Mining Incidents

JULIAN QUARRY #2 CHESTERFIELD STONE: 157 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

JULIAN MATERIALS, LLC · Surface
Chester, Windsor County, VT  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 4300498

JULIAN QUARRY #2 CHESTERFIELD STONE has $65K in proposed MSHA penalties and $8K outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
157
citations
45
significant & substantial
$65,348
proposed penalties
$57,377
paid to date
88% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $7,971 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
56
inspections on record
666
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: 666 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: 2014-04-18.
On record since 2014.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

JULIAN QUARRY #2 CHESTERFIELD STONE has $65K in proposed MSHA penalties and $8K 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.
$65K
proposed penalties
$65K
current assessed
$57K
paid to date
$8K
outstanding
155 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $1K in penalties contested before the Commission, $824 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-04-15.
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.
29.0%
significant & substantial
12.3%
high negligence or reckless
29.7%
reasonably likely or greater
45.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 27.7% low, 60.0% moderate, 12.3% 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.
10 citations taken to the federal commission · 6% of citations on record
  • Settled 8 · 80%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 2 · 20%
75%
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 4 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
25%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1K proposed, $824 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 2010-02-16.
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 2009-199M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $886 → $616
YORK 2010-168M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $208 → $208
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: 2023-11-01
40%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz52 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
Show the individual readings (8)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2023-11-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.18 1.06 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2023-11-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 0.27 1.04 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2023-11-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.22 0.91 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2023-11-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 0.3 0.83 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2016-09-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2016-09-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 0.65 0.18 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2010-09-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-09-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
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.

JULIAN QUARRY #2 CHESTERFIELD STONE recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2023.

Injury rate, 2023
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 1.78 and the all-US-mining average was 2.10 cases per 100 workers.
In Vermont, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.91 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
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 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. Ghl Construction Corp 1996 to 2009
  2. Chesterfield Stone 2009 to 2013
  3. Julian Enterprises, LLC 2013 to 2018
  4. Julian Materials, LLC 2018 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2025 2
2024 8
2023 29
2022 23
2021 15
2020 6
2019 3
2018 1
2017 2
2016 3
2015 2
2014 1
2013 1
2012 1
2011 1
2010 2
2009 2
2008 1
2007 1
2006 2
2005 2
2004 1
2003 2
2002 1
2001 2
2000 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

JULIAN QUARRY #2 CHESTERFIELD STONE sits in Windsor County, Vermont, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Windsor County, Vermont · Population 57,968
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$75,247
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
2025 Q2 166 6 1 36144.6
2025 Q1 337 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 525 1 0 1904.8
2024 Q3 453 6 0 13245.0
2024 Q2 534 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,876 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 13,874 16 6 1153.2
2023 Q3 14,346 0 0 0.0
Show 90 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q2 15,379 12 5 780.3
2023 Q1 12,827 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 17,684 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 19,126 8 3 418.3
2022 Q2 10,932 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 8,871 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 14,291 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 10,212 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 7,142 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 4,815 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,001 6 2 1999.3
2020 Q3 3,397 18 5 5298.8
2020 Q2 2,057 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,034 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 498 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,280 6 1 1829.3
2019 Q2 612 6 2 9803.9
2019 Q1 463 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 583 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 605 2 0 3305.8
2018 Q2 660 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 920 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,258 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,560 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,490 2 0 1342.3
2017 Q1 646 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,506 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,601 6 3 3747.7
2016 Q2 770 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 483 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 811 3 0 3699.1
2015 Q3 1,040 4 0 3846.2
2015 Q2 1,640 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 1 0
2014 Q3 960 2 0 2083.3
2014 Q2 720 11 5 15277.8
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 480 1 0 2083.3
2013 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 960 3 1 3125.0
2012 Q2 940 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 600 4 1 6666.7
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 440 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 900 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 480 2 1 4166.7
2009 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,350 6 2 4444.4
2009 Q1 1,140 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 348 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 350 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 30 2 0 66666.7
2008 Q1 137 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 200 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 455 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 290 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 450 5 2 11111.1
2006 Q3 390 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 780 5 2 6410.3
2006 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,040 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 415 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 340 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 480 1 0 2083.3
2004 Q1 300 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 420 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 510 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 85 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 115 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 380 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2001 Q4 1,576 2 0 1269.0
2001 Q3 1,040 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 455 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 280 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 280 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 280 8 3 28571.4
2000 Q1 0 0 0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.