Mining Incidents

Neshannock Sand & Gravel Inc: 65 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Blaine E Forbes
New Castle, Lawrence County, PA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3609683

Neshannock Sand & Gravel Inc has $23K in proposed MSHA penalties and $22K 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 2009
65
citations
22
significant & substantial
$22,828
proposed penalties
$417
paid to date
2% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $22,411 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
28
inspections on record
330
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: 330 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Neshannock Sand & Gravel Inc has $23K in proposed MSHA penalties and $22K 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.
$23K
proposed penalties
$23K
current assessed
$417
paid to date
$22K
outstanding
63 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $4K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-05-16.
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.
33.8%
significant & substantial
26.2%
high negligence or reckless
33.8%
reasonably likely or greater
53.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 20.0% low, 53.8% moderate, 26.2% 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.
16 citations taken to the federal commission · 25% of citations on record
  • Stood as issued 16 · 100%
100%
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 7 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$4K proposed, $4K 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 2010-08-03.
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 2010-696M Default Lesnick 2011 $2K → $2K
PENN 2010-695M Default Lesnick 2011 $2K → $2K
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: 2010-05-13, 16 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
3
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2010-05-13 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.25 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-05-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.78 0.24 Utility Man
2010-05-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 1.4 0.15 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. Neshannock Sand & Gravel Inc 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 4
2024 5
2023 4
2022 4
2021 3
2020 5
2019 10
2018 7
2017 5
2016 5
2015 6
2014 5
2013 4
2012 4
2011 4
2010 5
2009 5
2008 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Neshannock Sand & Gravel Inc sits in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Lawrence County, Pennsylvania · Population 85,423
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$60,779
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 256 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 18 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 114 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 416 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 517 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 393 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 184 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 559 0 0 0.0
Show 62 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 284 1 0 3521.1
2024 Q1 393 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,419 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,669 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,083 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 549 1 0 1821.5
2022 Q4 582 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,253 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 886 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 233 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 534 8 2 14981.3
2021 Q3 692 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 615 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 125 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,115 1 0 896.9
2020 Q3 1,969 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 604 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 23 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 4,091 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,455 1 0 407.3
2019 Q1 946 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 2,167 1 1 461.5
2018 Q3 2,380 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 844 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 177 2 0 11299.4
2017 Q4 1,310 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,603 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,334 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 560 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,472 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,107 10 5 4746.1
2016 Q2 1,320 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 736 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2,561 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,957 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,322 1 0 756.4
2015 Q1 271 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,747 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,500 2 0 800.0
2014 Q2 1,545 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 101 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,719 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,098 2 0 953.3
2013 Q2 940 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 276 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,661 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,124 4 2 1883.2
2012 Q2 1,085 3 1 2765.0
2012 Q1 68 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,687 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,711 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 203 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 255 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,849 1 1 540.8
2010 Q3 2,709 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,450 16 7 11034.5
2010 Q1 1,375 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 2,923 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 3,234 3 0 927.6
2009 Q2 1,950 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1,305 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 2,489 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.