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Perry: 118 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Granite Construction Inc
Senatobia, Tate County, MS  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2200763

Perry has $29K in proposed MSHA penalties and $319 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
2008–2023
Latest incident
Feb 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
118
citations
38
significant & substantial
$28,939
proposed penalties
$28,620
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $319 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Memphis Stone & Gravel Company's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
54
inspections on record
819
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: 819 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘ A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2012-08-22.
On record since 2012.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Perry has $29K in proposed MSHA penalties and $319 outstanding across 2 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.
$29K
proposed penalties
$29K
current assessed
$29K
paid to date
$319
outstanding
102 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $6K in penalties contested before the Commission, $6K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-09-03.
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.
33.3%
significant & substantial
20.2%
high negligence or reckless
33.3%
reasonably likely or greater
63.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.0% low, 72.8% moderate, 20.2% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
2 citations taken to the federal commission · 2% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 50%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 50%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$6K proposed, $6K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2021-04-07.
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
SE 2021-0094 Settlement 2021 $6K → $6K
SE 2010-1005M Default Lesnick 2011 $100 → $100
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: 2024-03-06
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
34
samples
15
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg17
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz10
  • Arsenic fumes2
  • Beryllium fumes2
Show the individual readings (58)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-03-06 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.2 10 0.02 Washer Operator
2024-03-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.79 0.19 Washer Operator
2021-03-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2021-03-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Belt Cleaner
2021-03-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2016-10-26 Zinc oxide fumes 0 5 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Chromium, insoluble 0 1 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Cobalt fumes 0 100 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Copper fumes 0 100 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Manganese fumes 0.01 5 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Molybdenum fumes 0 10 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Nickel fumes 0 1 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Vanadium fumes 0 50 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Zinc oxide fumes 0 5 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Arsenic fumes 0 500 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Beryllium fumes 0 2 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Cadmium oxide fumes 0 100 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Chromium, insoluble 0 1 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Cobalt fumes 0 100 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Copper fumes 0 100 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Iron oxide fumes 0.17 10 0.02 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Lead fumes 0 150 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Magnesium oxide fumes 0 10 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Manganese fumes 0.02 5 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Molybdenum fumes 0 10 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Nickel fumes 0 1 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Vanadium fumes 0 50 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2016-10-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2016-10-26 Iron oxide fumes 0.09 10 0.01 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Lead fumes 0 150 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Magnesium oxide fumes 0 10 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Arsenic fumes 0 500 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Beryllium fumes 0 2 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-10-26 Cadmium oxide fumes 0 100 0.00 Welder, etc.
2016-09-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.59 0.25 Utility Man
2016-09-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.4 0.38 Screen/Scalper Operator
2016-09-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 0.74 0.16 Utility Man
2016-09-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2016-09-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.44 0.30 Screen/Scalper Operator
2014-11-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2014-11-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-11-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2014-11-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2014-11-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 2.29 0.11 Laborer, Bullgang
2013-10-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 1.51 0.14 Hydrating Plant Operator
2013-10-24 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.16 Utility Man
2013-10-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 1.3 0.13 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-10-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.39 0.38 Utility Man
2011-09-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2011-09-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.61 2.95 0.21 Tractor Operator
2011-09-14 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.17 Washer Operator
2011-09-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2008-01-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2008-01-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2006-08-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2006-08-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2006-08-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
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.

Perry 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
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 Mississippi, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 0.78 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 * 5.05 0.00 0.000
2022 * 5.65 0.00 0.000
2021 * 5.25 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 10.22 5.11 0.000
2018 * 11.16 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.
Ownership history
  1. Memphis Stone & Gravel Company 2005 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 26
2025 27
2024 31
2023 31
2022 28
2021 30
2020 26
2019 26
2018 26
2017 23
2016 20
2015 21
2014 23
2013 21
2012 15
2011 13
2010 12
2009 8
2008 7
2007 10
2006 7
2005 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Perry sits in Tate County, Mississippi, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Tate County, Mississippi · Population 28,135
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$63,995
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 8,319 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 7,251 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 8,218 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 10,903 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 9,519 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 8,236 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 8,359 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 9,090 1 1 110.0
Show 76 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 9,275 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 8,573 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 9,989 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 10,138 1 0 98.6
2023 Q2 10,269 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 9,199 2 0 217.4
2022 Q4 7,736 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 9,780 4 0 409.0
2022 Q2 9,731 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 8,137 10 4 1229.0
2021 Q4 7,869 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 10,562 4 2 378.7
2021 Q2 10,494 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 9,176 3 0 326.9
2020 Q4 9,117 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 9,658 2 0 207.1
2020 Q2 10,422 1 0 96.0
2020 Q1 8,029 1 0 124.5
2019 Q4 8,511 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 11,017 2 1 181.5
2019 Q2 10,604 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 8,999 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 9,433 2 0 212.0
2018 Q3 9,017 2 1 221.8
2018 Q2 9,690 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 7,708 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 7,362 3 1 407.5
2017 Q3 9,553 4 1 418.7
2017 Q2 9,163 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 8,730 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 7,889 1 1 126.8
2016 Q3 8,968 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 9,802 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 5,972 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 7,638 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 6,917 2 1 289.1
2015 Q2 9,809 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 6,066 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 6,658 2 1 300.4
2014 Q3 10,278 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 9,985 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 7,444 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 8,261 1 1 121.1
2013 Q3 9,826 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 7,789 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 8,925 1 1 112.0
2012 Q4 7,140 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 5,528 4 2 723.6
2012 Q2 2,446 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 137 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 4,056 1 0 246.5
2011 Q3 7,614 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 3,721 2 1 537.5
2011 Q1 1,809 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 4,289 1 1 233.2
2010 Q3 6,231 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 6,042 3 1 496.5
2010 Q1 1,209 1 0 827.1
2009 Q4 1,851 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 5,151 2 1 388.3
2009 Q2 4,893 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,055 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 745 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,283 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 7,504 3 1 399.8
2008 Q1 7,024 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 3,784 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 3,391 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 6,356 1 0 157.3
2007 Q1 6,332 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,592 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 5,370 2 0 372.4
2006 Q2 1,934 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 29 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 22 0 0 0.0

