Hoover Materials LLC has $11K 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
7
Years on record
2018–2025
Latest incident
Apr 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
39
citations
6
significant & substantial
$11,237
proposed penalties
$10,828
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $409 gap.
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: 467 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Hoover Materials LLC has $11K 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
37 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $1K in penalties contested before the Commission, $650 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-20.
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.
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.
1citations taken to the federal commission · 3% of citations on record
Settled
1 · 100%
100%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
39%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1K proposed, $650 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 2018-03-19.
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.
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: 2025-10-21
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (6)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-10-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.54
1.3
0.42
Utility Man
2023-07-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2023-07-19
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.31
10
0.03
Front-end Loader Operator
2019-12-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.3
Utility Man
2019-12-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.35
Utility Man
2016-05-12
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
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.
Hoover Materials LLC recorded 7.99 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ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.
7.99
total case rate
4.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Tennessee, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.25 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.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2025 *
7.99
4.00
0.000
2024 *
3.88
3.88
0.000
2023 *
3.86
3.86
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018 *
5.70
0.00
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
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
22
2025
20
2024
24
2023
25
2022
23
2021
19
2020
18
2019
17
2018
17
2017
16
2016
4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Hoover Materials LLC sits in Davidson County, Tennessee, 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.
Davidson County, Tennessee · Population 709,846
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$75,664
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
14,238
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
13,454
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
12,239
1
0
81.7
2025 Q3
13,352
5
0
374.5
2025 Q2
12,674
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
11,790
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
11,379
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
13,307
4
1
300.6
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
14,306
1
0
69.9
2024 Q1
12,496
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
14,048
5
0
355.9
2023 Q3
13,298
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
11,628
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
12,896
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
13,977
3
0
214.6
2022 Q3
14,212
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
11,034
2
1
181.3
2022 Q1
11,246
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
12,066
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
12,888
4
0
310.4
2021 Q2
10,462
0
0
0.0
2021 Q1
10,455
0
0
0.0
2020 Q4
10,781
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
10,802
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
11,319
0
0
0.0
2020 Q1
10,558
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
10,927
0
0
0.0
2019 Q3
10,651
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
7,930
1
0
126.1
2019 Q1
8,280
0
0
0.0
2018 Q4
7,955
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
8,956
0
0
0.0
2018 Q2
9,973
2
0
200.5
2018 Q1
8,200
0
0
0.0
2017 Q4
9,425
3
0
318.3
2017 Q3
9,248
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
7,881
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
5,764
1
0
173.5
2016 Q4
5,696
0
0
0.0
2016 Q3
984
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
715
0
0
0.0
2016 Q1
574
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
7 on file
2025 · 3 incidents
April 11, 2025TN · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Employee was cleaning out a toolbox in the shop. A utility knife with the blade open was in the bottom which EE cut EE's finger on. EE was taken to Concentra walk-in clinic where they medically glued the cut closed. No impairment and no lost time.
March 6, 2025TN · Metal/Non-Metaldrill operatorMACHINERY
A subcontractor (Two Eight Drilling) was moving a drilling machine above the high wall with the drill in the air. The piece of equipment started to roll over. As it did, the subcontractor's operator, jumped out of the cab. In doing so, EE fractured EE's cheekbone, broke EE's arm, and had a laceration on the side of EE's head. All are non-life threatening.
January 30, 2025TN · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee fell approximately 5 feet down from scaffolding while working on primary crusher. Employee has 2 fractured vertebrae and a hematoma in thigh, all of which are non-surgical injuries.
2024 · 2 incidents
August 7, 2024TN · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Employee changing drive belts on feeder motor. Come-along holding motor broke which resulted in the motor base dropping on employee's hand lacerating EE's little finger and possibly injuring other fingers.
July 11, 2024TN · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Laying out future blast holes when rock and debris began falling from the above bench area.
2023 · 1 incident
January 20, 2023TN · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanPOWERED HAULAGE
Hoover Materials LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Employee turned to walk away from skid steer after talking to operator. When skid steer started to move, left foot of employee was run over. Damage - severe bone bruising, 6 different fractures in EE's toes and crushed nerves. Employee was released on modified duty day of accident. Used crutches and a boot on the left foot.