Glade Stone Plant has $33K in proposed MSHA penalties and $100 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
9
Years on record
1986–2018
Latest incident
May 2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
132
citations
46
significant & substantial
$32,584
proposed penalties
$32,000
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $584 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.
132 citations across 1,702 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Glade Stone Plant has $33K in proposed MSHA penalties and $100 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.
$33K
proposed penalties
$32K
current assessed
$32K
paid to date
$100
outstanding
132 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $802 in penalties contested before the Commission, $318 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-27.
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.
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 · 2% of citations on record
Settled
3 · 100%
100%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
60%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$802 proposed, $318 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 2013-08-29.
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: 2025-09-17
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
50
samples
9
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg31
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz15
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz3
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (50)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-09-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2025-09-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2025-09-17
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
Truck Driver
2025-09-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2025-09-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2025-09-17
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.13
Mechanic
2025-09-17
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
Mechanic
2025-09-17
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.13
Utility Man
2025-08-27
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.22
Front-end Loader Operator
2025-08-27
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-08-27
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2025-08-27
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2024-12-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2024-12-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-12-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2024-12-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2024-07-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2024-07-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2024-07-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.2
Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-07-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2023-08-30
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2023-08-30
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2023-08-30
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2023-08-30
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2022-06-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2022-06-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2022-06-16
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.16
Front-end Loader Operator
2019-06-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Screen/Scalper Operator
2019-06-26
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.22
Cleanup Man
2019-06-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2019-06-26
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.21
Front-end Loader Operator
2018-01-31
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
1.47
0.10
Crusher Oper/Worker
2018-01-31
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2018-01-31
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2017-07-11
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.3
2.48
0.12
Backhoe Operator
2017-07-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2017-07-11
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.72
1.74
0.41
Crusher Oper/Worker
2013-10-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Screen/Scalper Operator
2013-10-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2013-10-29
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.21
1.66
0.13
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2013-10-29
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.16
10
0.02
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2013-10-29
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.5
1.08
0.46
Drill Operator, Rotary
2009-04-22
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2009-04-22
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-04-22
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2009-04-22
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.19
0.98
0.19
Truck Driver
2009-04-22
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.12
Lab Technician
2003-07-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Bulldozer Operator
2003-07-24
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.32
1.18
0.27
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2003-07-24
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.85
1.84
0.46
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.
Glade Stone Plant recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ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
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Virginia, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.37 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
2025 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2016 *
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
26
2025
16
2024
14
2023
14
2022
17
2021
21
2020
15
2019
11
2018
9
2017
8
2016
10
2015
17
2014
9
2013
8
2012
9
2011
10
2010
8
2009
7
2008
15
2007
16
2006
12
2005
13
2004
17
2003
19
2002
11
2001
15
2000
16
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Glade Stone Plant sits in Washington County, Virginia, where the Census mining category is 1.2% 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.
Washington County, Virginia · Population 53,913
1.2%
Mining share of county employment
$62,774
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
It was a yearly Comprehensive Hearing Test, which shows a Recordable Standard Threshold Shift of 25 dB or more at 2000Hz in the left ear. *Retested and no threshold shift of 25 dB found.
May 30, 2018VA · Metal/Non-Metalblaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkeyHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Employee was loading a Volvo hauler from a bin with 6" rip rap when he got struck by a piece of rock. The rock may have struck the left side of his hard hat causing a contusion to the left side of his head (temple area).
2005 · 1 incident
December 30, 2005VA · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
The alleged accident resulted from employee manually lifting a partially filled 55 gallon onto the rear of a company service truck. In doing so, EE states that he pulled a muscle in the calf portion of his leg, which may have contributed to blood clot(s) in his leg. A portion of this blood clot(s) traveled to EE's lung causing him to be hospitalized.
Glade Stone Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
EE WAS ASSISTING WITH A BLOCK @ THE PRIMARY CRUSHER WHEN THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED. THE INJURY HAPPENED AS EE PICKED UP A ROCK WEIGHING APPROX 100 POUNDS. AS HE LAID THE ROCK DOWN HIS FOOTING COUL D HAVE SLIPPED CAUSING THE ROCK TO LAND ON HIS LEFT HAND EE WAS UTILIZING PROTECTIVE EQUIP (GLOVES) TO PROTECT HIS HANDS.
1999 · 1 incident
February 15, 1999VA · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverSTEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
NO POWER ON 1103VOLT CONTROL TRANSFORMER CHECKED FUSE BOX AND FUSES WERE BLOWN CHECKED BOX AND REPLACED FUSES WHEN ENGAGED FUST BOX FLASH CAME OUT OF BOX THE TRANSO.FORMER WAS SHORTED
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