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: 319 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Lexington Quarry has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
13 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $133 in penalties contested before the Commission, $133 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 · 8% of citations on record
Settled
1 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$133 proposed, $133 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2022-05-12.
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: 2024-06-04
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
9
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg6
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (9)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2024-06-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
2024-06-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Drill Operator, Rotary
2024-06-04
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.17
0.45
0.38
Cleanup Man
2024-06-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-06-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
2020-09-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2020-09-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2020-09-10
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.16
10
0.02
Laborer, Bullgang
2020-09-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
Sampler, Dust
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.
Lexington Quarry recorded 3.61 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.
3.61
total case rate
3.61
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above 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 South Carolina, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.42 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 *
3.61
3.61
0.000
2024 *
18.48
13.86
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
5.74
5.74
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
28
2025
26
2024
21
2023
17
2022
14
2021
11
2020
16
2019
7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Lexington Quarry sits in Lexington County, South Carolina, 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.
Lexington County, South Carolina · Population 300,370
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$75,014
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
15,846
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
15,861
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
14,362
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
13,442
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
14,225
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
13,413
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
11,863
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
11,448
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
10,963
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
9,005
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
9,757
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
10,348
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
9,742
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
11,190
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
8,897
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
8,188
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
8,381
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
7,904
1
0
126.5
2021 Q4
4,546
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
6,492
1
1
154.0
2021 Q2
6,375
0
0
0.0
2021 Q1
5,929
1
0
168.7
2020 Q4
6,358
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
8,586
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
9,878
0
0
0.0
2020 Q1
10,028
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
7,046
0
0
0.0
2019 Q3
4,777
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
1,530
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
535
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
8 on file
2026 · 1 incident
February 19, 2026SC · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Employee got EE's arm caught in a troughing roller on a conveyor.
2024 · 4 incidents
October 3, 2024SC · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Employee was welding in a transfer chute when EE overheated.
May 13, 2024SC · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSTEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Employee was walking down the last flight of stairs at the scalping tower when EE's heel caught a rock causing EE to roll EE's ankle.
2023 · 1 incident
September 6, 2023SC · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Employee was assisting with the installation of a new seven foot cone crusher. As the crusher was being lowered one of the bolts was pushed up about six inches and skewed to one side. The employee grabbed the top of the bolt to realign it with the bolt holes and as it lined up the hole it dropped on the employee's thumb causing laceration.
2020 · 1 incident
April 13, 2020SC · Metal/Non-Metalquality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistantMACHINERY