8% 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.
Warren County, Pennsylvania · Population 38,174
1.8%
Mining share of county employment
$59,013
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
Employee ran down the hill from the feeder at portable plant to get the plant shut off due to belt stalled and stepped on a rock and rolled EE's right ankle.
2025 · 1 incident
September 10, 2025PA · Metal/Non-Metallab technicianMACHINERY
Used a section of conveyor belting as a floor mat.
2006 · 1 incident
August 31, 2006PA · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
This man has a history of diabetes. Anytime he gets a scratch, he gets an infection. He was replacing a bolt in a transmission. He reached down through the floorboard in a D7 Dozer, when he scratched his left elbow. He didn't tell anyone. He got an infection in it and was put in the hospital and on IV's on the 15th of Sept.