Mining Incidents

Mt Olive Quarry: 38 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

United Stone, LLC · Surface
Controlled by Margarito Lujan
Whitwell, Marion County, TN  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4003347

Mt Olive Quarry has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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 2009
38
citations
13
significant & substantial
$6,020
proposed penalties
$4,414
paid to date
73% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,606 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
37
inspections on record
319
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: 319 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: 2025-01-15.
On record since 2025.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Mt Olive Quarry has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
29 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-26.
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.
35.1%
significant & substantial
13.5%
high negligence or reckless
35.1%
reasonably likely or greater
32.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.4% low, 81.1% moderate, 13.5% 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: 2025-01-15
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
9
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg5
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
Show the individual readings (9)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-01-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Forklift Operator
2025-01-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.35 0.40 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2025-01-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.36 1.33 0.27 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2024-06-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-06-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.53 0.57 0.93 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2024-06-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 0.47 0.47 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2009-09-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2009-09-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2009-09-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Forklift 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. D & L Stone LLC 2009 to 2018
  2. United Stone, LLC 2018 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 7
2023 6
2017 2
2016 4
2015 4
2014 4
2013 4
2012 5
2011 6
2010 6
2009 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Mt Olive Quarry sits in Marion County, Tennessee, 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.
Marion County, Tennessee · Population 29,010
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$58,103
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 0 5 1
2026 Q1 134 3 0 22388.1
2025 Q4 416 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 1,961 4 3 2039.8
2024 Q4 2,270 2 0 881.1
2024 Q3 2,320 2 1 862.1
Show 39 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 3,059 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,862 1 0 349.4
2023 Q4 2,773 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,300 2 1 606.1
2023 Q2 1,899 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 841 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 360 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,680 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,920 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,152 2 0 1736.1
2015 Q4 1,920 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,160 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,340 4 4 1709.4
2015 Q1 2,430 3 0 1234.6
2014 Q4 2,122 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,925 1 1 341.9
2014 Q2 2,340 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 512 3 0 5859.4
2013 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,520 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 2,340 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,825 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,864 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,160 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 3,342 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,832 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 2,004 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 3,548 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 3,351 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 2,626 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 2,247 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 3,709 1 0 269.6
2010 Q2 3,263 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 2,059 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 2,816 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 3,856 2 1 518.7
2009 Q2 3,797 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.