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: 343 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
LEE CENTER PIT has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
19 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $123 in penalties contested before the Commission, $123 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-09.
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.
1citations taken to the federal commission · 5% of citations on record
Stood as issued
1 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$123 proposed, $123 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2020-06-03.
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: 2021-10-13, 4 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
9
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg6
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (9)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2021-10-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2016-10-05
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2009-05-07
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.51
0.57
0.89
Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-05-07
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2009-05-07
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Bulldozer Operator
2005-07-21
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-07-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.19
0.48
0.40
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-07-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.22
0.28
0.79
Cleanup Man
2003-06-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
2
2025
1
2024
1
2023
2
2022
2
2021
2
2020
2
2019
2
2018
1
2017
1
2016
1
2015
1
2014
2
2013
1
2012
1
2011
1
2010
1
2009
2
2008
1
2007
2
2006
2
2005
1
2004
2
2003
2
2002
3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
LEE CENTER PIT sits in Oneida County, New York, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Oneida County, New York · Population 229,645
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$68,819
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
A customer entered pit with his pickup truck. I approached him with loader. As soon as loader was off, he climbed up on bottom step, talked to me a minute or so, then his right hand appeared to slip. He spun in a circle, fell under machine and hit his head on the edge of main frame.