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: 209 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
HOMER QUARRY has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
9 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-15.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2025-07-15
7
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (7)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-07-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-07-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2025-07-15
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.2
Truck Driver
2022-09-27
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
Truck Driver
2022-09-27
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-09-27
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.18
Front-end Loader Operator
2022-09-27
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.
HOMER QUARRY recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2024.
Injury rate, 2024
ⓘ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 1.77 and the all-US-mining average was 2.08 cases per 100 workers.
In Georgia, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.34 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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
7
2025
8
2024
9
2023
8
2022
5
2021
2
2001
3
2000
5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
HOMER QUARRY sits in Banks County, Georgia, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Banks County, Georgia · Population 18,757
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$68,830
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
EE WAS DRIVING TOO FAST FOR CONDITIONS ON QUARRY PIT ROAD AND LOST CONTROL OF HIS PICK UP AND STRUCK PIT LOADER IN THE TIRE/WHEEL. TRUCK AIR BAG DEPLOYED AND GAVE EE CHEST AND NECK STRAIN. AFT ER X RAYS REVEALED NO PROBLEMS, EE WENT HOME ANDWAS FINE AFTER WEEKEND OF REST.
1998 · 1 incident
January 9, 1998GA · Metal/Non-Metaldriller, highwall operator, highwall drill operatorMACHINERY
OPERATOR WENT OVER CLIFF FACE WHEN A LARGE BODY OF MATERIAL SLID OFF OF CLIFF WALL. EMPLOYEE HADON SAFETY BELT AND 10 FT OF LANDYARD WHICH SAVED HIS FALL. EMPLOYEE SMASHED HIS RIGHT KNEE ON RO CKS TUMBLING OVER WITH HIM CAUSING A LARGE CONTUSION.
THE CHUTE AT THE #1 CONVEYOR THAT HAD PLUGGED WITH OVERSIZED MATERIAL, A ROCK FELLL STRIKING HIM ON HIS LEFT RING FINGER.
February 22, 1997GA · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
WHILE REPLACING BOOM CABLE ON CRANE. EE WAS COMING DOWN TO COUNTER WEIGHT HE GRABBED HAND RAIL ON BACK OF CRANE, HAND RAIL BROKE OFF HE FELL APPROX. 7 FT LANDING ON HIS BACK FRACTURING RIB ON LOWER LEFT SIDE.
January 20, 1997GA · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER OUT OF HIS TRUCK. HE SLIPPED & FELL APPROX 6'. HE TRIED TO BREAK HIS FALL & LANDED ON HIS LEFT ARM & ELBOW. HE WAS TAKEN TO OUR LOCAL NEIGHBOR HEALTH SERVICE. AFTER X-RAYS TAKEN HE WAS SENT TO N.E. ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC FOR FURTHER EVALUATION.
1996 · 1 incident
September 20, 1996GA · Metal/Non-Metalcoal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shovelerPOWERED HAULAGE
EMP WAS KNEELING DOWN AT PASSENGER SIDE WINDOW TO RETRIEVE MSGS FROM ANOTHER EMP WHEN TIRE TRUCK BACKED UP HITTING THE CAR AND PINNING 1ST EMP BETWEEN MIRROR AND BACK OF TRUCK. TRUCK INVOLVED BELONGED TO TIRE CENTER INC. DRIVER STATED HE DID NOT SEE CAR OR EMP. CAR WAS TO PASSENGER SIDE OF TRUCK TOWARD REAR.
1994 · 1 incident
December 9, 1994GA · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverHANDLING OF MATERIALS
STEPPED ON TAILGATE OF PICKUP TO REACH FOR TOOL RIGHT KNEE POPPED OUT.
1993 · 1 incident
September 17, 1993GA · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
BLOWN HYDRAULIC HOSE ON DOZER CAUSED OIL TO HIT EXHAUST AND BUST INTO FLAMES, CAUSING BURN ON EXPOSED SKIN OF LOWER BACK OF EMPLOYEE.
1989 · 1 incident
September 21, 1989GA · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN REPAIRING SCREEN DECK CHUTES & WAS CLIMBING OFF THE CONVEYOR UPON COMPLETION OF HIS WORK HE LOST FOOTING ON THE ROUND ROCK RUBBLE ON THE GROUND
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