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IRVINGTON QUARRY: 86 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

LITER'S INC. · Surface
Controlled by John G Liter
Irvington, Breckinridge County, KY  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1500044

IRVINGTON QUARRY has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
14
Years on record
1988–2025
Latest incident
Jun 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
86
citations
22
significant & substantial
$12,429
proposed penalties
$12,429
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See LITER'S INC.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
70
inspections on record
1,338
inspection hours
6.4
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.
86 citations across 1,338 inspection hours.
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: 2011-03-30.
On record since 2011.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

IRVINGTON QUARRY has $12K 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.
$12K
proposed penalties
$12K
current assessed
$12K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
81 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-19.
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.
26.5%
significant & substantial
8.4%
high negligence or reckless
27.7%
reasonably likely or greater
45.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 20.5% low, 71.1% moderate, 8.4% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2025-03-17
5%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
39
samples
22
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz31 over
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz18
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg16
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (39)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2023-06-13 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 12.79 10 1.28 Truck Driver
2025-03-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-03-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2024-03-20 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 10 0.02 Truck Driver
2024-03-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2024-03-20 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.32 10 0.03 Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-03-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-03-20 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.32 10 0.03 Truck Driver
2023-10-17 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.35 10 0.04 Cleanup Man
2023-06-13 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 2.24 10 0.22 Truck Driver
2023-06-13 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 2.07 10 0.21 Truck Driver
2021-04-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.38 Utility Man
2021-04-27 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.2 10 0.02 Truck Driver
2021-04-27 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.83 10 0.08 Crusher Oper/Worker
2021-04-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2019-05-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-05-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-02-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2017-02-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Blaster, Powder Gang
2017-02-07 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.16 10 0.02 Crusher Oper/Worker
2017-02-07 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 10 0.01 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-02-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2013-04-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2013-04-17 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.37 10 0.04 Crusher Oper/Worker
2013-04-17 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 10 0.02 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-04-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2013-04-17 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.17 10 0.02 Utility Man
2008-04-16 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 10 0.02 Truck Driver
2008-04-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2008-04-16 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 10 0.02 Crusher Oper/Worker
2008-04-16 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.21 10 0.02 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2004-10-06 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 10 0.02 Utility Man
2004-10-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 2.3 0.11 Truck Driver
2004-10-06 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 10 0.02 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-07-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2004-07-21 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 10 0.02 Laborer, Bullgang
2001-07-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2001-07-24 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.63 10 0.06 Crusher Oper/Worker
2000-08-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
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.

IRVINGTON 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
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 Kentucky, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.64 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
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 8.63 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2017 * 0.00 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.
Ownership history
  1. Kentucky Stone Company 1950 to 1988
  2. Hanson Aggregates Midwest, Inc. 1988 to 2005
  3. Liter's Inc. 2005 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 15
2025 14
2024 12
2023 13
2022 14
2021 15
2020 13
2019 13
2018 14
2017 15
2016 14
2015 13
2014 13
2013 12
2012 14
2011 15
2010 14
2009 13
2008 12
2007 11
2006 10
2005 13
2004 13
2003 12
2002 12
2001 15
2000 16
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

IRVINGTON QUARRY sits in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 1.4% 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.
Breckinridge County, Kentucky · Population 20,722
1.4%
Mining share of county employment
$53,673
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 5,837 2 1 342.6
2026 Q1 4,215 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 5,864 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 5,838 4 0 685.2
2025 Q2 4,802 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,157 6 0 1900.5
2024 Q4 5,025 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 5,885 3 1 509.8
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 6,203 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,343 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 5,418 1 0 184.6
2023 Q3 5,818 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 6,049 3 0 495.9
2023 Q1 6,496 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 6,290 1 0 159.0
2022 Q3 6,706 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 6,918 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 6,243 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 6,567 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 6,520 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 7,213 1 0 138.6
2021 Q1 5,640 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 5,115 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 6,266 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 5,832 1 0 171.5
2020 Q1 5,950 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 6,705 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 6,136 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 6,744 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 6,482 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 7,346 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 7,134 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 7,218 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 6,562 1 0 152.4
2017 Q4 7,376 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 7,826 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 7,880 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 7,544 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 7,827 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 7,412 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 8,903 3 1 337.0
2016 Q1 7,832 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 7,596 4 3 526.6
2015 Q3 7,062 2 1 283.2
2015 Q2 7,904 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 5,810 2 1 344.2
2014 Q4 7,243 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 9,499 2 0 210.5
2014 Q2 7,602 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 5,199 1 0 192.3
2013 Q4 6,795 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 7,237 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 7,622 1 0 131.2
2013 Q1 4,070 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 7,072 2 0 282.8
2012 Q3 6,721 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 7,266 1 0 137.6
2012 Q1 7,192 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 8,566 1 0 116.7
2011 Q3 8,779 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 8,325 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 7,490 3 2 400.5
2010 Q4 8,245 4 2 485.1
2010 Q3 9,432 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 10,132 1 0 98.7
2010 Q1 7,237 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 8,585 2 2 233.0
2009 Q3 8,623 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 8,391 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 5,705 1 0 175.3
2008 Q4 6,264 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 9,053 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 8,062 2 0 248.1
2008 Q1 5,846 1 0 171.1
2007 Q4 7,041 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 6,659 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 6,386 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 6,131 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 5,057 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 5,360 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 6,894 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 6,091 4 1 656.7
2005 Q4 5,859 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 7,058 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 7,491 1 0 133.5
2005 Q1 6,994 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 6,939 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 6,815 10 3 1467.4
2004 Q2 6,939 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 6,373 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 6,725 1 1 148.7
2003 Q3 7,387 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 6,938 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 5,778 7 1 1211.5
2002 Q4 5,652 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 6,798 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 7,613 1 0 131.4
2002 Q1 6,427 1 0 155.6
2001 Q4 7,148 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 7,769 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 9,394 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 6,746 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 7,675 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 9,987 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 9,824 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 9,702 1 0 103.1
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

