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Neilton Quarry: 147 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Neilton Dias · Surface
Controlled by Neilton Dias
Nicholson, Susquehanna County, PA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3610192

Neilton Quarry has $40K in proposed MSHA penalties and $17K outstanding across 2 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 2016
147
citations
71
significant & substantial
$40,012
proposed penalties
$23,427
paid to date
59% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $16,585 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
18
inspections on record
600
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: 600 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Neilton Quarry has $40K in proposed MSHA penalties and $17K outstanding across 2 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.
$40K
proposed penalties
$40K
current assessed
$23K
paid to date
$17K
outstanding
142 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $3K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-04-16.
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.
50.0%
significant & substantial
19.0%
high negligence or reckless
50.0%
reasonably likely or greater
70.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 16.9% low, 64.1% moderate, 19.0% 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.
5 citations taken to the federal commission · 3% of citations on record
  • Settled 3 · 60%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 2 · 40%
60%
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 5 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
17%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$3K proposed, $3K 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 2024-11-24.
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
PENN 2025-0045 Settlement Paez 2025 $3K → $3K
PENN 2019-0055 Withdrawal Miller 2019 $572 → $0
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: 2023-03-22, 3 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2023-03-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2023-03-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mechanic
2022-07-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2018-10-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.36 0.53 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2018-10-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.44 0.45 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2018-10-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2017-10-31 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.34 0.41 Stone Polisher/Cutter
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. Neilton Dias 2016 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 4
2024 4
2023 4
2022 4
2021 4
2020 3
2019 1
2018 3
2017 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Neilton Quarry sits in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 3.2% 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.
Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania · Population 38,349
3.2%
Mining share of county employment
$66,930
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 960 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,440 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,800 56 17 31111.1
2025 Q1 280 7 2 25000.0
2024 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 720 12 6 16666.7
Show 27 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1 720 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,880 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,250 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 880 3 1 3409.1
2022 Q4 795 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,400 6 4 2500.0
2022 Q2 2,420 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 250 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,680 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,400 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,100 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 260 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 720 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,920 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,440 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 300 7 6 23333.3
2019 Q3 920 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 224 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 134 3 1 22388.1
2018 Q2 1,530 1 0 653.6
2018 Q1 584 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 720 2 1 2777.8
2017 Q3 3,348 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,140 2 2 636.9
2017 Q1 2,304 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.