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HOGAN QUARRY: 71 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Estate of Robert Jones
VALLEY SPRINGS, Calaveras County, CA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0404819

HOGAN QUARRY has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 10 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
1986–2013
Latest incident
Jan 2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
71
citations
11
significant & substantial
$8,123
proposed penalties
$8,016
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $107 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Foothill Materials, Inc.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
68
inspections on record
842
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: 842 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.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2024-11-20.
On record since 2024.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

HOGAN QUARRY has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 10 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
70 assessments are final orders; 10 contested dockets.
Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $620 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-02.
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.
15.7%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
15.7%
reasonably likely or greater
40.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 8.6% low, 91.4% moderate, 0.0% 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 · 20% of citations on record
  • Settled 6 · 43%
  • Stood as issued 5 · 36%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 3 · 21%
33%
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 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
61%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1K proposed, $560 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 2013-05-29.
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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST 2008-1143M Dismissal Lesnick 2009 $400 → $0
WEST 2013-852M Settlement Simonton 2013 $200 → $200
WEST 2010-804M Settlement Gill 2010 $200 → $100
WEST 2006-192M Dismissal Barbour 2006 $124 → $0
WEST 2004-110-M Dismissal Manning 2004 $120 → $60
WEST 2012-862M Vacate Miller 2013 $112 → $0
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: 2024-11-20
33%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
19
samples
6
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz62 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg12
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (19)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2005-07-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.89 0.48 1.85 Laborer, Bullgang
2002-06-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.69 0.61 1.13 Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-11-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.44 0.71 0.62 Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-11-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2019-07-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Screen/Scalper Operator
2015-05-06 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.2 Truck Driver
2015-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-03-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-03-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-10-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.3 0.8 0.38 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-07-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-07-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.36 0.77 0.47 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-07-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2005-07-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.83 0.16 Truck Driver
2002-06-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2002-06-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-06-04 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. Claude C Wood Company 1986 to 1992
  2. Foothill Materials, Inc. 1992 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 8
2025 7
2024 7
2023 6
2022 6
2021 6
2020 6
2019 8
2018 7
2017 7
2016 6
2015 5
2014 6
2013 7
2012 8
2011 8
2010 6
2009 7
2008 8
2007 9
2006 8
2005 9
2004 8
2003 7
2002 6
2001 6
2000 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

HOGAN QUARRY sits in Calaveras County, California, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Calaveras County, California · Population 45,995
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$79,877
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 4,091 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 3,948 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 4,224 1 0 236.7
2025 Q3 3,966 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,053 1 0 246.7
2025 Q1 3,432 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,253 3 2 922.2
2024 Q3 3,833 0 0 0.0
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 3,791 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,801 1 0 263.1
2023 Q4 4,277 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,487 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,309 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,557 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3,150 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,748 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,480 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,264 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,426 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,096 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,438 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,344 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,413 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,236 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,705 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,760 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,945 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,494 2 1 572.4
2019 Q2 3,649 1 0 274.0
2019 Q1 2,987 1 0 334.8
2018 Q4 3,128 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,612 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 3,110 3 0 964.6
2018 Q1 3,209 3 0 934.9
2017 Q4 3,314 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 3,864 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,513 1 0 284.7
2017 Q1 2,690 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 3,084 1 0 324.3
2016 Q3 2,364 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,795 1 1 557.1
2016 Q1 1,445 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2,110 1 0 473.9
2015 Q3 2,244 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,089 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,786 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,965 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,132 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,761 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 3,126 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 3,417 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 3,037 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 3,325 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 3,394 2 0 589.3
2012 Q4 3,297 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 3,382 6 0 1774.1
2012 Q2 3,411 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 4,447 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 3,969 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 4,709 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 3,763 3 1 797.2
2011 Q1 3,630 2 0 551.0
2010 Q4 3,608 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 2,777 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 2,361 1 0 423.5
2010 Q1 2,615 1 0 382.4
2009 Q4 3,468 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 4,005 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 3,481 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 3,478 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 4,313 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 2,847 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 4,801 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 4,398 2 0 454.8
2007 Q4 4,664 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 4,503 2 0 444.1
2007 Q2 4,701 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 4,662 3 0 643.5
2006 Q4 4,231 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 4,657 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 4,684 1 0 213.5
2006 Q1 3,876 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 4,495 1 0 222.5
2005 Q3 4,659 1 1 214.6
2005 Q2 4,327 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 4,096 1 0 244.1
2004 Q4 3,734 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 4,671 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 4,598 2 1 435.0
2004 Q1 3,722 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 3,239 3 0 926.2
2003 Q3 3,187 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 3,583 1 0 279.1
2003 Q1 3,529 1 0 283.4
2002 Q4 2,829 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 3,131 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 3,149 2 0 635.1
2002 Q1 2,975 2 1 672.3
2001 Q4 2,576 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,460 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 2,840 1 1 352.1
2001 Q1 2,795 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 3,146 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,779 1 1 359.8
2000 Q2 2,930 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,905 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

7 on file

2013 · 1 incident

January 15, 2013 CA · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Foothill Materials, Inc. · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employees was rounding the corner of a water tank and slipped in the mud. Employee landed on his right shoulder

2009 · 1 incident

September 4, 2009 CA · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec OTHER
Foothill Materials, Inc. · Unclassified, insufficient data

PERSON IS NOT A MINER: Calaveras County EE (Air Pollution Control Officer) was walking to his truck and seemed to just pass out falling to the ground. Witness stated he did not trip or slip; he just stopped walking and fell straight down.

2008 · 1 incident

May 15, 2008 CA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Foothill Materials, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee had just signed his time card and was heading toward his vehicle. Employee crossed the scale and stepped off and twisted his ankle. The height of the scale was 18 inches.

2006 · 1 incident

October 16, 2006 CA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Foothill Materials, Inc. · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Worker was opening cover on loader to check transmission fluid. His finger was jammed by door latch opening the door.

2000 · 1 incident

May 16, 2000 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Foothill Materials, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE USING A RAZOR-EDGED KNIFE TO CUT WIPER MATERIAL ON A CONVEYOR, EE CUT HIS LEFT LEG JUST ABOVE KNEE. LACERATION APPROX ONE HALF INCH LONG, NEED TWO SUTURES.

1998 · 1 incident

June 23, 1998 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Foothill Materials · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS REMOVING BOLTS FROM A CONVEYOR WITH A HAND WRENCH. HIS LEFT SMALL FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN WRENCH AND CONVEYOR FRAME.

1986 · 1 incident

June 3, 1986 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Foothill Materials · Struck by falling object

EMP INJURED WHI5E OPERATING JAW CRUSHER. HE HAD LEFT OPERATORS SEAT WHILE MATERIAL WAS BEING FED INTO JAW AND ROCK SLID DOWN AND STRUCK HIS FOOT