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.
182 citations across 1,313 inspection hours.
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: 2013-08-30.
On record since 2013.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
Kittrell Quarry has $41K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 8 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.
$41K
proposed penalties
$40K
current assessed
$39K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
177 assessments are final orders; 8 contested dockets.
Of $14K in penalties contested before the Commission, $13K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-24.
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.
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.
28citations taken to the federal commission · 15% of citations on record
Settled
25 · 89%
Stood as issued
2 · 7%
Vacated or withdrawn
1 · 4%
56%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 9 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
7%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$13K proposed, $12K 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2023-08-22.
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.
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: 2024-07-10
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
41
samples
23
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz25
Respirable dust, <.1mg12
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz3
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (41)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2024-07-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.21
0.85
0.25
Backhoe Operator
2024-07-10
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.19
Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-07-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-07-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.2
0.67
0.30
Utility Man
2024-07-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2023-05-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.21
0.71
0.30
Utility Man
2023-05-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2023-05-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2023-05-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.17
0.71
0.24
Utility Man
2022-03-29
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.39
Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-03-29
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.34
1.08
0.31
Utility Man
2022-03-29
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.17
0.57
0.30
Utility Man
2022-03-29
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.21
0.36
0.58
Utility Man
2022-03-29
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.23
0.41
0.56
Crusher Oper/Worker
2021-01-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2021-01-13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.21
Utility Man
2021-01-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2021-01-13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.23
0.7
0.33
Utility Man
2021-01-13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.53
0.69
0.77
Utility Man
2020-07-22
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.25
0.79
0.32
Crusher Oper/Worker
2020-07-22
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.58
0.64
0.91
Utility Man
2020-07-22
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.3
0.36
0.83
Utility Man
2020-07-22
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.39
Backhoe Operator
2020-07-22
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2019-01-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2019-01-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2019-01-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.23
0.79
0.29
Utility Man
2018-02-15
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.13
10
0.01
Truck Driver
2018-02-15
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.35
0.42
0.83
Utility Man
2018-02-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2018-02-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2018-02-15
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.16
0.46
0.35
Crusher Oper/Worker
2016-11-03
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.13
0.97
0.13
Backhoe Operator
2016-11-03
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.12
0.78
0.15
Utility Man
2016-11-03
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.16
1.13
0.14
Backhoe Operator
2016-11-03
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.13
0.68
0.19
Crusher Oper/Worker
2012-05-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2007-08-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.49
1.42
0.35
Utility Man
2003-06-25
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.18
1.15
0.16
Bulldozer Operator
2002-05-30
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.8
Truck Driver
2002-05-30
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
2.26
Bulldozer 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.
Kittrell 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 North Carolina, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.14 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 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
3.13
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
3.27
0.00
0.000
2018 *
3.53
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
24
2025
24
2024
24
2023
23
2022
24
2021
24
2020
24
2019
23
2018
23
2017
23
2016
20
2015
15
2014
14
2013
11
2012
8
2011
3
2010
5
2009
6
2008
13
2007
17
2006
18
2005
15
2004
10
2003
8
2002
6
2001
0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Kittrell Quarry sits in Vance County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.6% 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.
