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Pocahontas Quarry: 196 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Pochontas, Randolph County, AR  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0301818

Pocahontas Quarry has $52K in proposed MSHA penalties and $21K outstanding across 10 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
11
Years on record
2013–2023
Latest incident
Sep 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
196
citations
56
significant & substantial
$52,130
proposed penalties
$14,643
paid to date
28% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $37,488 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Capital Quarries Company, Inc.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
62
inspections on record
1,034
inspection hours
19.0
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.
196 citations across 1,034 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Pocahontas Quarry has $52K in proposed MSHA penalties and $21K outstanding across 10 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.
$52K
proposed penalties
$36K
current assessed
$15K
paid to date
$21K
outstanding
193 assessments are final orders; 10 contested dockets.
Of $26K in penalties contested before the Commission, $8K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-16.
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.
28.7%
significant & substantial
10.8%
high negligence or reckless
25.6%
reasonably likely or greater
52.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.5% none, 6.7% low, 82.1% moderate, 10.8% 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.
52 citations taken to the federal commission · 27% of citations on record
  • Settled 40 · 77%
  • Stood as issued 8 · 15%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 4 · 8%
80%
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 30 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
70%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$25K proposed, $8K 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 2022-06-21.
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 2010-1296M Settlement Gill 2013 $10K → $1K
CENT 2010-702M Settlement Gill 2013 $6K → $3K
CENT 2004-243M Settlement Zielinski 2005 $4K → $2K
CENT 2013-624M Settlement Gill 2013 $2K → $900
CENT 2010-1297M Settlement Gill 2013 $2K → $400
CENT20020288M Settlement Barbour 2002 $587 → $587
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: 2025-12-17
4%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
35
samples
24
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz241 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg8
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (35)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2011-05-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.11 0.99 1.12 Cleanup Man
2025-12-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2025-12-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.53 1.28 0.41 Cleanup Man
2023-09-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.4 0.95 0.42 Truck Driver
2023-09-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 Mechanic
2019-10-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2019-10-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2019-10-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2019-10-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-10-29 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.33 10 0.03 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-09-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.4 0.78 0.51 Utility Man
2012-04-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2012-04-11 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 Supervisor, Co. Official
2012-04-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.47 1.22 0.39 Utility Man
2012-04-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.96 0.17 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-04-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-05-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 1.07 0.24 Truck Driver
2011-05-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.99 0.16 Truck Driver
2011-05-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.35 1.08 0.32 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-02-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.7 1.22 0.57 Laborer, Bullgang
2010-02-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.9 1.3 0.69 Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-02-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.49 1.75 0.28 Laborer, Bullgang
2010-02-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 1.54 0.10 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-04-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-04-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2009-04-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 1.2 0.13 Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-10-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 1.62 0.14 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-10-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.74 0.28 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-10-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.52 1.83 0.28 Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-10-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.57 1.13 0.50 Utility Man
2006-02-23 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.21 10 0.02 Crusher Oper/Worker
2001-11-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 1.18 0.17 Front-end Loader Operator
2001-11-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.39 0.99 0.39 Crusher Oper/Worker
2001-11-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 1.06 0.26 Front-end Loader Operator
2001-11-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 1.27 0.24 Bobcat 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.

