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Port Elizabeth Plant: 21 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by USS Holdings Inc
Port Elizabeth, Cumberland County, NJ  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2800510

Port Elizabeth Plant has $2K 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
8
Years on record
1983–2013
Latest incident
Jun 2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
21
citations
3
significant & substantial
$2,410
proposed penalties
$2,410
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See U.S. Silica Company, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
52
inspections on record
465
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: 465 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Port Elizabeth Plant has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-22.
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.
14.3%
significant & substantial
4.8%
high negligence or reckless
14.3%
reasonably likely or greater
33.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 33.3% low, 61.9% moderate, 4.8% 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: 2023-10-25
7
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2023-10-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-06-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-01-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-07-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-07-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dredge/Barge Operator
2009-10-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-10-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dragline 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.

Port Elizabeth Plant recorded 8.22 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2000.

Injury rate, 2000
ⓘ 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.
8.22
total case rate
8.22
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.77 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
In New Jersey, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.64 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.
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. George F Pettinos Inc 1950 to 1988
  2. Morie Company Inc 1988 to 1996
  3. Unimin Corp 1996 to 1999
  4. Better Materials Corp 1999 to 2005
  5. U.S. Silica Company, LLC 2005 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 1
2024 1
2023 1
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 2
2012 2
2011 2
2010 2
2009 2
2008 2
2007 2
2006 2
2005 2
2002 4
2001 7
2000 11
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Port Elizabeth Plant sits in Cumberland County, New Jersey, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Cumberland County, New Jersey · Population 152,915
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$64,499
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 545 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 448 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 413 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 432 1 0 2314.8
2025 Q2 574 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 548 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 526 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 482 0 0 0.0
Show 87 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 490 1 0 2040.8
2024 Q1 632 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 619 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 610 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 378 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 450 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 174 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 213 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 758 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 658 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 588 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 598 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 621 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 349 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 911 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 820 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 323 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 896 1 0 1116.1
2019 Q4 847 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,056 2 0 1893.9
2019 Q2 1,199 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,324 1 0 755.3
2018 Q4 1,364 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,135 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 718 2 0 2785.5
2018 Q1 945 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,449 1 0 690.1
2017 Q3 930 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,650 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,301 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,263 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,250 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 956 2 1 2092.1
2016 Q1 1,052 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,101 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,081 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,362 1 0 734.2
2015 Q1 1,164 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,313 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 791 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 953 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 755 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 888 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 965 1 0 1036.3
2013 Q2 1,274 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 706 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 956 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 904 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,066 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 990 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 904 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 771 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 975 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 906 1 0 1103.8
2010 Q4 903 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 771 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 927 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 853 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 982 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 602 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 749 2 0 2670.2
2009 Q1 787 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 784 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,223 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 554 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 765 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 985 1 0 1015.2
2007 Q3 1,338 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,167 1 0 856.9
2007 Q1 1,192 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,227 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,574 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,457 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,718 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,527 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,423 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,218 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,253 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 3,440 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 3,550 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 4,749 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 5,473 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 5,314 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 5,890 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 5,989 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 5,850 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 6,588 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

8 on file

2013 · 1 incident

June 17, 2013 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal FIRE
U.S. Silica Company, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

The Volvo 220F loader had a fire in the engine compartment that destroyed the loader.

2001 · 1 incident

September 13, 2001 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS
Better Materials Corp · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

CHEST X-RAY DIAGNOSED BY CONSENSUS READING ILO 1/1 MAJORITY OF EXPOSURE OCCURRED DURING EMPLOYMENT WITH MORIE CO. WHICH WAS PURCHASED BY UNIMIN CORP AND IN 1999 BY USSUICA/BETTER MATERIALS COR P.

2000 · 1 incident

May 23, 2000 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal scalper-screen operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Better Materials Corp · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE CHANGING SCREEN ON US-01. OPERATOR WS TWISTING AND TURNING TO REMOVE SCREEN, PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.

1997 · 1 incident

June 23, 1997 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Unimin Corp · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EE AND FELLOW WORKER EE WERE PERFORMING THE TASK OF LIFTING THE SCREEN AND FRAM EINTO POSITION ON THE OHIO PORTABLE SCREEN/BLENDING UNIT THIS TASK INVOLVES LIFTING THE SCREEN/FRAME OUT OF A L OADER BUCKET AND LIFTING IT OVERHEAD INTO POSITION, AND THEN SLIDING IN INTO POSITION. THE SCREEN/FRAME ASSEMBLY WEIGHS APPROX 250 LBS. AND WHILE LIFTING/SLIDING THE ASSEMBLY INTO PLACE THE

1996 · 1 incident

February 11, 1996 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Morie Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE STEPPED ONTO WORKBOAT FLOOR & SPRAINED LEFT ANKLE.

1989 · 1 incident

September 14, 1989 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Morie Company Inc · Struck by flying object

WHILE GRINDING A PIECE OF METAL ON THE ELCTRIC GRINDER A FRAGMENT OF METAL WENT INTO EMPLS R EYE

1988 · 1 incident

November 4, 1988 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Morie Company Inc · Struck by flying object

WHILE DRILLING HOLES IN MARSP LINING MATERIAL A PIECE OF MATERIAL FLEW INTO AND BECAME EMBEDDED IN EMPLOYEES RT EYE

1983 · 1 incident

June 13, 1983 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
George F Pettinos Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

LIFTING BAGS ON PALLET MOVED WRONG WAY