Mining Incidents

Jen Rutledge Materials: 10 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Equinunk, Wayne County, PA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3610289

Jen Rutledge Materials has $2K 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
1
Years on record
2023
Latest incident
May 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
10
citations
3
significant & substantial
$1,697
proposed penalties
$1,697
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
17
inspections on record
202
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: 202 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Jen Rutledge Materials 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
10 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-28.
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.
30.0%
significant & substantial
10.0%
high negligence or reckless
30.0%
reasonably likely or greater
50.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 50.0% low, 40.0% moderate, 10.0% 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: 2025-01-16
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
9
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (9)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-01-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2025-01-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Jackhammer Operator
2023-11-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-11-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.33 0.52 Backhoe Operator
2023-11-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2023-07-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.3 0.43 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2023-07-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-03-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2021-03-24 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. Rutledge Unlimited, LLC 2019 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 6
2025 5
2024 5
2023 17
2022 4
2021 5
2020 4
2019 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Jen Rutledge Materials sits in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, 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.
Wayne County, Pennsylvania · Population 51,189
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$62,182
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 3,751 1 0 266.6
2026 Q1 2,379 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 2,514 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,987 2 0 669.6
2025 Q2 2,877 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,327 1 1 429.7
2024 Q4 2,803 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,135 0 0 0.0
Show 20 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 2,169 1 0 461.0
2024 Q1 2,251 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 2,448 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,454 1 0 407.5
2023 Q2 4,560 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,583 1 0 631.7
2022 Q4 2,234 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,602 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,386 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,867 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,563 2 1 780.3
2021 Q3 2,523 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,288 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,479 1 1 403.4
2020 Q4 2,503 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,131 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,549 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,916 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 273 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 134 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2023 · 1 incident

May 12, 2023 PA · Metal/Non-Metal crusher attendant/operator, pan feeder operator/worker HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Rutledge Unlimited, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Jaw crusher clogged. Rock bound in jaw. Lock out the feeder. Manually dropping rocks to break it free. Crushed finger btwn rock and jaw wall.