Mining Incidents

Hardin County Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Vulcan Materials Company
Cecilia, Hardin County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1517332

Hardin County Quarry has $13K 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
5
Years on record
1994–2020
Latest incident
Oct 2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
46
citations
18
significant & substantial
$13,057
proposed penalties
$12,876
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $181 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
61
inspections on record
858
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: 858 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Hardin County Quarry has $13K 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.
$13K
proposed penalties
$13K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
46 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-08-26.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2022 Q4 272 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,125 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 4,192 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,606 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 4,257 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 5,221 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 5,572 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 4,857 0 0 0.0
Show 84 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2020 Q4 4,985 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 5,159 1 1 193.8
2020 Q2 5,617 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 5,635 1 0 177.5
2019 Q4 4,945 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 5,171 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 5,093 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 5,257 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 5,843 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 5,745 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 5,063 1 0 197.5
2018 Q1 3,758 1 0 266.1
2017 Q4 3,164 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,680 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 897 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 3 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 61 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 61 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 61 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 3 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 3 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 3 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 3 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 3 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 3 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 99 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,668 1 1 599.5
2013 Q4 4,496 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 4,466 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 4,955 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 3,675 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 3,809 1 0 262.5
2012 Q3 3,367 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 4,755 3 2 630.9
2012 Q1 4,192 2 0 477.1
2011 Q4 4,491 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 5,367 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 4,537 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 2,841 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 4,417 6 0 1358.4
2010 Q3 5,297 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 5,019 3 2 597.7
2010 Q1 3,206 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 5,110 4 2 782.8
2009 Q3 3,466 3 3 865.6
2009 Q2 4,919 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,255 2 1 886.9
2008 Q4 4,862 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 6,156 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 5,303 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 4,456 5 4 1122.1
2007 Q4 5,772 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 5,600 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 6,508 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 5,678 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 6,401 1 0 156.2
2006 Q3 6,018 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 7,071 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 5,688 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 6,731 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 7,052 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 7,683 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 6,951 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 7,657 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 7,887 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 6,186 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 5,706 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 6,686 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 5,623 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 8,441 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 3,473 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 4,813 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 5,562 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 5,875 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 3,786 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 5,210 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 5,667 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 6,020 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 4,776 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 5,008 1 0 199.7
2000 Q3 6,323 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 7,129 7 1 981.9
2000 Q1 5,327 3 1 563.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2020 · 1 incident

October 13, 2020 KY · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Struck by falling object

Employee was in the process of changing the hammer on the plant rock breaker. As the employee was lining up the bottom pin, the linkage block fell smashing left pinky and ring finger. This resulted in broken bones to both fingers.

2011 · 1 incident

June 7, 2011 KY · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Injured employee was looking at the area where he was going to clean so it could be drilled. He started to cross a berm when he lost his footing and fell. Injured employee bruised both arms and stitches in his ring finger.

2008 · 1 incident

1999 · 1 incident

1994 · 1 incident

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The full compliance file on Hardin County Quarry

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.