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JOHNSTOWN QUARRY: 101 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Heidelberg Materials AG
Eohrata NY, Fulton County, NY  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3002966

JOHNSTOWN QUARRY has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2025
Latest incident
Jun 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
101
citations
24
significant & substantial
$21,160
proposed penalties
$21,160
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Heidelberg Materials Northeast LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
36
inspections on record
525
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: 525 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

JOHNSTOWN QUARRY has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$21K
proposed penalties
$21K
current assessed
$21K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
101 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $118 in penalties contested before the Commission, $0 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-18.
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.
23.8%
significant & substantial
4.0%
high negligence or reckless
24.8%
reasonably likely or greater
44.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 34.7% low, 61.4% moderate, 4.0% 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.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 100%
100%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$118 proposed, $0 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 2018-02-26.
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
YORK 2018-0042 Withdrawal McCarthy 2018 $118 → $0
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: 2023-04-17, 3 years ago
10%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
17
samples
10
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz61 over
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz3
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (29)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2019-09-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.31 0.68 1.93 Laborer, Bullgang
2023-04-17 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 1.63 Utility Man
2023-04-17 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 2.46 Utility Man
2022-04-28 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 2.66 10 0.27 Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-04-28 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 6.08 10 0.61 Cleanup Man
2022-04-28 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 6.14 10 0.61 Mechanic
2021-12-07 Cobalt fumes 0 300 0.00 Welder, etc.
2021-12-07 Copper fumes 0 300 0.00 Welder, etc.
2021-12-07 Iron oxide fumes 1.54 20 0.08 Welder, etc.
2021-12-07 Lead fumes 0 450 0.00 Welder, etc.
2021-12-07 Magnesium oxide fumes 0 20 0.00 Welder, etc.
2021-12-07 Manganese fumes 0.29 5 0.06 Welder, etc.
2021-12-07 Molybdenum fumes 0 20 0.00 Welder, etc.
2021-12-07 Nickel fumes 0 3 0.00 Welder, etc.
2021-12-07 Vanadium fumes 0 50 0.00 Welder, etc.
2021-12-07 Zinc oxide fumes 0.09 10 0.01 Welder, etc.
2021-12-07 Arsenic fumes 0 1500 0.00 Welder, etc.
2021-12-07 Beryllium fumes 0 6 0.00 Welder, etc.
2021-12-07 Cadmium oxide fumes 0 100 0.00 Welder, etc.
2021-12-07 Chromium, insoluble 0 3 0.00 Welder, etc.
2019-10-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.37 0.71 0.52 Laborer, Bullgang
2019-09-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-09-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 Crusher Oper/Worker
2016-10-05 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 Mechanic
2016-10-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2016-10-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 1.09 0.17 Crusher Oper/Worker
2015-05-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.42 0.84 0.50 Utility Man
2015-05-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Shovel Operator
2015-05-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.49 0.95 0.52 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.

JOHNSTOWN 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
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 1.77 and the all-US-mining average was 2.08 cases per 100 workers.
In New York, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.24 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
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2016 * 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. Chouiniere'S Trucking & Excavating Inc 1990 to 1995
  2. Carver Sand and Gravel LLC 1995 to 2025
  3. Heidelberg Materials Northeast LLC 2025 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 7
2025 9
2024 11
2023 15
2022 16
2021 21
2020 12
2019 10
2018 9
2017 7
2016 13
2015 8
2014 1
2004 1
2003 1
2002 1
2001 1
2000 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

JOHNSTOWN QUARRY sits in Fulton County, New York, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Fulton County, New York · Population 52,787
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$62,615
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 4,782 2 1 418.2
2026 Q1 3,163 2 0 632.3
2025 Q4 4,668 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 6,069 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 5,388 1 0 185.6
2025 Q1 2,357 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 6,882 1 0 145.3
2024 Q3 5,855 5 0 854.0
Show 54 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 5,589 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,474 2 0 808.4
2023 Q4 3,954 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 5,545 3 0 541.0
2023 Q2 9,142 6 2 656.3
2023 Q1 8,211 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 8,159 11 3 1348.2
2022 Q3 10,493 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 4,892 10 3 2044.2
2021 Q4 10,407 5 2 480.4
2021 Q3 13,702 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 7,276 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 10,685 3 0 280.8
2020 Q4 7,861 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 8,206 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 5,644 4 0 708.7
2020 Q1 822 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 4,251 1 1 235.2
2019 Q3 5,079 1 0 196.9
2019 Q2 7,252 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 3,735 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 5,555 2 1 360.0
2018 Q3 6,569 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 4,805 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 2,120 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 3,360 13 2 3869.0
2017 Q3 5,494 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 4,760 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,238 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,312 3 1 1297.6
2016 Q3 4,519 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 6,956 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 7,222 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 5,134 1 1 194.8
2015 Q3 5,085 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 3,377 1 0 296.1
2015 Q1 20 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 100 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 204 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 388 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 615 7 3 11382.1
2003 Q2 368 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 519 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 464 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 710 9 3 12676.1
2001 Q4 272 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 148 1 0 6756.8
2001 Q2 970 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 1,041 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 787 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 532 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 794 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 0 4 1
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2025 · 1 incident