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PLANT 5: 208 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Scotia, Schenectady County, NY  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3000964

PLANT 5 has $47K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
11
Years on record
1984–2023
Latest incident
Jun 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
208
citations
58
significant & substantial
$46,669
proposed penalties
$46,669
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See CRANESVILLE AGGREGATE COMPANIES INC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
48
inspections on record
796
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: 796 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: 2010-12-08.
On record since 2010.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

PLANT 5 has $47K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$47K
proposed penalties
$47K
current assessed
$47K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
205 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $755 in penalties contested before the Commission, $755 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-09-03.
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.
28.3%
significant & substantial
8.3%
high negligence or reckless
28.8%
reasonably likely or greater
61.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 17.6% low, 74.1% moderate, 8.3% 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.
3 citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
  • Settled 3 · 100%
100%
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 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$755 proposed, $755 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 2024-11-17.
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
YORK 2025-0029 Settlement Paez 2025 $421 → $421
YORK20020052M Settlement 2002 $334 → $334
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: 2025-09-03
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
14
samples
9
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz9
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (14)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-09-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.29 0.7 0.41 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-09-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-09-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-04-15 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.32 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-04-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.58 0.74 0.78 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-04-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.3 0.47 0.64 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-04-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2012-04-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.7 0.24 Utility Man
2008-04-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.29 0.65 0.45 Front-end Loader Operator
2008-04-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.62 0.31 Front-end Loader Operator
2008-04-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.75 1.26 0.60 Laborer, Bullgang
2008-04-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.63 0.78 0.81 Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-08-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.52 0.40 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-08-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
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 2013.

Injury rate, 2013
ⓘ 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 2.46 and the all-US-mining average was 2.99 cases per 100 workers.
In New York, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.36 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
2013 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2012 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2010 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2009 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2006 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2005 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 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. Cushing Stone Company Inc 1950 to 1984
  2. Cranesville Aggregate Companies Inc 1984 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 8
2025 7
2024 5
2023 6
2022 4
2021 4
2020 6
2019 6
2018 7
2017 9
2016 9
2015 7
2014 7
2013 12
2012 12
2011 11
2010 14
2009 10
2008 9
2007 8
2006 11
2005 12
2004 13
2003 11
2002 13
2001 11
2000 10
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

PLANT 5 sits in Schenectady County, New York, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Schenectady County, New York · Population 159,603
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$76,989
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 4,120 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 3,032 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 2,472 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,962 5 2 1688.0
2025 Q2 1,444 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,810 1 0 552.5
2024 Q4 2,263 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,955 0 0 0.0
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 2,565 1 1 389.9
2024 Q1 2,132 2 0 938.1
2023 Q4 2,517 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,299 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,782 2 0 718.9
2023 Q1 2,571 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,216 1 0 451.3
2022 Q3 2,616 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,961 10 1 5099.4
2022 Q1 1,914 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,616 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,352 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,677 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,004 5 0 2495.0
2020 Q4 2,838 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,179 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,444 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,422 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,835 12 4 4232.8
2019 Q3 3,411 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 3,559 4 0 1123.9
2019 Q1 2,677 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 3,999 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,507 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 3,999 3 0 750.2
2018 Q1 2,546 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 4,102 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 4,637 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 4,179 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 3,060 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 3,737 6 1 1605.6
2016 Q3 4,238 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 4,093 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 2,742 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 3,614 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,994 6 0 2004.0
2015 Q2 2,942 4 0 1359.6
2015 Q1 2,488 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 3,381 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 3,573 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,893 14 5 3596.2
2014 Q1 3,213 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 3,300 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 5,581 7 0 1254.3
2013 Q2 7,187 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 4,939 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 6,205 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 5,812 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 5,702 9 2 1578.4
2012 Q1 4,082 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 5,675 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 6,043 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 4,865 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 2,296 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 6,248 20 6 3201.0
2010 Q3 6,605 8 4 1211.2
2010 Q2 6,855 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 5,223 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 7,305 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 5,017 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 4,542 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 3,400 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 4,220 11 2 2606.6
2008 Q3 5,281 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 5,680 10 1 1760.6
2008 Q1 4,582 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 4,724 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 5,609 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,550 6 0 1318.7
2007 Q1 4,016 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 5,422 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 7,326 6 2 819.0
2006 Q2 6,940 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 4,534 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 6,330 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 7,342 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 7,292 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 4,447 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 5,210 3 0 575.8
2004 Q3 7,668 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 7,226 9 2 1245.5
2004 Q1 4,847 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 4,065 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 5,988 2 0 334.0
2003 Q2 6,495 12 6 1847.6
2003 Q1 4,453 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 5,830 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 7,132 3 3 420.6
2002 Q2 7,065 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 6,800 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 5,767 23 16 3988.2
2001 Q3 6,674 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 7,161 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 5,399 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 6,164 3 0 486.7
2000 Q3 6,433 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 6,388 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 5,024 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

