Mining Incidents

Paulding Aggregates- Jaw # 311-JC01: 9 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Paudling, Paulding County, OH  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3304795

Paulding Aggregates- Jaw # 311-JC01 has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $35 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2024–2025
Latest incident
Mar 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2023
9
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,343
proposed penalties
$1,308
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $35 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2023
4
inspections on record
78
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: 78 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Paulding Aggregates- Jaw # 311-JC01 has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $35 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$35
outstanding
9 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-20.
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.
22.2%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
22.2%
reasonably likely or greater
0.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 33.3% low, 66.7% 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: 2025-11-20
4
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-11-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2025-11-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 Laborer, Bullgang
2024-08-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-08-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader 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. Meyer Material CO, LLC 2023 to 2024
  2. Gerken Materials Inc. 2024 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 8
2025 8
2024 5
2023 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Paulding Aggregates- Jaw # 311-JC01 sits in Paulding County, Ohio, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Paulding County, Ohio · Population 18,800
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$68,167
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 5,262 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 3,017 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 5,117 2 2 390.9
2025 Q3 6,218 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 5,386 2 0 371.3
2025 Q1 1,678 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,359 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,298 2 0 606.4
Show 5 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 2,371 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 78 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,714 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,266 2 0 882.6
2023 Q2 1,025 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2025 · 1 incident

March 27, 2025 OH · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Gerken Materials Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cutting a piece of belting for a skirt rubber with a razor knife and slipped and cut EE's left thumb requiring two stitches.

2024 · 2 incidents

November 2, 2024 OH · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS)
Gerken Materials Inc. · Contact with heat

Employee was standing in office during a pre shift meeting and passed out briefly and fell to the floor hitting their head on printer on the desk, employee started responding to Foreman fifteen to twenty seconds later. EMT'S were called and employee was taken to be checked out and released two hours later with Return to work paperwork and diagnosed with Dehydration.

August 27, 2024 OH · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Gerken Materials Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Operator shut down the FEL for the day. As the operator was stepping down from the last step of the ladder to the ground, EE rolled their right ankle and was advised to wear a walking boot for 2-3 weeks or till it felt better. EE wore it for four days and is wearing regular work boot now.