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KELLY MOUNTAIN QUARRY: 77 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by CRH PLC
Elkins, Randolph County, WV  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4603727

KELLY MOUNTAIN QUARRY has $16K 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
5
Years on record
1989–2024
Latest incident
Jul 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
77
citations
13
significant & substantial
$15,892
proposed penalties
$15,042
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $850 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Appalachian Aggregates, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
71
inspections on record
1,611
inspection hours
4.8
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.
77 citations across 1,611 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

KELLY MOUNTAIN QUARRY has $16K 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.
$16K
proposed penalties
$15K
current assessed
$15K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
77 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $6K in penalties contested before the Commission, $5K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2018-04-17.
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.
16.9%
significant & substantial
7.8%
high negligence or reckless
16.9%
reasonably likely or greater
67.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 10.4% low, 81.8% moderate, 7.8% 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.
2 citations taken to the federal commission · 3% of citations on record
  • Settled 2 · 100%
100%
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 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
28%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$9K proposed, $6K 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 2010-06-30.
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
WEVA 2009-1827M Settlement Melick 2011 $6K → $5K
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: 2025-10-09
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
62
samples
26
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg25
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz23
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz10
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz4
Show the individual readings (62)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-10-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2025-10-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 Truck Driver
2025-10-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.96 0.19 Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-10-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Scraper Operator
2025-03-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2025-03-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2025-03-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2025-03-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 1.39 0.24 Utility Man
2025-03-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2023-10-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2023-10-17 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.4 10 0.04 Truck Driver
2023-10-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2023-10-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2023-03-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-03-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 1.03 0.21 Utility Man
2023-03-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 Truck Driver
2023-03-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 Truck Driver
2023-03-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-06-29 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.38 10 0.04 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-06-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 Truck Driver
2022-06-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-06-29 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.8 10 0.08 Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-06-29 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 10 0.02 Utility Man
2021-09-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2021-09-27 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Jackhammer Operator
2021-09-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.81 1.32 0.61 Utility Man
2021-09-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-09-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-07-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2019-07-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2019-07-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.32 Truck Driver
2019-07-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-07-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-11-14 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Utility Man
2018-11-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 Mechanic
2018-11-14 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 Utility Man
2018-11-14 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.4 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-05-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-05-17 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 10 0.01 Truck Driver
2017-05-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 1.38 0.10 Cleanup Man
2017-05-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 1.61 0.14 Cleanup Man
2017-05-17 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 10 0.02 Utility Man
2013-11-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.35 1.95 0.18 Crusher Oper/Worker
2013-11-06 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.27 10 0.03 Utility Man
2013-11-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2013-11-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-04-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.01 1.32 0.77 Ground Control/Timberman
2011-04-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.39 1.21 0.32 Utility Man
2011-04-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.12 1.62 0.69 Oiler, Greaser
2010-05-26 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.43 10 0.04 Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-05-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.29 1.43 0.20 Laborer, Bullgang
2010-05-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-05-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2005-07-28 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.12 10 0.01 Truck Driver
2005-07-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2005-07-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-07-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.27 1.45 0.19 Truck Driver
2005-07-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.27 1.34 0.20 Supervisor, Co. Official
2003-03-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.54 1.78 0.30 Truck Driver
2003-03-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.48 2.08 0.23 Laborer, Bullgang
2003-03-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.78 2.48 0.31 Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-03-26 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 10 0.02 Truck Driver
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.

KELLY MOUNTAIN QUARRY recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ 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
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 West Virginia, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.73 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 * 6.18 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
  1. Black Rock Contracting Inc 1950 to 1984
  2. R H Armstrong Inc 1984 to 2002
  3. Southern West Virginia Asphalt Inc 2002 to 2019
  4. Appalachian Aggregates, LLC 2019 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 14
2025 15
2024 15
2023 13
2022 16
2021 15
2020 15
2019 15
2018 14
2017 13
2016 14
2015 14
2014 14
2013 13
2012 14
2011 15
2010 15
2009 13
2008 14
2007 15
2006 15
2005 15
2004 16
2003 14
2002 21
2001 20
2000 19
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

