Mining Incidents

McQuiston Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Heidelberg Materials AG
Bessemer, Lawrence County, PA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3610273

McQuiston Mine has $4K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
30
citations
1
significant & substantial
$4,069
proposed penalties
$4,069
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
13
inspections on record
169
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: 169 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

McQuiston Mine has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
30 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-21.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 1,625 1 0 615.4
2025 Q3 1,920 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,300 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,203 2 0 1662.5
2024 Q4 1,644 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,828 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,800 3 0 1666.7
2024 Q1 1,812 0 0 0.0
Show 18 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,777 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,848 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,807 1 0 553.4
2023 Q1 1,810 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,834 4 1 2181.0
2022 Q3 1,848 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,817 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,782 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 909 1 0 1100.1
2021 Q3 1,588 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 611 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,106 6 0 5425.0
2020 Q4 1,164 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,121 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,024 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,024 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 320 12 0 37500.0
2019 Q3 320 0 0 0.0

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.

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A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.