Mining Incidents

OR-AL Quarries, Inc: 175 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

OR-AL Quarries, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Alice Jueneman
Hanover, Marshall County, KS  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1401608

OR-AL Quarries, Inc has $42K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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 2000
175
citations
39
significant & substantial
$42,228
proposed penalties
$40,996
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,232 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
64
inspections on record
691
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: 691 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

OR-AL Quarries, Inc has $42K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$42K
proposed penalties
$41K
current assessed
$41K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
173 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-08.
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.
22.3%
significant & substantial
8.6%
high negligence or reckless
22.3%
reasonably likely or greater
59.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.6% low, 90.9% moderate, 8.6% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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
CENT20020096M Settlement Zielinski 2002 $4K → $3K
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: 2025-05-15
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
11
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg6
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz2
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (11)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-05-15 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 6.02 10 0.60 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-05-15 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 1.79 10 0.18 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-08-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Shovel Operator
2023-08-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2017-09-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mechanic
2017-09-19 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.25 10 0.03 Mechanic
2012-06-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.36 1.36 0.26 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-06-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-06-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-08-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 1.11 0.30 Laborer, Bullgang
2004-08-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang

Area samples (mill and shop air)

Last sampled: 2025-05-15
2
samples
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Area sampled
2025-05-15 ANALYZED BULK DUST MASS 0 SF ORE PROCESSING
2025-05-15 QUARTZ (BULK DUST) 0 SF ORE PROCESSING
2025-05-15 ANALYZED BULK DUST MASS 0 SF ACTIVE MINING
2025-05-15 QUARTZ (BULK DUST) 0 SF ACTIVE MINING
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. Orval Jueneman Dozer Service Inc 1999 to 2020
  2. OR-AL Quarries, Inc. 2020 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 3
2024 3
2023 3
2022 4
2021 5
2020 5
2019 4
2018 5
2017 5
2016 5
2015 4
2014 4
2013 4
2012 4
2011 5
2010 5
2009 4
2008 4
2007 3
2006 4
2005 3
2004 3
2003 2
2002 2
2001 2
2000 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

OR-AL Quarries, Inc sits in Marshall County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Marshall County, Kansas · Population 10,001
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$70,828
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 1,487 2 0 1345.0
2026 Q1 1,407 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 1,398 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,330 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,261 3 0 2379.1
2025 Q1 1,204 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,625 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,494 0 0 0.0
Show 95 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,290 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,085 1 0 921.7
2023 Q4 1,219 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,189 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,381 2 0 1448.2
2023 Q1 1,472 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,370 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,651 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,385 1 0 722.0
2022 Q1 1,514 2 2 1321.0
2021 Q4 2,261 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,714 1 0 583.4
2021 Q2 1,493 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,468 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,155 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,388 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,683 2 0 1188.4
2020 Q1 1,663 1 0 601.3
2019 Q4 1,717 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,607 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,547 2 0 1292.8
2019 Q1 1,468 1 0 681.2
2018 Q4 1,423 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,936 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,087 5 1 2395.8
2018 Q1 1,895 1 0 527.7
2017 Q4 2,075 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,814 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,551 4 1 2579.0
2017 Q1 1,986 2 0 1007.0
2016 Q4 2,090 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,774 4 1 2254.8
2016 Q2 1,736 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 2,006 2 0 997.0
2015 Q4 1,502 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,499 8 3 5336.9
2015 Q2 1,294 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 2,211 4 2 1809.1
2014 Q4 1,890 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,325 7 5 5283.0
2014 Q2 1,299 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 2,512 9 5 3582.8
2013 Q4 2,234 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,992 2 1 1004.0
2013 Q2 1,434 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 2,031 2 1 984.7
2012 Q4 2,400 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,920 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,920 7 2 3645.8
2012 Q1 1,920 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 2,330 12 3 5150.2
2011 Q3 2,725 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,174 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1,996 3 2 1503.0
2010 Q4 2,843 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 2,237 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,983 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,837 6 0 3266.2
2009 Q4 2,100 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,781 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,495 1 1 668.9
2009 Q1 1,851 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,986 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,719 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,881 12 1 6379.6
2008 Q1 1,449 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,345 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,528 14 0 9162.3
2007 Q2 987 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,484 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,679 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,634 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,696 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 2,628 20 7 7610.4
2005 Q4 1,172 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,320 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,014 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,526 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,185 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,140 2 0 1754.4
2004 Q2 1,259 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 939 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 840 1 0 1190.5
2003 Q3 939 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 740 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 535 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 598 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 833 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 780 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 240 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 770 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,477 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.