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JML QUARRIES INC has $216K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, with $2K currently outstanding across 6 contested dockets.

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JML QUARRIES INC: 369 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

JML QUARRIES INC · Surface

Controlled by Bernas-Bowdren Holdings Inc

Wurtsboro, Sullivan County, NY · Active

MSHA Mine ID: 3000973

JML QUARRIES INC has $216K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 6 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 6
Years on record: 1986–2017
Latest incident: Dec 2017

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

369

citations

significant & substantial

$215,810

proposed penalties

$167,496

paid to date

78% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $48,314 gap.

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

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Inspection activity

MSHA inspections since 2000

inspections on record

1,619

inspection hours

22.8

citations per 100 inspection hours

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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.

369 citations across 1,619 inspection hours.

Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Imminent-danger orders

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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.

Section 107(a) orders

Most recent order: 2022-05-03.

On record since 2022.

Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Penalty disposition

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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.

$216K

proposed penalties

$170K

current assessed

$167K

paid to date

$2K

outstanding

364 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.

Of $102K in penalties contested before the Commission, $55K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-14.

Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

Violation severity profile

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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.

25.3%

significant & substantial

8.2%

high negligence or reckless

25.3%

reasonably likely or greater

51.4%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 35.9% low, 56.0% moderate, 8.2% high, 0.0% reckless.

Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

When citations were contested

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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.

30 citations taken to the federal commission · 8% of citations on record

Settled 30 · 100%

100%

S&S designation survived the contest

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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 8 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

45%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$102K proposed, $55K 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 2025-11-19.

Contested penalties

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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
YORK 2025-0052	Settlement	Paez	2026	$58K → $26K
YORK 2025-0057	Settlement	Paez	2026	$30K → $22K
YORK 2007-34M	Settlement	Bulluck	2008	$9K → $5K
YORK 2026-0012	Settlement	Young	2026	$2K → $2K
YORK 2007-51M	Settlement	Bulluck	2008	$800 → $400
YORK 2009-119M	Settlement	Lesnick	2010	$729 → $525

Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

Health sampling

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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)

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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: 2026-04-14

19%

of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit

samples

limit-tested

Most sampled contaminants

Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz204 over
Respirable dust, <.1mg9
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz2
Arsenic fumes1

Show the individual readings (46)

Date	Contaminant	Concentration	Limit	Conc / limit	Occupation
2022-05-10	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	1.15	0.72	1.60	Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-05-10	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	1.26	0.57	2.21	Laborer, Bullgang
2005-07-12	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.32	0.32	1.00	Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2002-11-26	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.42	0.29	1.45	Crusher Oper/Worker
2026-04-14	Respirable dust, <.1mg	0			Crusher Oper/Worker
2026-04-14	Respirable dust, <.1mg	0			Truck Driver
2023-09-13	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.12			Utility Man
2023-09-13	Respirable dust, <.1mg	0			Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-07-07	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.3	0.67	0.45	Laborer, Bullgang
2022-07-07	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.5	0.74	0.68	Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-05-10	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.44	0.53	0.83	Laborer, Bullgang
2022-05-10	Respirable dust, <.1mg	0			Crusher Oper/Worker
2018-04-03	Respirable dust, <.1mg	0			Truck Driver
2018-04-03	Respirable dust, <.1mg	0			Front-end Loader Operator
2018-04-03	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.3	0.33	0.91	Crusher Oper/Worker
2018-04-03	Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz	0.16			Shovel Operator
2014-03-26	Respirable dust, <.1mg	0			Truck Driver
2010-02-03	Nickel fumes	0	1	0.00	Welder, etc.
2010-02-03	Lead fumes	0	150	0.00	Welder, etc.
2010-02-03	Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz	0.3			Front-end Loader Operator
2010-02-03	Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz	0.78			Welder, etc.
2010-02-03	Arsenic fumes	0.34	500	0.00	Welder, etc.
2010-02-03	Beryllium fumes	0	2	0.00	Welder, etc.
2010-02-03	Cadmium oxide fumes	0	100	0.00	Welder, etc.
2010-02-03	Chromium, insoluble	0	1	0.00	Welder, etc.
2010-02-03	Cobalt fumes	0.13	100	0.00	Welder, etc.
2010-02-03	Copper fumes	0.78	100	0.01	Welder, etc.
2010-02-03	Iron oxide fumes	0.08	10	0.01	Welder, etc.
2010-02-03	Magnesium oxide fumes	0	10	0.00	Welder, etc.
2010-02-03	Manganese fumes	0.02	5	0.00	Welder, etc.
2010-02-03	Molybdenum fumes	0	10	0.00	Welder, etc.
2010-02-03	Vanadium fumes	0.02	50	0.00	Welder, etc.
2010-02-03	Zinc oxide fumes	0	5	0.00	Welder, etc.
2005-07-12	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.31	0.55	0.56	Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-07-12	Respirable dust, <.1mg	0			Washer Operator
2005-07-12	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.32	0.52	0.62	Utility Man
2005-07-12	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.15	0.29	0.52	Truck Driver
2004-05-19	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.18	1.52	0.12	Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-05-19	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.4	0.64	0.63	Mechanic
2004-05-19	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.18	0.75	0.24	Truck Driver
2004-05-19	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.25	1.69	0.15	Front-end Loader Operator
2003-05-06	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.14	0.24	0.58	Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-11-26	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.34	1.01	0.34	Truck Driver
2002-11-26	Respirable dust, <.1mg	0			Truck Driver
2002-11-26	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.45	0.75	0.60	Backhoe Operator
2002-11-26	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.12	0.42	0.29	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.

