Mining Incidents

Kings Town Inc.: 89 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Kings Town Inc. · Surface
Controlled by John M Walker
Kingston, Ulster County, NY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3003459

Kings Town Inc. has $52K in proposed MSHA penalties and $39K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2006
Latest incident
Aug 2006
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
89
citations
27
significant & substantial
$51,822
proposed penalties
$12,384
paid to date
24% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $39,438 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
38
inspections on record
469
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: 469 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Kings Town Inc. has $52K in proposed MSHA penalties and $39K outstanding across 0 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.
$52K
proposed penalties
$52K
current assessed
$12K
paid to date
$39K
outstanding
89 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-04-14.
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.
30.3%
significant & substantial
18.0%
high negligence or reckless
30.3%
reasonably likely or greater
65.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.9% low, 74.2% moderate, 18.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2011-07-19, 15 years ago
33%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
6
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz62 over
Show the individual readings (6)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2006-05-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.99 0.48 2.06 Backhoe Operator
2006-05-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.03 0.62 1.66 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-07-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.5 0.30 Front-end Loader Operator
2006-10-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.62 0.29 Backhoe Operator
2006-10-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.47 0.34 Front-end Loader Operator
2006-05-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.32 0.41 0.78 Front-end Loader 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.
Ownership history
  1. Kings Town Inc. 2003 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2013 5
2012 2
2011 2
2010 2
2009 5
2008 5
2007 6
2006 8
2005 8
2004 8
2003 10
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Kings Town Inc. sits in Ulster County, New York, 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.
Ulster County, New York · Population 182,109
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$81,804
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
2013 Q3 1,456 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 604 9 2 14900.7
2013 Q1 468 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,328 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,289 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,128 7 1 6205.7
2012 Q1 540 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 913 0 0 0.0
Show 32 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2011 Q3 1,600 4 0 2500.0
2011 Q2 840 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 840 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 343 5 1 14577.3
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,394 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,226 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 527 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 907 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 4,672 10 3 2140.4
2008 Q3 3,910 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 3,641 4 0 1098.6
2008 Q1 3,290 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 3,802 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 4,421 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,142 1 1 241.4
2007 Q1 3,136 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,992 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 4,441 1 1 225.2
2006 Q2 5,060 19 6 3754.9
2006 Q1 4,374 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 4,864 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 5,789 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 5,285 4 2 756.9
2005 Q1 3,041 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 3,234 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 4,205 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 3,829 8 3 2089.3
2004 Q1 1,883 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,863 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2006 · 2 incidents

August 21, 2006 NY · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Kings Town Inc. · Struck by falling object

Employees were crushing as they normally do. Injured saw a block out of place under the hammer leg which needed to be pushed back. While he was doing that, a rock fell from the crusher hitting him in the head.

May 19, 2006 NY · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Kings Town Inc. · Struck against stationary object

While carrying detonators on a steep grade, stepped on a small stone & stumbled, pulled a muscle on left leg, behind knee