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: 91 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Metz Quarry has $642 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.
$642
proposed penalties
$642
current assessed
$642
paid to date
$0
outstanding
1 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-05.
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.
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: 2026-07-16
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2026-07-16
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.19
10
0.02
Front-end Loader Operator
2026-07-16
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.24
10
0.02
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
11
2025
12
2024
8
2023
4
2022
4
2021
4
2020
4
2019
2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Metz Quarry sits in Livingston County, Illinois, 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.
Livingston County, Illinois · Population 35,659
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$70,796
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
4,074
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
3,426
1
1
291.9
2025 Q4
3,743
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
4,439
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
4,632
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
3,999
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
3,828
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
3,904
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
3,147
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
2,604
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
2,525
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
1,871
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
1,411
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
1,323
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
2,780
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
1,821
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
1,611
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
1,129
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
878
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
471
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
929
0
0
0.0
2021 Q1
2,201
0
0
0.0
2020 Q4
1,083
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
1,480
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
1,294
0
0
0.0
2020 Q1
1,238
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
482
0
0
0.0
2019 Q3
213
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
248
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
3 on file
2024 · 1 incident
March 11, 2024IL · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Employee was tasked with moving a 100ft water hose located on a hill approximately 50ft over. Injured employee was located at top of the hill and assisting employee was at the bottom. Both employees grabbed their ends of the hose and tried to pull it over when the Injured Employee felt a sharp pain in lower back
Miner, along with the assistance of other miners, was pulling on the ground, an uncharged electric cord near the end of the shift. Later that night and next morning, EE felt discomfort which they attributed to this task. EE went to primary doctor that following day who ordered an ultrasound which the miner had on 8/12/2020.