Mining Incidents

Liberty Hill Quarry: 21 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Liberty Hill Quarry, LLC · Surface
Controlled by Jacob A Getty
Salem, New London County, CT  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0600739

Liberty Hill Quarry has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $336 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

Watch this mine

Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at Liberty Hill Quarry.

Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
21
citations
3
significant & substantial
$2,446
proposed penalties
$2,110
paid to date
86% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $336 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
32
inspections on record
258
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: 258 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Liberty Hill Quarry has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $336 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$336
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-03-27.
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.
14.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
14.3%
reasonably likely or greater
42.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 23.8% low, 76.2% moderate, 0.0% 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: 2024-03-27
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-03-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Shovel Operator
2020-10-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Shovel Operator
2020-10-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Shovel Operator
2007-06-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.37 0.52 0.71 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
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. G's Ruffstuff 2007 to 2022
  2. Liberty Hill Quarry, LLC 2022 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 2
2012 2
2011 2
2010 2
2009 2
2008 2
2007 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Liberty Hill Quarry sits in Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut · Population 279,025
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$84,185
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 512 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 112 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 512 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 128 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 496 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 512 0 0 0.0
Show 67 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 160 1 0 6250.0
2023 Q4 504 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 512 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 472 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 240 1 0 4166.7
2022 Q4 464 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 472 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 472 1 0 2118.6
2022 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 484 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 482 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 464 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 218 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 462 2 0 4329.0
2020 Q3 466 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 412 2 1 4854.4
2020 Q1 240 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 464 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 388 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 210 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 414 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 440 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 378 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 224 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 472 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 434 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 474 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 220 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 404 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 428 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 462 1 0 2164.5
2016 Q1 420 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 4 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 412 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 380 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 384 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 444 1 0 2252.3
2014 Q2 420 1 0 2381.0
2014 Q1 320 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 242 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 312 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 152 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 212 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 188 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 182 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 164 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 122 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 182 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 178 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 170 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 126 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 142 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 128 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 116 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 110 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 148 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 160 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 128 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 102 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 160 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 170 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 160 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 20 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 0 0 0
2007 Q1 0 2 0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.