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Grand Summit Quarry: 94 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Grenola, Elk County, KS  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1401658

Grand Summit Quarry has $25K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3 outstanding across 8 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2007–2017
Latest incident
Jan 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
94
citations
26
significant & substantial
$24,663
proposed penalties
$21,571
paid to date
87% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,092 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Mid-States Materials, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
34
inspections on record
453
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: 453 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.
2
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2022-04-26.
On record since 2015.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Grand Summit Quarry has $25K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3 outstanding across 8 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.
$25K
proposed penalties
$22K
current assessed
$22K
paid to date
$3
outstanding
90 assessments are final orders; 8 contested dockets.
Of $10K in penalties contested before the Commission, $7K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-04-22.
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.
28.3%
significant & substantial
7.6%
high negligence or reckless
26.1%
reasonably likely or greater
54.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 2.2% none, 8.7% low, 81.5% moderate, 7.6% high, 0.0% reckless.
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.
14 citations taken to the federal commission · 15% of citations on record
  • Settled 11 · 79%
  • Stood as issued 3 · 21%
82%
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 11 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
30%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$10K proposed, $7K 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 2025-07-15.
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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
CENT 2011-550M Settlement Rae 2011 $6K → $4K
CENT 2019-0263 Settlement Rae 2019 $1K → $787
CENT 2017-0284 Settlement Lesnick 2017 $1K → $753
CENT 2018-0448 Settlement Gill 2019 $572 → $386
CENT 2025-0321 Dismissal Simonton 2026 $549 → $549
CENT 2018-0314 Settlement Rae 2018 $454 → $236
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2025-09-16
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
13
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg8
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (13)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-09-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-09-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2025-09-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 Cleanup Man
2025-09-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-04-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-04-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2018-03-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2018-03-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2018-03-21 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.22 10 0.02 Truck Driver
2018-03-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2010-09-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 0.83 0.27 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-09-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-09-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 1.43 0.10 Truck Driver
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.

Grand Summit Quarry 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 Kansas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.88 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.
Ownership history
  1. Wade Agricultural Products Inc. 2006 to 2018
  2. Mid-States Materials, LLC 2018 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 8
2025 8
2024 7
2023 1
2022 7
2021 4
2019 3
2018 14
2017 6
2016 6
2015 5
2014 5
2013 4
2012 2
2011 6
2010 5
2009 4
2008 7
2007 8
2006 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Grand Summit Quarry sits in Elk County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 6.2% 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.
Elk County, Kansas · Population 2,464
6.2%
Mining share of county employment
$56,087
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 445 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 981 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 6,111 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 6,807 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 6,246 8 1 1280.8
2025 Q1 4,327 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4,668 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 5,339 0 0 0.0
Show 69 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,859 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,990 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,755 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 0 0 0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 3,067 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,727 6 3 1609.9
2022 Q1 3,890 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,339 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,973 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 4,166 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,065 2 0 968.5
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q2 3,113 2 1 642.5
2019 Q1 452 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,485 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,989 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 5,776 6 3 1038.8
2018 Q1 2,488 10 1 4019.3
2017 Q4 1,516 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,770 4 0 1444.0
2017 Q2 2,817 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,809 4 3 1424.0
2016 Q4 2,077 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,619 1 0 381.8
2016 Q2 3,005 1 0 332.8
2016 Q1 1,688 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,715 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,838 9 3 4896.6
2015 Q2 2,731 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 526 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 929 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,643 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2,695 6 2 2226.3
2014 Q1 557 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,332 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 855 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 184 2 0 10869.6
2013 Q1 493 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 822 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,390 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 1,429 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 2,769 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,118 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 952 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 2,452 3 3 1223.5
2010 Q3 3,542 3 2 847.0
2010 Q2 2,359 5 2 2119.5
2010 Q1 308 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,566 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,184 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 3,390 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1,605 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 2,301 7 1 3042.2
2008 Q3 3,147 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 3,245 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 4,207 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 5,094 7 1 1374.2
2007 Q3 4,332 7 0 1615.9
2007 Q2 1,686 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,524 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,771 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 2,760 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 918 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,043 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2017 · 1 incident

January 25, 2017 KS · Metal/Non-Metal rotary bucket excavator operator MACHINERY
Wade Agricultural Products Inc. · Struck against a moving object

Operating 349 excavator and bucket of machine hit a boulder (rock). Employee to be off work a few days (rest of this week) if not better by Monday, is to return to doctor.

2016 · 1 incident

August 12, 2016 KS · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Wade Agricultural Products Inc. · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Went to burn the trash, ground was wet from rain slipped and fell.

2007 · 1 incident

October 31, 2007 KS · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Wade Agricultural Products Inc. · Struck against a moving object

Was going up ramp & engine stalled out. Lost air to brake system, truck hit berm and tipped over. Bent door, broke seat & battery box restraint. EE was asked if he was ok, said he was fine. No visual injury noted. Asked later if he needed to be checked out. EE said no he might be sore, bump on hand & battery fell on leg. RTW 11/2/07. Fine till noon & complained of back hurting.