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Plant 5: 54 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Warren W Harshman
Florence, Marion County, KS  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1401694

Plant 5 has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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
2014–2018
Latest incident
Jun 2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
54
citations
15
significant & substantial
$7,962
proposed penalties
$7,962
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Harshman Construction LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
42
inspections on record
573
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: 573 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 5 has $8K 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
51 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-06.
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.
27.8%
significant & substantial
3.7%
high negligence or reckless
27.8%
reasonably likely or greater
53.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 14.8% low, 81.5% moderate, 3.7% 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: 2026-07-15
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
18
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg8
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz4
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (18)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-07-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2026-07-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.32 Front-end Loader Operator
2026-07-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-06-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.65 Laborer, Bullgang
2024-06-26 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 10 0.02 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-06-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-06-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-06-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2021-03-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-03-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-02-01 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.28 10 0.03 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-02-01 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 10 0.02 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-02-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2018-02-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.65 2.25 0.29 Cleanup Man
2014-04-09 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-04-09 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.12 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2009-03-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-03-17 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.12 10 0.01 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 5 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 Kansas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.88 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
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 8.45 8.45 0.000
2017 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2016 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2015 * 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. Harshman Construction LLC 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 8
2025 8
2024 7
2023 7
2022 7
2021 8
2020 8
2019 9
2018 9
2017 9
2016 11
2015 10
2014 8
2013 4
2012 6
2011 8
2010 8
2009 11
2008 9
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Plant 5 sits in Marion County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 0.8% 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.
Marion County, Kansas · Population 11,795
0.8%
Mining share of county employment
$63,438
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 5,123 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 5,033 4 0 794.8
2025 Q4 4,718 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 4,946 3 0 606.6
2025 Q2 4,875 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 6,082 1 0 164.4
2024 Q4 4,859 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 5,261 0 0 0.0
Show 64 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 4,863 2 0 411.3
2024 Q1 3,734 2 1 535.6
2023 Q4 4,636 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 4,306 1 0 232.2
2023 Q2 4,969 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 4,931 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 4,642 1 0 215.4
2022 Q3 5,036 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 4,902 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 4,548 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 4,685 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 4,874 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 5,053 2 0 395.8
2021 Q1 5,526 3 0 542.9
2020 Q4 4,918 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 4,980 1 0 200.8
2020 Q2 4,804 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 5,460 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 5,486 1 0 182.3
2019 Q3 5,764 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 6,681 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 6,043 3 2 496.4
2018 Q4 6,086 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 6,134 1 1 163.0
2018 Q2 5,701 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 5,746 2 1 348.1
2017 Q4 5,778 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 5,652 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 5,639 2 0 354.7
2017 Q1 5,340 2 1 374.5
2016 Q4 6,623 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 7,403 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 6,640 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 5,596 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 5,613 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 5,513 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 5,903 2 1 338.8
2015 Q1 4,000 2 0 500.0
2014 Q4 3,823 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 4,149 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 4,213 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 4,197 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 4,518 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 4,291 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 0 0 0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 4,748 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 4,437 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 4,634 1 1 215.8
2011 Q4 4,615 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 4,665 1 1 214.4
2011 Q2 3,354 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 4,807 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 4,292 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 5,060 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 4,786 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 4,938 2 2 405.0
2009 Q4 3,777 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 4,583 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 4,105 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 4,135 1 1 241.8
2008 Q4 3,293 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 3,277 4 0 1220.6
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2018 · 1 incident

June 26, 2018 KS · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Harshman Construction LLC · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

The crew was putting on a new belt on a conveyor. EE was pulling on the drive belt to help turn the head pulley to help the new belt go on. While pulling on the drive belt, ee caught the tip of ring finger between the belt and the pulley. The very tip of finger was broken.

2017 · 1 incident

September 8, 2017 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Harshman Construction LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Transmission pump being installed struck employee in the mouth chipping front teeth.

2014 · 1 incident

September 2, 2014 KS · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man MACHINERY
Harshman Construction LLC · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Drill steal slipped off of carousel on drill. Operator called for help. Employee went to help. They kept the boom vertical, EE was holding the steel in place. He signaled to the drill operator that he is ready, while the grips were closing around steel... he moved his hand into the clamp, catching his thumb between the clamp and the steel.