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Ohio Stone of Lynchburg, Inc.: 16 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Lynchburg, Highland County, OH  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3304629

Ohio Stone of Lynchburg, Inc. has $2K 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
5
Years on record
2010–2021
Latest incident
Jun 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
16
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,764
proposed penalties
$1,764
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Ohio Stone of Lynchburg Inc's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
28
inspections on record
298
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: 298 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Ohio Stone of Lynchburg, Inc. has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
16 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-09-09.
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.
12.5%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
12.5%
reasonably likely or greater
25.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 18.8% low, 81.2% moderate, 0.0% 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: 2025-11-04
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
10
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg5
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (10)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-11-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2025-11-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 Bulldozer Operator
2025-11-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2025-11-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2017-10-03 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.12 10 0.01 Truck Driver
2017-10-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.79 0.9 0.88 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2017-10-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2015-07-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 0.98 0.27 Cutting Mach Helper
2015-07-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2015-07-07 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.28 10 0.03 Cutting Mach 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. Ohio Stone of Lynchburg Inc 2009 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 7
2025 6
2024 6
2023 8
2022 6
2021 7
2020 8
2019 5
2018 4
2017 5
2016 4
2015 4
2014 4
2013 5
2012 4
2011 4
2010 4
2009 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Ohio Stone of Lynchburg, Inc. sits in Highland County, Ohio, 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.
Highland County, Ohio · Population 43,403
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$62,008
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 3,650 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 2,009 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 3,563 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,964 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,917 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,871 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,538 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,169 3 0 946.7
Show 61 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 3,116 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,251 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 3,112 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,349 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 4,015 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,683 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3,280 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,886 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,223 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,646 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,282 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,478 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,763 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 4,370 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 4,210 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,578 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,085 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,167 1 0 461.5
2019 Q4 2,357 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,900 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,423 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,444 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,422 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,528 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,937 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,830 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 2,329 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,429 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,861 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,934 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,729 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,715 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,456 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,560 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2,168 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,880 2 0 694.4
2015 Q2 2,885 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 880 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,759 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 3,002 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2,851 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 776 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,668 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,654 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 3,124 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,360 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,837 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,357 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,928 3 2 1024.6
2012 Q1 1,416 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 830 1 0 1204.8
2011 Q3 1,659 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,593 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1,701 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,752 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 2,026 2 0 987.2
2010 Q2 1,541 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 603 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,040 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,560 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,440 2 0 1388.9
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2021 · 1 incident

June 4, 2021 OH · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Ohio Stone of Lynchburg Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

While hand palletizing Flat rock / landscape stone EE felt like EE pulled a muscle in EE's left groin area. EE continued to work the rest of that day. That was on a Friday. Monday EE came back to work and worked a 1/2 day and alerted us to the accident EE had on Friday. I sent EE to the ER to get checked out for a possible hernia

2017 · 2 incidents

April 21, 2017 OH · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec MACHINERY
Ohio Stone of Lynchburg Inc · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

While running the Stone splitter to make Dimensional stone. Employee laid right hand on the power feed conveyor/roller table that you control with a handle. Employee then engaged control that makes conveyor/roller table move forward and table pulled EE's hand in between 2 rollers and wedged EE's hand in between the 2 rollers temporarily and bruised hand severely.

February 27, 2017 OH · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Ohio Stone of Lynchburg Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee went to step / dismount from Ford Dump Truck from drivers side while raining and slipped on the side of the step and twisted right ankle causing a sprain in that ankle. It was raining hard that day causing step area to be slick due to it being metal and wet.

2013 · 1 incident

August 13, 2013 OH · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man MACHINERY
Ohio Stone of Lynchburg Inc · Struck by falling object

Said employee was running our excavator / trac hoe pulling up flat rock slabs 9" in thickness and rock slipped out of the bucket allowing rock to break causing a small piece of stone (approximately 3/4" diameter) to fly up and hit employee on the right side of his head in between his eye and ear near his temple causing nausea and dizziness..

2010 · 1 incident

April 6, 2010 OH · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Ohio Stone of Lynchburg Inc · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

While palletizing flat rock (landscape stone) injured person was swinging a maul & twisted his lower back causing a minor strain on lower back muscle.