John E. Jenkins Quarry has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2018
Latest incident
Apr 2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
29
citations
12
significant & substantial
$27,233
proposed penalties
$27,165
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $68 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: 140 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
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: 2015-05-18.
On record since 2015.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
John E. Jenkins Quarry has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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.
$27K
proposed penalties
$27K
current assessed
$27K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
28 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $24K in penalties contested before the Commission, $24K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2018-11-27.
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.
17citations taken to the federal commission · 59% of citations on record
Settled
9 · 53%
Stood as issued
2 · 12%
Vacated or withdrawn
6 · 35%
46%
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 13 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
52%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$49K proposed, $24K 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 2019-06-27.
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: 2017-02-23, 9 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
3
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (3)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2017-02-23
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
2017-02-23
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.28
1.12
0.25
Backhoe Operator
2017-02-23
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.29
2.04
0.14
Backhoe 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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2018
10
2017
10
2016
7
2015
5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
John E. Jenkins Quarry sits in Gaston County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Gaston County, North Carolina · Population 231,485
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$65,472
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
2018 Q4
3,397
1
1
294.4
2018 Q3
5,288
0
0
0.0
2018 Q2
6,002
2
2
333.2
2018 Q1
4,540
0
0
0.0
2017 Q4
3,234
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
3,853
1
0
259.5
2017 Q2
5,604
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
6,104
2
0
327.7
Show 8 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2016 Q4
3,836
0
0
0.0
2016 Q3
4,207
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
3,741
1
0
267.3
2016 Q1
2,982
7
3
2347.4
2015 Q4
3,482
0
0
0.0
2015 Q3
2,600
0
0
0.0
2015 Q2
2,191
15
6
6846.2
2015 Q1
425
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2018 · 1 incident
April 20, 2018NC · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
John E. Jenkins, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Cutting edge was in the back of a pick up truck. EE put fingers in the bolt holes to pull the cutting edge to the end of the tail gate, EE stuck fingers in the bolt holes, finger became entrapped in the bolt hole and the tail gate, when EE pulled finger out, it had lacerated the tip of right middle finger.