Injury rate, 2025

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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 New York, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.08 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
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 *	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

Sullivan Highway Products Inc 1950 to 1988
Sullivan Lafarge 1988 to 1995
JML Quarries Inc 1995 to present

Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Workforce and production

Year	Employees
2026	14
2025	16
2024	17
2023	16
2022	14
2021	14
2020	14
2019	14
2018	16
2017	16
2016	16
2015	18
2014	19
2013	16
2012	14
2011	11
2010	9
2009	11
2008	12
2007	15
2006	13
2005	11
2004	14
2003	10
2002	18
2001	17
2000	15

Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Local economic context

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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.

Sullivan County, New York · Population 79,147

0.3%

Mining share of county employment

$69,826

Median household income

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

Quarterly safety rates

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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	8,071	8	0	991.2
2026 Q1	4,190	4	0	954.7
2025 Q4	6,889	0	0	0.0
2025 Q3	9,109	7	0	768.5
2025 Q2	9,738	0	0	0.0
2025 Q1	6,142	11	6	1790.9
2024 Q4	8,125	0	0	0.0
2024 Q3	10,688	0	0	0.0

Show 97 earlier quarters

Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	S&S	Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2	10,036	32	9	3188.5
2024 Q1	6,658	8	1	1201.6
2023 Q4	8,604	0	0	0.0
2023 Q3	11,222	1	0	89.1
2023 Q2	11,092	27	9	2434.2
2023 Q1	5,334	8	0	1499.8
2022 Q4	7,007	0	0	0.0
2022 Q3	10,536	0	0	0.0
2022 Q2	8,330	10	4	1200.5
2022 Q1	4,120	8	2	1941.7
2021 Q4	8,287	0	0	0.0
2021 Q3	10,335	0	0	0.0
2021 Q2	8,806	10	0	1135.6
2021 Q1	3,867	0	0	0.0
2020 Q4	8,114	0	0	0.0
2020 Q3	9,576	5	1	522.1
2020 Q2	7,362	0	0	0.0
2020 Q1	4,477	3	0	670.1
2019 Q4	6,455	0	0	0.0
2019 Q3	9,637	5	2	518.8
2019 Q2	9,642	0	0	0.0
2019 Q1	4,731	4	0	845.5
2018 Q4	8,095	0	0	0.0
2018 Q3	11,068	0	0	0.0
2018 Q2	7,595	14	3	1843.3
2018 Q1	7,436	0	0	0.0
2017 Q4	7,827	5	1	638.8
2017 Q3	10,855	9	0	829.1
2017 Q2	11,734	0	0	0.0
2017 Q1	7,870	10	0	1270.6
2016 Q4	10,658	8	0	750.6
2016 Q3	12,910	0	0	0.0
2016 Q2	10,928	6	0	549.0
2016 Q1	6,710	2	0	298.1
2015 Q4	14,627	0	0	0.0
2015 Q3	13,384	0	0	0.0
2015 Q2	13,980	0	0	0.0
2015 Q1	6,316	6	1	950.0
2014 Q4	12,239	0	0	0.0
2014 Q3	14,462	0	0	0.0
2014 Q2	13,143	0	0	0.0
2014 Q1	6,460	4	1	619.2
2013 Q4	12,726	0	0	0.0
2013 Q3	14,216	4	2	281.4
2013 Q2	10,808	7	3	647.7
2013 Q1	4,582	0	0	0.0
2012 Q4	8,384	0	0	0.0
2012 Q3	10,639	5	1	470.0
2012 Q2	9,341	0	0	0.0
2012 Q1	3,000	2	0	666.7
2011 Q4	7,053	0	0	0.0
2011 Q3	9,575	3	1	313.3
2011 Q2	5,573	0	0	0.0
2011 Q1	1,077	3	0	2785.5
2010 Q4	6,468	0	0	0.0
2010 Q3	8,304	10	7	1204.2
2010 Q2	6,979	0	0	0.0
2010 Q1	694	1	1	1440.9
2009 Q4	7,712	0	0	0.0
2009 Q3	8,930	0	0	0.0
2009 Q2	5,776	0	0	0.0
2009 Q1	1,383	2	2	1446.1
2008 Q4	6,395	0	0	0.0
2008 Q3	9,292	0	0	0.0
