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Macon County Quarry: 61 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Vulcan Materials Company
Decatur, Macon County, IL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1103028

Macon County Quarry has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2000–2023
Latest incident
Feb 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
61
citations
2
significant & substantial
$6,698
proposed penalties
$6,698
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
51
inspections on record
736
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: 736 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Macon County Quarry has $7K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
61 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $100 in penalties contested before the Commission, $0 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-11-21.
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.
3.3%
significant & substantial
3.3%
high negligence or reckless
3.3%
reasonably likely or greater
29.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 1.6% none, 19.7% low, 75.4% moderate, 3.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
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.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 2% of citations on record
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 100%
100%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$100 proposed, $0 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 2011-12-12.
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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
LAKE 2012-215M Withdrawal Lesnick 2012 $100 → $0
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2021-09-27, 4 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
10
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg6
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
  • Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (10)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2021-09-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-04-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-04-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2019-04-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2013-09-25 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 2.67 Mechanic
2013-09-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dredge/Barge Operator
2013-09-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-05-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.45 2.4 0.19 Front-end Loader Operator
2001-05-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 1.91 0.12 Front-end Loader Operator
2001-05-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.92 0.17 Front-end Loader 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.

Macon County Quarry recorded 9.66 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2000.

Injury rate, 2000
ⓘ 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.
9.66
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.77 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
In Illinois, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.14 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.
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. Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC 1998 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2023 5
2022 6
2021 5
2020 6
2019 4
2018 4
2017 4
2016 3
2015 3
2014 3
2013 4
2012 4
2011 5
2010 4
2009 4
2008 5
2007 5
2006 6
2005 7
2004 6
2003 7
2002 5
2001 7
2000 10
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Macon County Quarry sits in Macon County, Illinois, 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.
Macon County, Illinois · Population 102,591
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$62,449
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
2023 Q4 1,944 1 0 514.4
2023 Q3 2,502 1 0 399.7
2023 Q2 2,582 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,083 2 0 960.2
2022 Q4 2,438 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,885 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,200 2 0 625.0
2022 Q1 2,449 0 0 0.0
Show 88 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q4 3,014 1 0 331.8
2021 Q3 2,120 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,483 4 0 1611.0
2021 Q1 2,210 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,956 2 0 676.6
2020 Q3 3,511 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,498 1 0 285.9
2020 Q1 3,144 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,230 5 2 2242.2
2019 Q3 2,304 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,094 2 0 955.1
2019 Q1 1,617 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,385 1 0 722.0
2018 Q3 2,133 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,158 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,667 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,546 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,702 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,068 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,617 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,885 1 0 530.5
2016 Q3 2,074 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,053 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,452 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,966 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,795 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,283 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,610 1 0 621.1
2014 Q4 1,718 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,117 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2,183 1 0 458.1
2014 Q1 2,138 3 0 1403.2
2013 Q4 1,514 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,176 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,883 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,356 1 0 737.5
2012 Q4 1,735 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,293 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,359 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,861 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 2,725 1 0 367.0
2011 Q3 3,097 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,288 2 0 874.1
2011 Q1 2,342 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 2,279 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 2,389 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 2,549 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,629 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 2,379 1 0 420.3
2009 Q3 2,511 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 2,549 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1,637 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 2,207 1 0 453.1
2008 Q3 3,102 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 2,385 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,417 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 2,038 1 0 490.7
2007 Q3 2,604 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 2,672 2 0 748.5
2007 Q1 2,570 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,333 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 3,998 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 4,168 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 3,045 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 2,946 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 4,139 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 4,178 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 3,311 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 4,055 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 4,708 1 0 212.4
2004 Q2 5,201 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 3,566 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 4,102 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 4,828 1 0 207.1
2003 Q2 4,562 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 3,521 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 2,869 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 3,857 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 4,897 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 2,932 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 3,135 5 0 1594.9
2001 Q3 4,691 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 5,151 2 0 388.3
2001 Q1 2,980 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 4,238 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 6,783 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 5,992 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 3,682 1 0 271.6
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2023 · 1 incident

February 3, 2023 IL · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales OTHER
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was standing in the doorway of the equipment room talking to a co-worker and EE turned to walk away and when EE took a step, EE heard a pop and felt a burning pain in EE's right foot.

2005 · 1 incident

October 18, 2005 IL · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE was adjusting packing on booster pump when the wrench slipped and pinched his finger between the wrench and pump base.

2002 · 2 incidents

May 13, 2002 IL · Metal/Non-Metal INUNDATION
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

MANAGEMENT ARRIVED AT THE MINE SITE AND DISCOVERED THAT THE SANGAMON RIVER HAD OVERFLOWED INTO THE LAKE, RAISING THE LEVEL SUFFICIENTLY TO STOPPRODUCTION WITH THE DREDGE.

2000 · 1 incident

June 21, 2000 IL · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE ALONG WITH ANOTHER EE, WAS MOVING A CUTTING LIP INTO POSITION TO ATTACH TO AN ENDLOADER BUCKET. THEY EACH HAD AHOLD OF ONE END OF THE LIP. THE OTHER EE LET GO OF HIS END WITHOUT GIVING ANY WARNING AND INJURED EE'S RIGHT INDEX FINGER WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE LIP AND THE SHOP FLOOR.