Mining Incidents

Jackson Quarry: 1 recorded fatality Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Vulcan Materials Company
Pendergrass, Jackson County, GA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0901264

Jackson Quarry has $291K in proposed MSHA penalties and $98K outstanding across 9 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2022
Latest incident
Jun 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2022
14
citations
9
significant & substantial
$290,767
proposed penalties
$16,310
paid to date
6% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $274,457 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2022
11
inspections on record
296
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: 296 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Jackson Quarry has $291K in proposed MSHA penalties and $98K outstanding across 9 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.
$291K
proposed penalties
$114K
current assessed
$16K
paid to date
$98K
outstanding
13 assessments are final orders; 9 contested dockets.
Of $291K in penalties contested before the Commission, $114K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-03-08.
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.
69.2%
significant & substantial
46.2%
high negligence or reckless
69.2%
reasonably likely or greater
53.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 15.4% low, 38.5% moderate, 46.2% 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.
11 citations taken to the federal commission · 79% of citations on record
  • Settled 11 · 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 9 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
61%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$291K proposed, $114K 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 2025-03-21.
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
SE 2023-0172 Settlement Young 2025 $257K → $93K
SE 2024-0010 Settlement Young 2024 $13K → $6K
SE 2023-0151 Settlement Young 2024 $7K → $7K
SE 2025-0001 Settlement Young 2025 $6K → $4K
SE 2024-0011 Settlement Young 2024 $6K → $2K
SE 2022-0193 Settlement Young 2024 $909 → $148
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: 2026-01-07
7
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-01-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2026-01-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2026-01-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2026-01-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2023-07-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-07-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2023-07-26 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.

Jackson Quarry recorded 0.00 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.
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 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Georgia, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.20 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 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 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. Vulcan Construction Materials LLC 2022 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 13
2025 13
2024 12
2023 12
2022 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Jackson Quarry sits in Jackson County, Georgia, 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.
Jackson County, Georgia · Population 80,640
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$85,012
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 7,288 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 7,489 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 8,011 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 7,862 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 7,926 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 7,490 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 6,894 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 7,088 0 0 0.0
Show 9 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 6,274 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 7,653 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 6,863 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 5,985 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 7,176 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 7,226 3 1 415.2
2022 Q4 6,367 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 4,207 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 828 2 1 2415.5

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
June 17, 2022 GA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer Fatality · MACHINERY
Vulcan Construction Materials LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

A contract miner died when the compactor EE was operating overturned, pinning EE beneath the cab. As the compactor was traveling in reverse, the compactor's left tire went off a four-foot embankment causing the compactor to overturn.