KELLY MOUNTAIN QUARRY sits in Randolph County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 2.6% 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.
Randolph County, West Virginia · Population 27,782
2.6%
Mining share of county employment
$55,057
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 8,275 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 6,438 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 8,027 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 8,295 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 8,747 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 5,906 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 7,212 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 8,782 0 0 0.0
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 9,010 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 7,342 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 7,607 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 6,904 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 7,905 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 6,710 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 7,996 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 8,390 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 8,423 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 5,567 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 8,198 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 7,886 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 8,031 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 4,777 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 7,653 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 8,539 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 8,043 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 7,306 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 7,365 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 9,374 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 9,339 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 5,565 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 6,427 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 8,623 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 9,236 1 0 108.3
2018 Q1 6,379 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 4,842 3 0 619.6
2017 Q3 6,736 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 6,345 1 0 157.6
2017 Q1 3,303 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 5,481 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 6,959 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 7,166 1 1 139.5
2016 Q1 6,387 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 6,837 1 0 146.3
2015 Q3 7,873 1 0 127.0
2015 Q2 8,007 5 1 624.5
2015 Q1 3,839 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 6,282 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 8,223 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 7,526 3 0 398.6
2014 Q1 3,463 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 5,488 1 0 182.2
2013 Q3 7,700 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 7,381 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 4,431 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 5,166 1 0 193.6
2012 Q3 7,459 5 1 670.3
2012 Q2 8,572 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 7,465 2 0 267.9
2011 Q4 7,653 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 8,365 2 0 239.1
2011 Q2 8,007 2 2 249.8
2011 Q1 7,490 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 6,525 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 7,985 1 0 125.2
2010 Q2 6,880 3 0 436.0
2010 Q1 4,922 1 0 203.2
2009 Q4 6,592 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 6,605 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 5,070 1 0 197.2
2009 Q1 5,294 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 5,771 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 7,450 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 8,287 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 7,233 5 1 691.3
2007 Q4 6,932 2 0 288.5
2007 Q3 9,217 2 0 217.0
2007 Q2 8,463 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 5,158 4 1 775.5
2006 Q4 5,845 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 8,334 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 7,599 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 4,653 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 6,790 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 6,584 1 0 151.9
2005 Q2 9,244 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 5,172 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 7,569 5 1 660.6
2004 Q3 10,347 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 9,315 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 5,560 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 7,721 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 9,780 1 0 102.2
2003 Q2 9,586 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 4,850 3 0 618.6
2002 Q4 7,995 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 9,873 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 10,276 4 1 389.3
2002 Q1 5,188 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 10,913 1 1 91.6
2001 Q3 13,410 7 2 522.0
2001 Q2 12,232 1 0 81.8
2001 Q1 6,662 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 9,285 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 16,243 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 13,864 2 0 144.3
2000 Q1 8,762 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2024 · 1 incident

July 26, 2024 WV · Metal/Non-Metal crusher attendant/operator, pan feeder operator/worker DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Appalachian Aggregates, LLC · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Standard Threshold Shift

2019 · 1 incident

July 2, 2019 WV · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Appalachian Aggregates, LLC · Struck by flying object

Employee was using an air hammer to remove a bushing. The bushing splintered striking the employee in the face. A small sliver of metal was embedded into the employees forehead.

2015 · 1 incident

April 7, 2015 WV · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Southern West Virginia Asphalt Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

While lining up the bolts in the bottom piece to of the crusher the holes in the top side one of the bolts would not line up correctly. Employee used a pry bar to pull on the bolt to. When the bolt lined up to the hole the top side of the cone set into place which pulled the pry bar towards the steel lining of the cone. Employees finger was pinched causing laceration

2007 · 1 incident

August 21, 2007 WV · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Southern West Virginia Asphalt Inc · Struck by falling object

Employee was putting a tail gate on dump truck. One pin was out, one pin was still hanging on top of bed. Employee moved ladder striking old pin, knocking it out of bracket. Pin fell striking employee above the eye.

1989 · 1 incident

April 3, 1989 WV · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
R H Armstrong Inc · Fall from machine

JUMPED OFF MACHINE FORKLIFT INSTEAD OF USING LADDER.