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Plant #17-Sullivan: 61 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Sullivan, Crawford County, MO  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2301863

Plant #17-Sullivan has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $680 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
11
Years on record
1983–2023
Latest incident
Jan 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
61
citations
12
significant & substantial
$9,416
proposed penalties
$6,614
paid to date
70% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,802 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Capital Quarries Co Inc's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
69
inspections on record
884
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: 884 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Plant #17-Sullivan has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $680 outstanding across 3 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.
$9K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$680
outstanding
61 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $3K in penalties contested before the Commission, $796 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-05-06.
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.
19.7%
significant & substantial
9.8%
high negligence or reckless
19.7%
reasonably likely or greater
70.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 23.0% low, 67.2% moderate, 9.8% 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.
5 citations taken to the federal commission · 8% of citations on record
  • Settled 5 · 100%
75%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 4 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
73%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$3K proposed, $796 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 2009-08-05.
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
CENT 2009-708M Settlement Rae 2011 $2K → $112
CENT 2009-709M Settlement Rae 2011 $584 → $584
CENT 2009-251M Settlement Lesnick 2010 $334 → $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: 2025-10-08
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
38
samples
15
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg21
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz13
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (38)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-10-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-10-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2025-10-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 Screen/Scalper Operator
2025-05-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-05-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Shovel Operator
2025-05-07 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 2.51 10 0.25 Utility Man
2025-05-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2020-07-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2020-07-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2017-03-21 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.21 10 0.02 Truck Driver
2017-03-21 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.41 10 0.04 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-03-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-03-21 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 10 0.01 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2017-03-21 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.12 10 0.01 Truck Driver
2012-06-12 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 10 0.02 Truck Driver
2012-06-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-06-12 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 10 0.02 Mechanic
2006-04-05 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.37 10 0.04 Cleanup Man
2006-04-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2006-04-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-05-25 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 10 0.01 Truck Driver
2005-05-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Sampler, Dust
2005-05-25 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.4 10 0.04 Truck Driver
2005-05-25 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 10 0.02 Truck Driver
2005-05-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2005-02-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-02-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mechanic
2005-02-16 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 10 0.02 Mechanic
2005-02-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.39 1.58 0.25 Mechanic
2005-02-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Scale Man
2003-11-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2003-11-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-11-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Scale Man
2003-11-04 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.16 Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2003-11-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-07-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 1.35 0.23 Laborer, Bullgang
2003-07-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-07-16 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.3 10 0.03 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.

Plant #17-Sullivan recorded 8.67 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2023.

Injury rate, 2023
ⓘ 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.
8.67
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.78 and the all-US-mining average was 2.10 cases per 100 workers.
In Missouri, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.20 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
2023 * 8.67 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2001 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2000 * 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.
Ownership history
  1. Capital Materials Company Inc 1981 to 1984
  2. Capital Quarries Co Inc 1984 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 11
2025 10
2024 8
2023 12
2022 12
2021 8
2020 10
2019 11
2018 9
2017 7
2016 7
2015 8
2014 5
2013 7
2012 7
2011 8
2010 7
2009 8
2008 11
2007 14
2006 15
2005 15
2004 15
2003 13
2002 15
2001 11
2000 13
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Plant #17-Sullivan sits in Crawford County, Missouri, where the Census mining category is 0.9% 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.
Crawford County, Missouri · Population 22,890
0.9%
Mining share of county employment
$56,345
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 4,834 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 5,149 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 5,370 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 4,408 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,457 1 0 224.4
2025 Q1 3,898 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,891 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 4,369 0 0 0.0
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 3,500 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,437 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 5,323 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 4,920 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 7,464 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 5,357 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 6,314 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 6,166 1 0 162.2
2022 Q2 6,439 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,224 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,927 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 4,068 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 4,183 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 3,863 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 4,538 1 0 220.4
2020 Q3 4,200 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 6,350 1 0 157.5
2020 Q1 4,249 1 0 235.3
2019 Q4 4,176 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 5,240 2 0 381.7
2019 Q2 6,038 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 8,442 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 5,050 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 5,380 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 6,172 1 0 162.0
2018 Q1 3,054 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 3,872 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 4,207 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,191 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,985 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,940 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,589 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 3,983 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 2,259 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2,726 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,655 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 3,498 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 3,041 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,182 1 0 458.3
2014 Q3 2,814 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,325 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 2,543 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,994 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,503 1 0 399.5
2013 Q2 2,606 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 2,996 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,847 1 0 351.2
2012 Q3 3,841 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 3,528 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,933 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 3,061 1 0 326.7
2011 Q3 4,478 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 4,143 1 0 241.4
2011 Q1 2,903 2 0 688.9
2010 Q4 3,941 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 4,301 2 1 465.0
2010 Q2 3,640 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 2,576 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 3,980 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 4,306 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 4,209 4 2 950.3
2009 Q1 3,391 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 3,635 3 1 825.3
2008 Q3 4,376 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 4,478 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 3,391 1 0 294.9
2007 Q4 4,217 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 4,761 1 1 210.0
2007 Q2 4,564 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 3,729 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,644 2 0 548.8
2006 Q3 4,193 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 4,760 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 3,949 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 3,828 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 4,644 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 4,655 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 4,353 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 4,864 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 4,240 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 4,668 2 0 428.4
2004 Q1 3,568 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 3,874 1 0 258.1
2003 Q3 4,517 2 0 442.8
2003 Q2 4,567 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 2,960 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 3,834 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 4,522 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 4,436 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 3,615 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 4,369 10 0 2288.9
2001 Q3 6,451 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 7,613 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 5,285 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 5,573 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 7,050 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 7,877 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 4,409 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

