Mining Incidents

Ober Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

M.R. DIRT INC · Surface
Wysox, Bradford County, PA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3609796

Ober Quarry has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2011
Latest incident
Feb 2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
58
citations
16
significant & substantial
$10,463
proposed penalties
$10,463
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
28
inspections on record
465
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: 465 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Ober Quarry has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
58 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-11.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 721 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 593 2 0 3372.7
2025 Q2 773 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 109 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 607 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 895 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 765 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 993 1 0 1007.0
Show 57 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 1,444 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,745 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 725 4 2 5517.2
2022 Q4 2,007 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,145 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,000 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 932 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,279 4 0 3127.4
2021 Q3 1,173 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,382 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 650 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,047 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,305 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,644 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,078 2 0 962.5
2019 Q4 2,763 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,718 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,141 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,508 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,962 4 0 2038.7
2018 Q3 2,359 2 0 847.8
2018 Q2 2,672 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,100 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,602 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 672 1 0 1488.1
2017 Q2 777 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 603 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 618 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 787 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 684 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 730 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,468 1 0 681.2
2015 Q3 1,726 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,194 2 0 1675.0
2015 Q1 592 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,516 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,809 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,118 3 2 962.2
2014 Q1 1,965 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,892 2 0 1057.1
2013 Q3 1,852 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,676 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,838 1 0 544.1
2012 Q4 5,183 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 5,340 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 6,874 4 0 581.9
2012 Q1 8,090 5 2 618.0
2011 Q4 7,006 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 8,261 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 11,496 6 1 521.9
2011 Q1 10,859 4 2 368.4
2010 Q4 1,143 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 2,230 6 5 2690.6
2010 Q2 999 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 88 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 975 4 2 4102.6
2009 Q3 156 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2011 · 1 incident

February 15, 2011 PA · Metal/Non-Metal rock driller HANDLING OF MATERIALS
F.S. Lopke Contracting, Inc. · Over-exertion in lifting objects

When drilling, the driller needs to lift drill rods an place on drill mast to add length, when driller was doing this he felt what he thought was a muscle "tweek". This feeling did not improve, went to doctor and found out he had a hernia.

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