Mining Incidents

Jones Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Bruce Barth; Marie Barth
Harlowton, Wheatland County, MT  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2402742

Jones Quarry has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $5K outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2019–2022
Latest incident
Feb 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
46
citations
13
significant & substantial
$11,110
proposed penalties
$5,953
paid to date
54% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $5,157 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
25
inspections on record
334
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: 334 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Jones Quarry has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $5K outstanding across 2 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$5K
outstanding
42 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-08.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 1,735 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,656 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,031 6 3 1979.5
2025 Q1 2,242 3 2 1338.1
2024 Q4 2,968 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 5,024 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,622 1 0 381.4
2024 Q1 1,064 1 0 939.8
Show 19 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,656 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,550 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 4,746 1 0 210.7
2023 Q1 5,578 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 4,181 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 4,535 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,138 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,808 5 0 1313.0
2021 Q4 3,125 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,592 7 0 1948.8
2021 Q2 4,093 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 4,216 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 6,528 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 4,127 2 1 484.6
2020 Q2 4,212 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 5,682 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,977 2 0 502.9
2019 Q3 4,765 11 4 2308.5
2019 Q2 1,639 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2022 · 1 incident

February 18, 2022 MT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Montana Frontier Sandstone · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee strained back while stacking standup. "We were flat stacking and walking walk into pallets for standup and my lower back started to hurt I woke up Saturday morning and could not move from pain "

2021 · 1 incident

July 22, 2021 MT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Montana Frontier Sandstone · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was splitting rock with a hammer and chisel and missed the chisel and hit hand.

2019 · 1 incident

June 6, 2019 MT · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Montana Frontier Sandstone · Over-exertion in lifting objects

While building stand up pallets the employee lifted a piece of stone and heard EE's elbow pop, and sharp pain go up and down EE's arm. Initially EE thought it was strained, and knowing EE's elbow often pops EE continued work.

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A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.