North Birmingham Quarry has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $208 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2007–2010
Latest incident
Apr 2010
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
40
citations
13
significant & substantial
$8,263
proposed penalties
$7,332
paid to date
89% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $931 gap.
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: 255 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
North Birmingham Quarry has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $208 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$208
outstanding
40 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $723 in penalties contested before the Commission, $0 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-10-16.
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.
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.
1citations taken to the federal commission · 3% of citations on record
Stood as issued
1 · 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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
100%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$723 proposed, $0 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 2007-03-06.
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.
North Birmingham Quarry recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2011.
Injury rate, 2011
ⓘ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
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.56 and the all-US-mining average was 3.08 cases per 100 workers.
In Alabama, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.26 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
2011 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2010 *
9.45
0.00
0.000
2009 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2008 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2007 *
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2013
2
2012
3
2011
9
2010
10
2009
12
2008
13
2007
9
2006
1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
North Birmingham Quarry sits in Jefferson County, Alabama, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Jefferson County, Alabama · Population 669,744
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$64,589
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
2013 Q1
54
0
0
0.0
2012 Q4
423
2
0
4728.1
2012 Q3
1,079
0
0
0.0
2012 Q2
1,395
0
0
0.0
2012 Q1
1,616
1
0
618.8
2011 Q4
1,814
0
0
0.0
2011 Q3
8,208
2
0
243.7
2011 Q2
7,832
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2011 Q1
6,736
2
1
296.9
2010 Q4
3,379
0
0
0.0
2010 Q3
5,874
1
0
170.2
2010 Q2
6,674
0
0
0.0
2010 Q1
5,236
2
1
382.0
2009 Q4
5,295
0
0
0.0
2009 Q3
5,907
2
0
338.6
2009 Q2
4,808
0
0
0.0
2009 Q1
6,327
0
0
0.0
2008 Q4
7,436
3
1
403.4
2008 Q3
7,131
0
0
0.0
2008 Q2
5,841
3
0
513.6
2008 Q1
8,502
0
0
0.0
2007 Q4
8,604
7
2
813.6
2007 Q3
8,064
0
0
0.0
2007 Q2
5,127
0
0
0.0
2007 Q1
777
1
1
1287.0
2006 Q4
650
7
4
10769.2
2006 Q3
216
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file
2010 · 1 incident
April 5, 2010AL · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
After cleaning out a rail car, employee went to close the latch. In attempting to secure the latch he pushed on it with his hand, the latch came loose and pinned his left ring finger. He received several lacerations which required 12 stitches.
Employee was doing repair work on a Motor Control Center and wrench slipped off connection and struck employee's safety glasses which broke cutting him above his left eye. The cut required stitches.
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