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Quinton Twp Pit: 82 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Vulcan Materials Company
Quinton, NJ, Salem County, NJ  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2801014

Quinton Twp Pit has $20K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2020
Latest incident
Mar 2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
82
citations
16
significant & substantial
$19,892
proposed penalties
$19,071
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $821 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
45
inspections on record
588
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: 588 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: 2020-08-18.
On record since 2020.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Quinton Twp Pit has $20K 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.
$20K
proposed penalties
$19K
current assessed
$19K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
81 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $877 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-17.
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.
19.8%
significant & substantial
7.4%
high negligence or reckless
19.8%
reasonably likely or greater
25.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 21.0% low, 71.6% moderate, 7.4% 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 · 4% 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 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
48%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2K proposed, $877 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 2020-10-29.
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 2021-0006 Settlement Paez 2021 $2K → $877
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: 2024-12-03
15
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg11
  • Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz4
Show the individual readings (15)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-12-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Scraper Operator
2024-12-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2024-04-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2024-04-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2024-04-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-10-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-10-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2019-04-24 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0.2 Backhoe Operator
2019-04-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2019-04-24 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0.36 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-04-24 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0.13 Bulldozer Operator
2019-04-24 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0 Truck Driver
2015-10-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-10-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2015-10-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 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.

Quinton Twp Pit 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 New Jersey, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.60 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 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 7.77 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2017 * 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. Corbett Aggregate Companies 2004 to 2017
  2. Eastern Concrete Materials Inc 2017 to 2022
  3. Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC 2023 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 10
2025 11
2024 12
2023 11
2022 8
2021 14
2020 13
2019 16
2018 16
2017 13
2016 9
2015 7
2014 5
2010 0
2009 2
2008 2
2007 7
2006 8
2005 5
2004 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Quinton Twp Pit sits in Salem County, New Jersey, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Salem County, New Jersey · Population 64,973
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$78,412
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 4,526 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 4,329 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 4,895 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 5,330 2 0 375.2
2025 Q2 5,191 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 4,931 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4,861 1 0 205.7
2024 Q3 6,111 0 0 0.0
Show 66 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 6,576 3 1 456.2
2024 Q1 5,863 2 1 341.1
2023 Q4 6,276 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 5,687 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 5,044 2 0 396.5
2023 Q1 4,295 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 4,371 2 0 457.6
2022 Q3 4,796 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 4,732 1 0 211.3
2022 Q1 2,565 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 7,335 2 1 272.7
2021 Q3 7,486 2 0 267.2
2021 Q2 8,363 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 8,102 1 0 123.4
2020 Q4 6,693 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 6,060 4 2 660.1
2020 Q2 4,539 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 8,449 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 8,602 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 8,821 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 8,905 2 0 224.6
2019 Q1 8,461 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 7,294 7 4 959.7
2018 Q3 7,555 3 0 397.1
2018 Q2 7,364 1 0 135.8
2018 Q1 6,728 3 0 445.9
2017 Q4 7,157 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 8,289 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 6,096 3 0 492.1
2017 Q1 4,200 3 0 714.3
2016 Q4 4,864 4 0 822.4
2016 Q3 5,717 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 5,896 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 4,832 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 4,552 4 2 878.7
2015 Q3 4,744 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 4,359 4 1 917.6
2015 Q1 2,520 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 3,025 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 3,113 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,984 5 0 2520.2
2014 Q1 464 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 64 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 386 9 1 23316.1
2009 Q1 220 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 720 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 904 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 582 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 288 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 2,209 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 4,988 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,710 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 4,507 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 4,760 4 0 840.3
2006 Q3 4,930 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 4,538 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 4,310 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 3,687 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,362 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 2,095 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 2,256 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 2,659 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,768 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2020 · 1 incident

March 9, 2020 NJ · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer OTHER
Eastern Concrete Materials Inc · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

Employee was bitten on hand by racoon.