Mining Incidents

Raymond St: 57 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Michael P Vondra
S. Elgin, Kane County, IL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1102962

Raymond St has $8K 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
12
Years on record
1995–2003
Latest incident
Oct 2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
57
citations
8
significant & substantial
$7,880
proposed penalties
$7,822
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $58 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
27
inspections on record
375
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: 375 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Raymond St has $8K 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
57 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $4K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-10-23.
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.
14.0%
significant & substantial
1.8%
high negligence or reckless
14.0%
reasonably likely or greater
43.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 24.6% low, 73.7% moderate, 1.8% 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.
16 citations taken to the federal commission · 28% of citations on record
  • Settled 15 · 94%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 6%
33%
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%
4%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$4K proposed, $4K 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 2011-01-24.
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
LAKE 2011-342M Settlement Tureck 2011 $2K → $2K
LAKE 2011-343M Settlement Tureck 2011 $2K → $2K
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: 2010-11-18, 15 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (6)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2010-11-18 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.3 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-11-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 1.03 0.12 Screen/Scalper Operator
2010-11-18 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0.33 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-11-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-11-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.4 1.59 0.25 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-11-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
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.

Raymond St recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2005.

Injury rate, 2005
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 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.21 cases per 100 workers.
In Illinois, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.53 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
2005 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 7.60 7.60 0.000
2002 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2001 * 13.49 6.75 0.000
2000 * 12.19 6.09 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. Bluff City Materials, Inc. 1994 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2012 3
2011 4
2010 3
2009 1
2008 5
2007 9
2006 7
2005 12
2004 10
2003 11
2002 9
2001 16
2000 14
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Raymond St sits in Kane County, Illinois, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Kane County, Illinois · Population 516,097
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$100,678
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
2012 Q4 2,383 2 0 839.3
2012 Q3 2,316 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 102 3 1 29411.8
2012 Q1 282 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,623 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 3,028 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,527 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 589 0 0 0.0
Show 42 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2010 Q4 2,341 15 1 6407.5
2010 Q3 1,747 6 4 3434.5
2010 Q2 337 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 706 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 27 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,553 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 3,175 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 3,297 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 3,029 4 0 1320.6
2007 Q4 4,556 5 0 1097.5
2007 Q3 8,054 2 0 248.3
2007 Q2 5,021 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 2,003 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,615 1 0 276.6
2006 Q3 2,975 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 5,717 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 4,613 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 6,855 3 0 437.6
2005 Q3 7,853 4 0 509.4
2005 Q2 8,485 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 5,590 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 7,003 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 10,794 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 4,340 2 0 460.8
2004 Q1 3,035 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 7,275 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 7,453 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 7,121 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 4,461 2 0 448.3
2002 Q4 5,460 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 4,937 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 5,247 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 5,071 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 10,310 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 3,763 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 11,949 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 3,623 7 2 1932.1
2000 Q4 8,530 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 10,752 1 0 93.0
2000 Q2 9,028 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 4,508 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

12 on file

2003 · 1 incident

October 9, 2003 IL · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Bluff City Materials, Inc. · Struck against stationary object

PERFORMING ROUTINE MAINTENANCE ON CEDAR-RAPIDS CRUSHER, BUMPED RIGHT ELBOW ON STEEL FRAMING.

2001 · 2 incidents

August 3, 2001 IL · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Bluff City Materials, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

TWO EMPLOYEES WERE REPAIRING GUARD RAIL FOR MATERIAL SCALE. AS ONE WAS PUSHING THE OTHER WAS PULLING AND LET GO, THEREFORE HITTING HIMSELF WITH I-BEAM.

April 6, 2001 IL · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec MACHINERY
Bluff City Materials, Inc. · Struck by falling object

EE WAS REMOVING THE CUTTING EDGE FROM AN END LOADER. HE REMOVED THE FINAL SCREW & MISJUDGED WHERE HE WAS AND DROPPED THE PLATE ON HIS RIGHT FOOT.

2000 · 2 incidents

1999 · 1 incident

July 14, 1999 IL · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Bluff City Materials, Inc. · Fall to the walkway or working surface

SPLICING CONVEYOR. STEP DOWN OFF CONVEYOR TO GET A WRENCH AND SLIPPED.

1998 · 1 incident

June 8, 1998 IL · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Bluff City Materials, Inc. · Struck against stationary object

EE LOST HIS BALANCE WHEN THE RATVCHET SLIPPED HE WAS USING TO TIGHTEN THE LUG NUTS ON A CONVEYOR WHEEL AT WEST BARTLETT. ALL HIS WEIGHT WENT ON HIS THUMB.

1997 · 2 incidents

September 11, 1997 IL · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Bluff City Materials, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS CRUSHING CONCRETE AND A PIECE OF WIRE PROTRUDING FROM CONCRETE TANGLED HIS FOOTING CAUSING HIM TO TRIP AND FALL W/A WRENCH IN HIS HAND. WHEN HE FELL, THE WRENCH CRUSHED HIS RT INDEX FIN GER BETWEEN IT AND A PIECE OF CONCRETE.

June 24, 1997 IL · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Bluff City Materials, Inc. · Fall from machine

WHILE GOING TO CLIMB INTO A CASE CHILOADER, EE FELL AND BUMPED HIS RIGHT LEG, HE DID NOT TELL US OF THE ACCIDENT AT THE TIME BECAUSE HE SAID HE DID NOT THINK IT WAS A BIG DEAL.

1996 · 2 incidents

August 30, 1996 IL · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Bluff City Materials, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE TWISTED HIS ANKLE IN PIT AREA. EE STEPPED OFF CONVEYOR ONTO CONCRETE BLOCK AS HE PROCEEDED TO STEP TO THE GOUND HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

June 4, 1996 IL · Metal/Non-Metal HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Bluff City Materials, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HEAVY WIRE OR REBAR HIT HIM IN THE FACE. BRUISED AND SPLIT LIP, BLEEDING FROM THE LIP AND GUMS. CHIPPED AND CRACKED TOOTH.

1995 · 1 incident