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Mission Quarry: 32 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by CRH PLC
Murphy, Clay County, NC  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3102039

Mission Quarry has $3K 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
2
Years on record
1989–1991
Latest incident
Mar 1991
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
32
citations
7
significant & substantial
$2,831
proposed penalties
$2,831
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Harrison Construction Co Div/ APAC-Atlantic Inc's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
24
inspections on record
392
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: 392 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mission Quarry has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
32 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-10-06.
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.
21.9%
significant & substantial
9.4%
high negligence or reckless
21.9%
reasonably likely or greater
50.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 9.4% low, 81.2% moderate, 9.4% 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: 2005-11-30, 20 years ago
22%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
12
samples
9
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz92 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
Show the individual readings (12)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2004-06-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.61 0.4 1.53 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-03-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.56 0.42 1.33 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-11-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.62 0.95 0.65 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-11-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.36 0.47 0.77 Cleanup Man
2005-11-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2005-03-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.48 0.67 0.72 Cleanup Man
2005-03-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.62 0.23 Truck Driver
2005-03-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.8 1.49 0.54 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-08-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-03-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-03-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.75 1.03 0.73 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-03-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 0.44 0.57 Cleanup Man
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.

Mission Quarry recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2007.

Injury rate, 2007
ⓘ 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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.30 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 cases per 100 workers.
In North Carolina, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.18 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.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2007 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2006 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2005 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2001 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2000 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
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. Rabco 1989 to 2002
  2. Western Materials, Inc. 2002 to 2008
  3. Harrison Construction Co Div/ APAC-Atlantic Inc 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2015 3
2014 6
2010 1
2009 25
2008 10
2007 22
2006 20
2005 16
2004 16
2003 13
2002 10
2001 10
2000 10
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Mission Quarry sits in Clay County, North Carolina, 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.
Clay County, North Carolina · Population 11,391
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$53,645
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
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q2 889 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 505 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 416 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,993 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2,442 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 52 0 0 0.0
Show 39 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2009 Q4 2,486 1 0 402.3
2009 Q3 1,839 2 1 1087.5
2009 Q2 2,330 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,156 1 0 463.8
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 4,258 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 6,925 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 7,904 2 0 253.0
2007 Q4 7,364 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 8,236 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 8,282 4 1 483.0
2007 Q1 9,069 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 8,162 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 9,996 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 8,960 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 8,659 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 9,685 3 0 309.8
2005 Q3 8,575 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 15,083 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 8,655 3 1 346.6
2004 Q4 8,997 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 9,688 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 9,128 3 2 328.7
2003 Q4 10,996 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 7,632 1 0 131.0
2003 Q2 5,900 5 1 847.5
2003 Q1 5,146 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 5,790 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 6,108 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 6,013 2 0 332.6
2002 Q1 5,967 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 4,644 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 5,845 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 5,788 2 1 345.5
2001 Q1 5,712 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 5,944 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 6,190 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 6,256 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 6,355 3 0 472.1
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1991 · 1 incident

March 25, 1991 NC · Metal/Non-Metal driller, highwall operator, highwall drill operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Rabco · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE PICKED UP A 40 LB STEEL PLATE FROM THE GROUND HURT BACK PICKING UP THIS PLATE.

1989 · 1 incident

October 9, 1989 NC · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Rabco · Fall from machine

EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN THE LADDER DISMOUNTING A RUBBER TIRED LOADER AND SLIPPED ON THE BOTTOM STEP HE STRAINED SOME MUSCLES AND LIGAMENT IN HIS LOWER BACK. WHEN EE SLIPPED HE HELD ON TO THE HAND RAIL ON LEFT SIDE OF LADDER AND TWISTED HIS BACK.