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: 661 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Owego Plant has $7K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
52 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-12.
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.
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: 2025-11-13
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
28
samples
16
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz17
Respirable dust, <.1mg11
Show the individual readings (28)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-11-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Washer Operator
2025-11-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2025-11-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2025-11-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
2020-10-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2020-10-08
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.16
Truck Driver
2017-05-03
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.3
0.69
0.43
Front-end Loader Operator
2017-05-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2017-05-03
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.27
1.96
0.14
Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2017-05-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
2016-07-13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.26
1.16
0.22
Cleanup Man
2016-07-13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.22
0.41
0.54
Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2016-07-13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.26
0.57
0.46
Front-end Loader Operator
2016-07-13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.17
0.83
0.20
Crusher Oper/Worker
2012-03-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.21
0.4
0.53
Front-end Loader Operator
2012-03-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
0.52
0.29
Front-end Loader Operator
2012-03-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.25
0.45
0.56
Truck Driver
2012-03-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.18
0.4
0.45
Truck Driver
2005-05-24
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.24
1.24
0.19
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-05-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-05-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2005-05-24
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.21
0.42
0.50
Cleanup Man
2005-05-24
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.67
2.5
0.27
Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-08-06
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.28
0.84
0.33
Truck Driver
2003-08-06
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2003-08-06
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.16
0.51
0.31
Laborer, Bullgang
2003-08-06
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-08-06
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.27
1.95
0.14
Truck Driver
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.
Owego Plant recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ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
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In New York, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.08 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
2025 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018 *
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
2026
9
2025
9
2024
8
2023
11
2022
10
2021
9
2020
9
2019
9
2018
10
2017
10
2016
8
2015
9
2014
8
2013
7
2012
9
2011
8
2010
9
2009
7
2008
10
2007
7
2006
9
2005
8
2004
10
2003
9
2002
11
2001
10
2000
13
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Owego Plant sits in Tioga County, New York, 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.
Tioga County, New York · Population 48,106
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$71,791
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
Switch gear shorted out and caught fire that was being fed by Cat 3512 genset. Fire lasted longer than 30 min so contacted 1-800-746-1553 Immediately reportable accidents, Called field office too. MSHA on site in 20 min. No injuries
1999 · 2 incidents
August 26, 1999NY · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
WELDING A LOADER BUCKET IN A TIGHT LOCATION. STICK WELDING, BENT WELD STICK TO GET IN TIGHT LOCATION. REACHED INTO START WELDING BEFORE SHIELD CAME DOWN AND TOUCHED OTHER STEEL AND ARCH BURNED HIS EYES.
March 17, 1998NY · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)