11 on file

2023 · 2 incidents

January 26, 2023 MO · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Capital Quarries Co Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was holding pin with a pipe wrench. While attempting to hit pin with a hammer, the employee missed and hit pinky finger causing fracture to end of finger and four stitches.

January 11, 2023 MO · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Capital Quarries Co Inc · Fall from machine

Customer after getting loaded with rock, pulled off to the side at the tarping area to unroll the tarp. The customer had problems with the tarp and climbed on the side of the truck to get the tarp unstuck and fell to ground.

2009 · 1 incident

July 29, 2009 MO · Metal/Non-Metal driller, highwall operator, highwall drill operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Capital Quarries Co Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was lifting drill steel to put into changer when his wrist popped. He had hurt his wrist the privious year while working at home. Employee went home that evening and came to work the next morning & said he experienced more pain. After a doctor's visit it was determined to be a sprain.

1999 · 1 incident

September 21, 1999 MO · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Capital Quarries Co Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

WHILE REPLACING IMPACT CHAINS, EMPLOYEE'S LEFT THUMB WAS PINCHED BETWEEN CHAINS AND CHAIN HOLDER, PINCHING END OF THUMB.

1996 · 3 incidents

October 15, 1996 MO · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Capital Quarries Co Inc · Struck against stationary object

EE WAS WALKING TO THE KOMATSU EXCAVATOR ALONG THE MUCK PILE, WHEN HE STEPPED ON SOME SHOT (LOOSE) ROCK AND PULLED HIS LEFT CALF MUSCLE IN HIS LEG

July 12, 1996 MO · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Capital Quarries Co Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE COMPLETED A HOLE FOR BLASTING AS HE PROCEEDED TO PULL THE DRILL STEEL FROM THE HOLE REMOVING A 12' LONG DRILL STEEL SECTION, HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL TO THE GROUND ON HIS RIGHT KNEE, TH UR CAUSING THE KNEE TO SWELL AND START HURTING.

May 8, 1996 MO · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Capital Quarries Co Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE STARTED TO CLIMB THE STEPS TO THE OPERTAORS DECK ON A CAT 769C HAUL TRUCK WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT CALF. (TORE MUSCLE IN RIGHT CALF).

1995 · 1 incident

January 19, 1995 MO · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Capital Quarries Co Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

HE WAS HELPING A FELLOW EMPLOYEE LIFT AN OLD ELECTRICAL BOX 3'X5' WEIGHT ABOUT 80#, WHEN HE FELT A CATCH IN HIS UPPER BACK. THE PAIN WAS IN HIS NECK AND RIGHT SHOULDER BLADE AREA.

1990 · 2 incidents

November 26, 1990 MO · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Capital Quarries Co Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

GOING TO OPER DOZER STEPPED ON DOZER PUSH ARM WITH R LEG HIS KNEE POPPED IT LOCKED UP WOULD NOT BEND

January 19, 1990 MO · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent MACHINERY
Capital Quarries Co Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN USING HAND GRINDER HAD FINISHED WITH IT & WAS READY TO SET IT DOWN WHILE SETTING IT DOWN THE HANDLE CAUGHT ON COVERALLS & GRINDING WHEEL CAME INTO CONTACT WITH KNEE

1983 · 1 incident

July 1, 1983 MO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Capital Materials Company Inc · Fall from machine

GETTING BOLT FROM HYDRAULIC PUMP HOUSING ON LOADER.WENT TO GET DOWN GOT FOOT CAUGHT IN LADDER,LOST BALANCE FELL BACKWARDS OFF LADDER ONTO GROUND ABOUT 3\.CUT LEFT ARM BELOW ELBBOW-REQUIRING 7 STITCHES TO CLOSE.