2008 Q2	7,415	1	0	134.9
2008 Q1	3,616	8	2	2212.4
2007 Q4	8,027	0	0	0.0
2007 Q3	10,875	28	10	2574.7
2007 Q2	9,061	0	0	0.0
2007 Q1	2,935	3	0	1022.1
2006 Q4	6,406	0	0	0.0
2006 Q3	9,015	12	1	1331.1
2006 Q2	7,430	0	0	0.0
2006 Q1	3,828	9	0	2351.1
2005 Q4	6,730	0	0	0.0
2005 Q3	7,906	21	9	2656.2
2005 Q2	6,759	0	0	0.0
2005 Q1	2,266	3	0	1323.9
2004 Q4	9,796	0	0	0.0
2004 Q3	10,302	5	0	485.3
2004 Q2	9,380	1	1	106.6
2004 Q1	2,752	4	2	1453.5
2003 Q4	6,414	0	0	0.0
2003 Q3	8,020	0	0	0.0
2003 Q2	5,633	0	0	0.0
2003 Q1	2,357	0	0	0.0
2002 Q4	7,057	8	3	1133.6
2002 Q3	11,389	0	0	0.0
2002 Q2	9,723	0	0	0.0
2002 Q1	6,566	1	0	152.3
2001 Q4	12,303	0	0	0.0
2001 Q3	12,961	0	0	0.0
2001 Q2	8,576	0	0	0.0
2001 Q1	4,885	2	2	409.4
2000 Q3	11,975	0	0	0.0
2000 Q2	10,082	0	0	0.0
2000 Q1	6,822	4	3	586.3

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2017 · 1 incident

December 7, 2017 NY · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

JML Quarries Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Repairing the Hydraulic Line on the drill, slipped on oil, struck head with contusion to back.

2016 · 1 incident

May 5, 2016 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)

JML Quarries Inc · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was tested and left ear has a severe hearing loss at some high frequencies. Right indicates a moderate hearing loss at some high frequencies.

2013 · 1 incident

August 10, 2013 NY · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator MACHINERY

JML Quarries Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Reaching over the drill steel, pulling on the air line when something popped in chest.

1998 · 1 incident

September 21, 1998 NY · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY

JML Quarries Inc · Struck by powered moving object

CRANE WAS PICKING A USED CONCRETE BEAM OFF A LOWBOY TRAILER. THE CONCRETE FAILED ON THE RIGHT SIDE LETTING THE CABLE UP INTO THE REBAR. THE CABLE SLID TO CENTER CAUSING ALL THE LOAD TO BE TRA NSFERRED TO LEFT SIDE CREATING EXCESSIVE LOAD ON THE BOOM. BOOM BENT TO LEFT & CAME DOWN. THE INJURED WALKED FROM RIGHT SIDE TO LEFT & WAS WALKING UNDER BOOM WHEN STRUCK ON HEAD.

1995 · 1 incident

June 29, 1995 NY · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE

JML Quarries Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS GREASING A ROTARY SCREEN. RIGHT HAND CAUGHT AND PULLED BETWEEN GEARS. HAND WAS CRUSHED. SUBSEQUENTLY LOST THUMB AND TWO FINGERS.

1986 · 1 incident

August 25, 1986 NY · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Sullivan Highway Products Inc · Struck by falling object

REPLACING HEAVY3SPRING IN EUCLID SPRING SLIPPED AND FELL ON MECHANIC

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JML QUARRIES INC has $216K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 6 contested dockets.

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.

JML QUARRIES INC recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

JML QUARRIES INC sits in Sullivan County, New York, where the Census mining category is 0.3% of county employment.