Pocahontas Quarry 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 Arkansas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.60 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 * 5.65 0.00 0.000
2022 * 6.30 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 * 13.63 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. Jet Materials 1999 to 2010
  2. Capital Quarries Company, Inc. 2010 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 18
2025 13
2024 19
2023 18
2022 17
2021 18
2020 19
2019 13
2018 14
2017 12
2016 14
2015 16
2014 13
2013 12
2012 7
2011 4
2010 6
2009 8
2008 8
2007 7
2006 7
2005 8
2004 7
2003 8
2002 9
2001 9
2000 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Pocahontas Quarry sits in Randolph County, Arkansas, 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.
Randolph County, Arkansas · Population 18,733
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$52,838
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 9,252 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 6,400 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 4,549 2 0 439.7
2025 Q3 4,297 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 6,426 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 7,845 1 0 127.5
2024 Q4 10,172 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 9,273 2 0 215.7
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 6,366 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 7,942 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 11,001 6 1 545.4
2023 Q3 10,439 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 7,760 1 0 128.9
2023 Q1 6,226 1 0 160.6
2022 Q4 6,345 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 7,089 4 3 564.3
2022 Q2 10,178 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 8,147 4 2 491.0
2021 Q4 7,719 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 9,248 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 9,644 1 0 103.7
2021 Q1 10,528 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 12,033 1 0 83.1
2020 Q3 9,463 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 10,467 1 0 95.5
2020 Q1 8,520 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 8,325 1 0 120.1
2019 Q3 6,460 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 7,102 1 0 140.8
2019 Q1 6,636 2 0 301.4
2018 Q4 9,852 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 7,878 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 6,356 1 0 157.3
2018 Q1 5,263 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 5,968 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 6,156 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 5,603 3 0 535.4
2017 Q1 7,596 1 0 131.6
2016 Q4 6,985 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 9,110 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 9,479 1 0 105.5
2016 Q1 5,921 1 0 168.9
2015 Q4 10,070 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 8,449 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 10,089 4 0 396.5
2015 Q1 7,565 4 1 528.8
2014 Q4 7,373 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 9,258 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 7,334 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 6,840 2 0 292.4
2013 Q4 6,468 2 0 309.2
2013 Q3 6,216 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 4,944 1 1 202.3
2013 Q1 4,984 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 3,394 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 3,900 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 3,964 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,831 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,207 2 1 1657.0
2011 Q3 1,126 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 4,123 5 3 1212.7
2011 Q1 669 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 720 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 4,300 8 6 1860.5
2010 Q2 7,630 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 5,410 9 4 1663.6
2009 Q4 4,110 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 3,960 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 4,215 4 1 949.0
2009 Q1 3,300 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 4,975 9 4 1809.0
2008 Q3 4,825 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 4,560 6 0 1315.8
2008 Q1 5,120 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 5,580 18 1 3225.8
2007 Q3 8,228 4 0 486.1
2007 Q2 5,980 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 5,360 1 0 186.6
2006 Q4 8,230 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 7,042 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 5,850 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 4,060 3 0 738.9
2005 Q4 8,720 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 6,600 7 1 1060.6
2005 Q2 7,400 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 5,250 10 4 1904.8
2004 Q4 3,240 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 4,840 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 4,220 26 12 6161.1
2004 Q1 3,060 8 3 2614.4
2003 Q4 3,600 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 4,200 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 4,500 1 0 222.2
2003 Q1 4,650 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 4,910 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 4,600 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 4,450 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 3,555 5 3 1406.5
2001 Q4 3,934 4 0 1016.8
2001 Q3 4,115 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 3,867 1 0 258.6
2001 Q1 4,241 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 4,321 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 4,498 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 4,141 6 4 1448.9
2000 Q1 4,290 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

11 on file

2023 · 1 incident

September 18, 2023 AR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Capital Quarries Company, Inc. · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was picking up a used liner off of the ground and turned and leaned forward to put it in the skid steer bucket and felt a sharp pain in chest.

2022 · 1 incident

August 8, 2022 AR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Capital Quarries Company, Inc. · Fall onto or against objects

During the injury the employee was performing maintenance on a wash screen. The employee slipped and fell forward smashing EE's thumb on a bolt that holds the spray bar on the wash screen.

2018 · 2 incidents

October 10, 2018 AR · Metal/Non-Metal refuse truck driver, backfill truck driver, stock pile truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Capital Quarries Company, Inc. · Struck against stationary object

Employee was getting in truck and closing door when the employee hit elbow on cab/door frame.

August 21, 2018 AR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Capital Quarries Company, Inc. · Struck by flying object

Employee was taking off a bearing housing with a hammer and a piece broke off and hit another employee a distance away, who was working on something else.

2016 · 3 incidents

October 24, 2016 AR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Capital Quarries Company, Inc. · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Pulling on a wrench installing a torque converter and strained right elbow.

October 24, 2016 AR · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Capital Quarries Company, Inc. · Struck by falling object

Employee was taken off back plate of screen and it fell on hand/wrist area.

October 6, 2016 AR · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Capital Quarries Company, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

The employee was running a loader and as it was going down the hill into the pit the bucket's edge starting digging into ground making it come to an abrupt stop.

2015 · 2 incidents

September 2, 2015 AR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Capital Quarries Company, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee tossed an impact gun up to another employee on a platform and it came back down and he tried to catch it and cut his hand.

March 17, 2015 AR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Capital Quarries Company, Inc. · Struck by falling object

The employee was in the process of cleaning under the primary crusher using a John Deere 318 D skidsteer. While he was performing his work, a rock fell from above and struck him in his lower right leg.

2013 · 2 incidents

July 8, 2013 AR · Metal/Non-Metal draftsman, surveyor/transit work supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Capital Quarries Company, Inc. · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE was in the process of removing a tripod from the rear of his vehicle. While reaching in with his right arm to lift up,he felt a pop in his shoulder. At doctor visit the EE received a shot in the shoulder.

March 4, 2013 AR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Capital Quarries Company, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The EE was in the process of removing wedges from an impact crusher. He was using two sledge hammers to work them loose. While he was hitting them back and fourth to loosen the EE missed the wedge and struck his hand with head of sledge hammer. No broken bones x-rays negative, RX for pain.