11 on file

2023 · 1 incident

June 30, 2023 NY · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator OTHER
Cranesville Aggregate Companies Inc · Unclassified, insufficient data

Worker was found unconscious in the restroom by a coworker and taken by ambulance to Medical Center. Worker has no memory of what led to the incident. They suffered an injury to their head and arm when they fell.

2018 · 1 incident

April 9, 2018 NY · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) MACHINERY
Cranesville Aggregate Companies Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Blocking material slipped out from under track hoe bucket, allowing bucket to roll forward and pinched heel on right foot between bucket and garage floor.

2016 · 1 incident

December 22, 2016 NY · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cranesville Aggregate Companies Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee exiting vehicle when foot slipped in snow and fell to ground, injuring left shoulder.

1998 · 2 incidents

June 11, 1998 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cranesville Aggregate Companies Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

WORKING ON THE WATER TRUCK SLIPPED 7 FELL & HURT LEG & KNEE (LEFT SIDE).

April 22, 1998 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Cranesville Aggregate Companies Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WORKING ON TOP OF CRUSHER CATWALKK WHEN A STONE FROM THE BELT ROLLED OFF AND HIT HIS RIGHT WRIST

1997 · 2 incidents

September 25, 1997 NY · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cranesville Aggregate Companies Inc · Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE WAS EMPTYING THE 1A BIN AT THE PLANT AND HE WAS COMING UP THE STAIRS FROM HIS TRUCK UP TO THE PLANT HE TRIPPED AND FELL DOWN.

July 31, 1997 NY · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cranesville Aggregate Companies Inc · Struck against stationary object

SLIPPED OFF STEP LADDER OF LOADER WHILE EXITING LOADER HITTING RIGHT KNEE ON STEP.

1996 · 1 incident

May 15, 1996 NY · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cranesville Aggregate Companies Inc · Struck against stationary object

EMP WAS ENTERING THE BACK OF SCREEN TO CHECK FORHOLES AND HE SLIPPED OFF OF THE BOARD AND HIT HIS HEAD.

1991 · 1 incident

September 30, 1991 NY · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cranesville Aggregate Companies Inc · Fall onto or against objects

INJURED WAS STEPPING ONT HE 2 & 3 ROUND BOX AND SLIPPED ON THE FROST THAT WAS ON THE STEEL. HE THEN FELL DOWN AND HIT HIS RIGHT CLAVICLE ON A VALVE.

1987 · 1 incident

October 21, 1987 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cranesville Aggregate Companies Inc · Fall from ladders

I NAME CLASSIFI9R OVERFLOWED ONTO TO DECKS MAKING SLIPPERY WHEN CLIMBING UP CLASSIFIER.

1984 · 1 incident

September 25, 1984 NY · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cranesville Aggregate Companies Inc · Fall from machine

I.NAME WAS CLIMBING UP THE LADDER TO GET INTO THE LOADER AND HIS KNEE GAVE OUT. HE COULDNOT PUT PRESSURE ON HIS LEG. HE CAN BEND IT BACK AND FORTH BUT NOT SIDE TO SIDE.