Preliminary fatality notice

Official record pending

MSHA has published a preliminary fatality notice for this mine. The investigated official record typically follows one to six months after the accident; this page will carry it once MSHA releases it.

Granite Construction Inc
Perry · Surface · Sand Common
Foreman Maintenance · age 51

On August 13, 2026, a miner died after falling from a hopper onto an overland belt conveyor and becoming engulfed by material from the hopper.

MSHA preliminary report →

Reportable incidents

10 on file

2023 · 1 incident

February 3, 2023 MS · Metal/Non-Metal dry screening plant operator, screen house operator POWERED HAULAGE
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Fall from machine

Climbing on the sandbox, above the conveyor cat walk, and standing on the conveyor. No LOTO procedures followed. Miscommunication and the conveyor was turned on while employees was climbing down. EE fell onto the catwalk below, about 2-3 feet.

2022 · 1 incident

July 27, 2022 MS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee had been doing maintenance on the shakers at Perry Wash Plant. EE was walking down the stairs and when EE got to the end EE stepped on a piece of gravel. This caused EE to lose balance and fall on the same level surface. EE was diagnosed with a right twisted ankle.

2021 · 1 incident

November 6, 2021 MS · Metal/Non-Metal groundman, yardman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Fall onto or against objects

Injured party was in line to sign up in for a huddle up meeting. The other party broke in line and mouthed off with profanities at the injured party. The injured party rushed towards the party who started this altercation and then shoved the injured party, who then fell backwards and landed on a truck trailer hitch/ball with EE's buttocks, thus the injury. T

2019 · 2 incidents

November 25, 2019 MS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Struck against stationary object

Employee was assisting another employee to remove a nut and bolt from a conveyor roller frame. The injured employee was using a wrench to hold the bolt as the other employee was turning the nut. The injured employees wrench slipped resulting in the ring finger of EE's left hand being struck against some angle iron or conveyor frame.

July 22, 2019 MS · Metal/Non-Metal dry screening plant operator, screen house operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was climbing into the classfier to clean a screen. They stepped onto a brace, their feet slipped, and they fell against another brace. Employee has a contusion of the left shoulder and thorax.

2018 · 2 incidents

June 19, 2018 MS · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman ELECTRICAL
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Flash burns (electric)

Employee was standing next to an electrical panel as another employee removed a ground cable using a wrench. The wrench suddenly slipped striking a positive connection which resulted in a electrical flash burning the supervisors that was standing next to the panels right forearm.

May 2, 2018 MS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was performing conveyor maintenance. Employee attempted to climb on conveyor and slipped and fell. EE's left wrist was impaled by bolt attached to the conveyor as EE attempted to grab the conveyor when EE was falling.

2016 · 1 incident

October 28, 2016 MS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was installing paddles on the log washer and felt back pain. EE previously reported that on 10/13/16 EE had felt similar pain when EE was washing the shaker platform while pulling on a 2 1/2 inch water hose. EE requested to seek medical treatment on 10/31/16.

2014 · 1 incident

March 19, 2014 MS · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was involved in moving a 55 gallon drum from a Bobcat onto a pallet. As he was standing the 55 gallon drum up his middle finger on his left hand was caught between that drum and another drum that was on the pallet.

2008 · 1 incident

June 11, 2008 MS · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Memphis Stone & Gravel Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee states he was setting up 100ft piggy back conveyor in pit. He was lifting cross ties and pulling SO cable.