Vance County, North Carolina · Population 42,361
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$46,943
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
16,999
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
15,982
1
0
62.6
2025 Q4
17,145
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
18,187
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
15,100
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
15,457
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
14,547
1
0
68.7
2024 Q3
15,463
7
0
452.7
Show 91 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
15,622
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
16,496
2
0
121.2
2023 Q4
14,374
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
16,842
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
14,716
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
15,433
4
1
259.2
2022 Q4
16,729
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
16,940
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
16,787
10
4
595.7
2022 Q1
13,387
2
0
149.4
2021 Q4
15,655
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
15,754
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
16,586
2
0
120.6
2021 Q1
16,390
3
0
183.0
2020 Q4
17,188
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
16,132
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
15,944
3
0
188.2
2020 Q1
16,957
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
13,734
2
0
145.6
2019 Q3
16,584
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
16,262
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
14,508
0
0
0.0
2018 Q4
11,631
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
12,965
0
0
0.0
2018 Q2
17,533
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
14,540
4
1
275.1
2017 Q4
16,221
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
15,012
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
20,718
3
0
144.8
2017 Q1
19,539
0
0
0.0
2016 Q4
15,324
2
1
130.5
2016 Q3
13,148
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
13,183
0
0
0.0
2016 Q1
10,359
0
0
0.0
2015 Q4
8,854
0
0
0.0
2015 Q3
8,540
0
0
0.0
2015 Q2
9,039
1
1
110.6
2015 Q1
6,535
3
0
459.1
2014 Q4
7,524
0
0
0.0
2014 Q3
7,740
2
0
258.4
2014 Q2
7,329
0
0
0.0
2014 Q1
6,080
2
0
328.9
2013 Q4
8,269
0
0
0.0
2013 Q3
7,452
7
2
939.3
2013 Q2
5,771
0
0
0.0
2013 Q1
6,206
0
0
0.0
2012 Q4
7,125
20
2
2807.0
2012 Q3
8,356
0
0
0.0
2012 Q2
2,346
2
0
852.5
2012 Q1
2,094
0
0
0.0
2011 Q3
1,935
0
0
0.0
2011 Q2
1,957
0
0
0.0
2011 Q1
1,516
0
0
0.0
2010 Q4
1,349
0
0
0.0
2010 Q3
1,963
0
0
0.0
2010 Q2
3,334
1
0
299.9
2010 Q1
4,551
1
0
219.7
2009 Q4
5,286
0
0
0.0
2009 Q3
2,260
0
0
0.0
2009 Q2
3,575
0
0
0.0
2009 Q1
2,586
0
0
0.0
2008 Q4
7,224
0
0
0.0
2008 Q3
7,116
1
0
140.5
2008 Q2
8,049
9
0
1118.2
2008 Q1
9,566
2
1
209.1
2007 Q4
10,984
0
0
0.0
2007 Q3
12,060
2
0
165.8
2007 Q2
17,766
0
0
0.0
2007 Q1
14,068
0
0
0.0
2006 Q4
10,623
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
10,191
0
0
0.0
2006 Q2
12,059
9
0
746.3
2006 Q1
11,824
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
11,266
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
10,872
7
2
643.9
2005 Q2
8,914
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
7,012
6
2
855.7
2004 Q4
7,131
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
6,095
4
1
656.3
2004 Q2
5,259
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
4,722
5
1
1058.9
2003 Q4
2,435
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
4,804
0
0
0.0
2003 Q2
6,203
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
6,393
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
5,165
7
4
1355.3
2002 Q3
2,703
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
596
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
0
0
0
2001 Q3
0
0
0
2001 Q2
0
0
0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
20 on file
2022 · 1 incident
February 16, 2022NC · Metal/Non-Metalutility man, shift tech, service/dump truck operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Employee was changing a 60 inch conveyor idler when right hand was pinched between the idler and the frame resulting in a laceration requiring 6 stitches.
Employee was operating a 730 Caterpillar haul truck when ee felt pain in back.
May 3, 2017NC · Metal/Non-Metalbeltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor riderSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee was swinging a sledge hammer when his left hand small finger came in contact with a channel brace which resulted in the employee having to have three stitches and his nail removed.
March 15, 2006NC · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerMACHINERY
Employee was operating Komatsu PC 300 with a hydraulic hammer, a small stone came thru screen over windshield and shattered windshield, and piece of glass lodged in employee's index finger on his left hand.
March 1, 2006NC · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
The employee stated he was climbing down the steps off the John Deere haul truck. When his left foot touched the ground, his right boot caught on the bottom step causing him to fall and bump his right knee. The employee refused medical attention when he reported the incident at 16:45 P.M.
2005 · 2 incidents
May 13, 2005NC · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EE was dismounting a Volvo A-40D Haul Truck using the steps that are mounted on the cab section. As he was climbing down the stairs, one of his feet slipped on the last step (2' above ground). The slippage of his foot caused him to jump to the ground where he landed on his feet in an awkward position. He fractured his back in two places as a result.
April 2, 2005NC · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE was climbing a ladder to access the bed of a service vehicle to acquire tools. EE grabbed the top section of the ladder where it is secured to the service truck by a bolt on each side. EE'S middle finger on his right hand became pinched at the pivot point and was wounded. EE received 10 stitches on his middle finger.