Mining Incidents

Green Limestone Wash Plant: 40 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Greg Bruening
Charles City, Floyd County, IA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1302097

Green Limestone Wash Plant has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
40
citations
11
significant & substantial
$5,377
proposed penalties
$5,115
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $262 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
28
inspections on record
253
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: 253 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 Wash Plant has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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
40 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $1K in penalties contested before the Commission, $832 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-11-01.
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.
27.5%
significant & substantial
2.5%
high negligence or reckless
27.5%
reasonably likely or greater
75.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 17.5% low, 80.0% moderate, 2.5% 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
CENT20000304M Settlement Zielinski 2000 $1K → $832
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: 2015-06-16, 11 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz2
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (6)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2015-06-16 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 10 0.01 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-06-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2009-04-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-04-15 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 10 0.02 Truck Driver
2004-04-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2004-04-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 1.23 0.15 Laborer, Bullgang
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
2019 0
2018 0
2017 0
2016 4
2015 1
2014 1
2013 2
2012 2
2011 4
2010 5
2009 5
2008 5
2007 5
2006 6
2005 6
2004 5
2003 7
2002 6
2001 4
2000 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Green Limestone Wash 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
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
Show 69 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 1,025 3 1 2926.8
2016 Q3 2,931 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 58 3 0 51724.1
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 1,747 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 488 1 1 2049.2
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 0 0 0
2014 Q3 0 0 0
2014 Q2 12 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 152 1 0 6578.9
2013 Q3 432 1 0 2314.8
2013 Q2 359 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 202 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 637 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,388 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 31 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 777 2 0 2574.0
2011 Q3 1,122 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 282 5 3 17730.5
2011 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,078 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 462 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,357 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 23 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 377 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,599 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,308 3 0 2293.6
2009 Q1 47 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 295 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,693 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,592 5 1 3140.7
2008 Q1 42 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,616 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,918 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,605 2 0 1246.1
2007 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,357 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,724 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,608 3 1 1865.7
2006 Q1 606 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 281 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,842 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 885 2 1 2259.9
2005 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,048 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,686 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,052 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 48 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,313 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,912 2 1 1046.0
2003 Q2 2,550 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 61 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 29 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 986 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,036 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 38 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 771 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 721 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,401 1 0 713.8
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 1,439 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,578 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,202 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 0 6 2

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.