14 on file

2025 · 1 incident

June 30, 2025 KY · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
Liter's Inc. · Struck by falling object

Employee was coming down the steps from the #1 screen. When EE got halfway down the steps a rock fell from the #2 conveyor, which is above the steps. The rock struck EE on the top of the head in the center. This caused a laceration on the top of EE's head, which required staples from the hospitals physician.

2020 · 1 incident

July 20, 2020 KY · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Liter's Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

A large piece of metal had lodged in the cone crusher North while trying to remove the metal, the crusher turned and smashed the employee's thumb against the bowl.

2016 · 1 incident

July 29, 2016 KY · Metal/Non-Metal utility man, shift tech, service/dump truck operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Liter's Inc. · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

Employee was changing the pre-screen on a machine and slipped of a platform approximately 3 feet off the ground landing on left shoulder. Suspected rotator cuff injury.

2014 · 1 incident

November 10, 2014 KY · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Liter's Inc. · Fall from machine

Employee was climbing onto D65 Dozer. There was mud on the tracks causing him to slip and fall injuring his shoulder.

2013 · 1 incident

September 12, 2013 KY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Liter's Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was loosening bolts on an electric motor in order to tighten the V Belts, the ratchet & socket slipped and he mashed his thumb.

2009 · 1 incident

December 23, 2009 KY · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Liter's Inc. · Fall from machine

While Employee was climbing up the stairs on a volvo haul truck, he lost his footing and fell to the ground.

2000 · 1 incident

May 8, 2000 KY · Metal/Non-Metal truck driver HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hanson Aggregates Midwest, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS PRYING ON BENT HANDRAIL ON TRUCK TARP PLATFORM THE PRY BAR SLIPPED OFF AND MASHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE BAR AND HANDRAIL AND HAD FOUR STITCHES ON LITTLE FINGER.

1992 · 1 incident

September 21, 1992 KY · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver MACHINERY
Hanson Aggregates Midwest, Inc. · Struck by flying object

HE WAS CUTTING A PIECE OF METAL WITH A TORCH AND A PIECE OF METAL WENT IN HIS LEFT EYE.

1991 · 2 incidents

April 17, 1991 KY · Metal/Non-Metal coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler POWERED HAULAGE
Hanson Aggregates Midwest, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

WHILE LOADING TRUCKS BUCKET OF LOADER HUNG ON TOE IN THE MAIN FLOOR CAUSING SUDDEN STOP. OPERATOR SLIPPED FORWARD BRUISING KNEE.

1990 · 1 incident

1989 · 1 incident

July 25, 1989 KY · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hanson Aggregates Midwest, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE CLEANING WORK AREA OF STEEL ONE PIECE HUNG IN GROSS SPRING UP HITTING HIS R HAND CAUSING LACERATION ON PINKEY FINGER 20 STITCHES

1988 · 2 incidents

June 16, 1988 KY · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kentucky Stone Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS HAMMERING ON SHEET OF METAQL & MISSED IT & HIT HIS LEFT KNEE CAP. HE HAD FRACTURED KNEE & PUT SPLINT ON IT.

March 14, 1988 KY · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kentucky Stone Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS HAMMERING BEARING OFF SHAFT WHEN SLIVER OF METAL CAME OFF PUNCH & WENT INTO HIS LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND. FINGER REQUIRED FOUR SUTURES.