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Green Limestone Sand Plant: 45 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Greg Bruening
Charles City, Floyd County, IA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1302098

Green Limestone Sand Plant has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1997–2014
Latest incident
Jul 2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
45
citations
9
significant & substantial
$5,430
proposed penalties
$5,131
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $299 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Bruening Rock Products, Inc's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
37
inspections on record
298
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: 298 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Green Limestone Sand Plant has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
45 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $1K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-04-26.
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.
20.0%
significant & substantial
4.4%
high negligence or reckless
20.0%
reasonably likely or greater
77.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 13.3% low, 82.2% moderate, 4.4% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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
CENT20020073M Settlement Zielinski 2002 $443 → $350
CENT 2004-63-M Settlement Zielinski 2004 $434 → $345
CENT20010028M Settlement Melick 2001 $317 → $317
CENT20010088M Settlement Hodgdon 2001 $242 → $125
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: 2012-10-30, 13 years ago
6
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg6
Show the individual readings (6)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2012-10-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2012-10-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2012-10-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-02-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-02-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Screen/Scalper Operator
2009-10-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 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.
Ownership history
  1. Greene Limestone Company 1985 to 2008
  2. Greene Limestone Allied Manatts Group, L.L.C 2009 to 2016
  3. Bruening Rock Products, Inc 2016 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 0
2025 2
2024 0
2023 2
2022 2
2021 3
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 3
2016 3
2015 3
2014 3
2013 4
2012 4
2011 6
2010 5
2009 6
2008 5
2007 6
2006 6
2005 6
2004 6
2003 6
2002 5
2001 6
2000 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Green Limestone Sand Plant sits in Floyd County, Iowa, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Floyd County, Iowa · Population 15,502
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$64,500
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 0 0 0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 0 0 0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 664 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 807 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 0 0 0
2022 Q2 1,267 2 0 1578.5
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 354 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 700 1 0 1428.6
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 894 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q2 1,599 3 1 1876.2
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 356 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 291 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 1,279 1 0 781.9
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 130 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,997 1 0 500.8
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 162 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 784 1 0 1275.5
2015 Q2 1,555 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 296 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,807 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,913 3 1 1568.2
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 762 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,109 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,196 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,778 2 1 1124.9
2012 Q3 2,762 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,492 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,291 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,433 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 2,230 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,146 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 29 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 667 6 1 8995.5
2010 Q3 670 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 66 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 14 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,100 3 0 2727.3
2009 Q3 1,168 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 416 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 34 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 675 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 2,551 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,914 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 960 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,650 1 0 377.4
2007 Q2 1,124 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 592 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 2,886 1 0 346.5
2006 Q2 1,528 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 493 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,432 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,275 1 0 784.3
2005 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 692 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,925 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,965 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 13 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,375 3 2 2181.8
2003 Q3 1,282 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 280 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,308 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 2,204 5 1 2268.6
2002 Q3 237 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,702 3 0 1762.6
2002 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,224 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,849 6 2 2106.0
2001 Q2 2,443 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 33 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 922 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,796 2 0 715.3
2000 Q2 1,310 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 227 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2014 · 1 incident

July 28, 2014 IA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Greene Limestone Allied Manatts Group, L.L.C · Fall to the walkway or working surface

The crew was standing beside the crew pickup having their safety talk when employee fainted. As he was going down he was stepping towards the truck and twisted his ankle and he hit his head on pickup on the way down. As he came to he said he was ok but felt a little dizzy. Co-worker asked him about going to doctor and drove him in.

2007 · 1 incident

August 23, 2007 IA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Greene Limestone Company · Fall from machine

Climbing off a conveyor after hooking crane hook-foot slipped off lattice (rainy conditions) fell approx. 1 foot after letting go with hands. sprained left ankle and twisted right knee (strained knee)

1997 · 1 incident

July 16, 1997 IA · Metal/Non-Metal inspector HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Greene Limestone Company · Struck by flying object

SEE STTACHMENT: WHILE REPAIRING THE TRACK ON A D-7 A PIN 1" X 12" USED TO CONNECT THE TRACK WAS STRUCK WITH A 10# HAMMER. INJURED WAS OBSERVING THE PROCESS WHEN A PIECE OF METAL CAME OFF THE P IN & STRUCK HIM IN THE CHEST. HE WAS EXAMINED & TAKEN TO A MEDICAL DOCTOR. THE FRAGMENT WAS REMOVED. BOTH EES WERE WEARING EYE PROTECTION.