Mining Incidents

Lafayette Plant Oldcastle Stone Products: 5 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by CRH PLC
Layfette, Sussex County, NJ  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2801011

Lafayette Plant Oldcastle Stone Products has $275 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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
2003
Latest incident
Jul 2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
5
citations
0
significant & substantial
$275
proposed penalties
$275
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
2
inspections on record
28
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: 28 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Lafayette Plant Oldcastle Stone Products has $275 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$275
proposed penalties
$275
current assessed
$275
paid to date
$0
outstanding
5 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-03-28.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
80.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

Lafayette Plant Oldcastle Stone Products recorded 6.33 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2003.

Injury rate, 2003
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.
6.33
total case rate
3.16
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.43 cases per 100 workers.
In New Jersey, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.40 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.
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. Oldcastle Stone Products 2002 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2003 33
2002 40
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Lafayette Plant Oldcastle Stone Products sits in Sussex County, New Jersey, 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.
Sussex County, New Jersey · Population 145,117
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$114,316
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
2003 Q4 3,010 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 9,518 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 26,198 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 24,513 5 0 204.0
2002 Q4 8,975 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2003 · 2 incidents

July 7, 2003 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Oldcastle Stone Products · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE LOADING BAGS ONTO PALLET, TWISTED BACK.

April 30, 2003 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Oldcastle Stone Products · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING 50 LB BAGS OF STONE ONTO PALLETS.