Pottsville Quarry has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
Watch this mine
Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at Pottsville Quarry.
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
13
Years on record
2009–2024
Latest incident
Oct 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
75
citations
18
significant & substantial
$12,134
proposed penalties
$12,134
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
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: 816 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Pottsville Quarry has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$12K
proposed penalties
$12K
current assessed
$12K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
72 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $100 in penalties contested before the Commission, $100 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-06.
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.
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.
1citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
Settled
1 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$100 proposed, $100 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2010-03-30.
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.
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: 2025-10-07
10%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
21
samples
20
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz111 over
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz91 over
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (21)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-10-07
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.28
0.26
1.08
Laborer, Bullgang
2022-09-28
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
11.18
10
1.12
Utility Man
2025-10-07
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.2
0.26
0.77
Laborer, Bullgang
2024-12-04
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.27
0.3
0.90
Laborer, Bullgang
2024-12-04
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.21
0.31
0.68
Laborer, Bullgang
2024-06-25
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.31
0.34
0.91
Laborer, Bullgang
2024-06-25
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.36
0.39
0.92
Laborer, Bullgang
2022-11-15
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
4.34
10
0.43
Utility Man
2022-09-28
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.72
10
0.07
Shovel Operator
2022-09-28
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
2.6
10
0.26
Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-09-28
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
6.21
10
0.62
Truck Driver
2022-09-28
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
3.55
10
0.36
Laborer, Bullgang
2019-05-08
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.39
10
0.04
Truck Driver
2019-05-08
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.29
10
0.03
Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-05-08
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0
10
0.00
Front-end Loader Operator
2017-05-25
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2017-05-25
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.28
1.4
0.20
Truck Driver
2017-05-25
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
0.31
0.48
Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-01-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.26
0.45
0.58
Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-01-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.34
0.37
0.92
Utility Man
2010-01-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
0.52
0.29
Truck Driver
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.
Pottsville 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 Pennsylvania, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.07 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 *
6.73
0.00
0.000
2023 *
21.52
7.17
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
6.64
0.00
0.000
2018 *
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
22
2025
18
2024
16
2023
16
2022
15
2021
14
2020
13
2019
13
2018
12
2017
12
2016
12
2015
15
2014
12
2013
11
2012
8
2011
8
2010
8
2009
5
2008
2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Pottsville Quarry sits in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 1.1% 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.
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania · Population 143,259
1.1%
Mining share of county employment
$66,901
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
11,376
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
8,190
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
7,551
1
0
132.4
2025 Q3
9,348
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
9,530
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
6,384
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
6,405
1
0
156.1
2024 Q3
8,135
1
0
122.9
Show 63 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
9,200
2
1
217.4
2024 Q1
5,979
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
5,670
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
8,815
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
7,217
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
6,175
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
6,167
1
0
162.2
2022 Q3
9,346
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
7,668
1
0
130.4
2022 Q1
6,722
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
6,324
2
0
316.3
2021 Q3
5,929
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
6,096
0
0
0.0
2021 Q1
5,017
0
0
0.0
2020 Q4
5,930
1
0
168.6
2020 Q3
2,092
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
6,953
5
2
719.1
2020 Q1
7,292
5
2
685.7
2019 Q4
6,473
0
0
0.0
2019 Q3
7,373
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
8,229
2
0
243.0
2019 Q1
8,055
3
0
372.4
2018 Q4
7,249
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
7,120
0
0
0.0
2018 Q2
7,636
3
0
392.9
2018 Q1
5,492
3
0
546.2
2017 Q4
5,489
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
7,023
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
7,482
1
0
133.7
2017 Q1
4,968
3
2
603.9
2016 Q4
5,670
0
0
0.0
2016 Q3
7,467
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
6,930
3
1
432.9
2016 Q1
4,733
3
1
633.8
2015 Q4
5,763
0
0
0.0
2015 Q3
7,383
4
1
541.8
2015 Q2
7,804
0
0
0.0
2015 Q1
4,235
2
0
472.3
2014 Q4
6,156
0
0
0.0
2014 Q3
7,032
1
0
142.2
2014 Q2
4,429
0
0
0.0
2014 Q1
2,504
0
0
0.0
2013 Q4
3,491
2
0
572.9
2013 Q3
3,527
0
0
0.0
2013 Q2
3,870
1
0
258.4
2013 Q1
3,701
0
0
0.0
2012 Q4
3,721
1
0
268.7
2012 Q3
3,436
0
0
0.0
2012 Q2
3,504
1
0
285.4
2012 Q1
3,563
1
1
280.7
2011 Q4
3,719
0
0
0.0
2011 Q3
3,629
2
0
551.1
2011 Q2
3,846
0
0
0.0
2011 Q1
2,984
2
0
670.2
2010 Q4
4,237
0
0
0.0
2010 Q3
4,845
0
0
0.0
2010 Q2
3,385
0
0
0.0
2010 Q1
2,569
2
0
778.5
2009 Q4
2,708
0
0
0.0
2009 Q3
3,013
1
0
331.9
2009 Q2
1,580
1
0
632.9
2009 Q1
902
1
0
1108.6
2008 Q4
165
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
13 on file
2024 · 1 incident
October 4, 2024PA · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanPOWERED HAULAGE