Mining Incidents

Mckee Materials LLC: 30 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Mckee Materials LLC · Surface
Controlled by Jerry Mckee
Nelsonville, Athens County, OH  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3303466

Mckee Materials LLC has $7K 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
1
Years on record
2023
Latest incident
Jun 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2020
30
citations
7
significant & substantial
$7,360
proposed penalties
$7,360
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
16
inspections on record
259
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: 259 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mckee Materials LLC has $7K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
30 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-24.
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.
23.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
23.3%
reasonably likely or greater
30.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 36.7% low, 63.3% 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: 2025-11-25
100%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
12
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz41 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg8
Show the individual readings (12)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-03-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.28 1.19 1.08 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-11-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-11-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2024-09-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.4 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-09-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2024-03-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2024-03-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dredge/Barge Operator
2021-10-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 Utility Man
2021-10-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 Utility Man
2021-10-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2021-10-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-10-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dredge/Barge 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.
Ownership history
  1. Lake Hope Asphalt Inc 1950 to 2003
  2. East Clayton Asphalt 2003 to 2019
  3. Mckee Materials LLC 2019 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 7
2025 7
2024 7
2023 7
2022 9
2021 11
2020 6
2003 0
2001 1
2000 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Mckee Materials LLC sits in Athens County, Ohio, 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.
Athens County, Ohio · Population 61,573
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$53,837
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 2,907 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,735 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 3,076 1 0 325.1
2025 Q3 3,274 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,246 1 0 308.1
2025 Q1 2,162 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,720 2 1 735.3
2024 Q3 3,041 1 0 328.8
Show 24 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 2,990 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,142 2 0 933.7
2023 Q4 2,641 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,703 5 2 1849.8
2023 Q2 2,463 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,167 7 1 5998.3
2022 Q4 2,938 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 4,279 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 4,685 4 0 853.8
2022 Q1 329 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,724 5 3 1835.5
2021 Q3 3,488 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 4,191 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,776 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,290 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,224 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,339 2 0 855.1
2020 Q1 451 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2001 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,452 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,452 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 528 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2023 · 1 incident

June 6, 2023 OH · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Mckee Materials LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Miners were positioning the dredge to pull alongside the prepared embankment. Using an excavator to tow the dredge into place, the cable briefly stuck to the embankment and when it came dislodged, the miner was in the path of the cable and became injured. The miner was assessed on site and was taken to the local hospital. There, it was discovered that the cable had broken EE's