Mining Incidents

MSB Gravel Products: 52 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

MSB Gravel Products · Surface
Controlled by Steve St George
Ellington, Chautauqua County, NY  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3003435

MSB Gravel Products has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $302 outstanding across 1 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 2003
52
citations
11
significant & substantial
$10,045
proposed penalties
$9,519
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $526 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
32
inspections on record
409
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: 409 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2021-09-02.
On record since 2021.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

MSB Gravel Products has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $302 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$302
outstanding
50 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $357 in penalties contested before the Commission, $133 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-04.
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.
22.0%
significant & substantial
16.0%
high negligence or reckless
22.0%
reasonably likely or greater
50.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 16.0% low, 68.0% moderate, 16.0% 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
  • Settled 1 · 100%
0%
S&S designation survived the contest
Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
63%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$357 proposed, $133 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 2022-07-11.
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
YORK 2022-0063 Settlement Moran 2023 $357 → $133
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: 2025-08-19
25%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
10
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz41 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg5
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (10)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2009-05-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.83 0.87 2.10 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-08-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-04-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-04-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-11-28 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-11-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-07-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-05-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.57 0.35 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-08-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.27 0.56 0.48 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-08-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.52 0.89 0.58 Crusher Oper/Worker
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. MSB Gravel Products 2002 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 3
2023 3
2022 4
2021 3
2020 1
2019 1
2018 1
2017 1
2016 1
2015 1
2014 1
2013 1
2012 1
2011 2
2010 3
2009 3
2008 2
2007 2
2006 3
2005 1
2004 1
2003 1
2002 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

MSB Gravel Products sits in Chautauqua County, New York, 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.
Chautauqua County, New York · Population 126,329
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$56,507
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 738 1 0 1355.0
2026 Q1 2 1 0 500000.0
2025 Q4 831 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,552 7 0 4510.3
2025 Q2 815 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 686 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,062 0 0 0.0
Show 83 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 868 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 1,080 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,445 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,590 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 65 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 609 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,590 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 873 2 0 2291.0
2022 Q1 55 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,634 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,159 9 4 4168.6
2021 Q2 469 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 80 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 351 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 630 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 348 1 0 2873.6
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q3 640 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 349 3 2 8596.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 209 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 698 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 638 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 122 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 534 5 1 9363.3
2017 Q3 741 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 549 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 160 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 400 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 534 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 464 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 330 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 338 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 529 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 462 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 321 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 317 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 343 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 1 0
2013 Q4 400 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 873 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 820 3 1 3658.5
2013 Q1 144 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 632 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 850 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 807 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 296 2 0 6756.8
2011 Q4 607 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 907 3 0 3307.6
2011 Q2 677 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 522 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,015 3 0 2955.7
2010 Q2 1,681 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 31 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 571 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,150 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,120 4 1 3571.4
2008 Q4 505 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,410 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,232 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 80 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 879 4 1 4550.6
2007 Q3 1,613 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,290 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 73 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,449 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,097 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 511 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 725 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 477 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q3 596 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 637 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 130 2 0 15384.6
2003 Q3 801 1 1 1248.4
2003 Q2 476 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 376 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.