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RED HILL QUARRY: 49 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

North Garden, Albemarle County, VA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4400072

RED HILL QUARRY 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
13
Years on record
1992–2026
Latest incident
Jul 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
49
citations
10
significant & substantial
$20,336
proposed penalties
$11,163
paid to date
55% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $9,173 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See MARTIN MARIETTA MATERIALS, INC.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
75
inspections on record
1,694
inspection hours
2.9
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.
49 citations across 1,694 inspection hours.
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: 2019-05-15.
On record since 2019.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

RED HILL QUARRY 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
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
48 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $10K in penalties contested before the Commission, $446 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-20.
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.
20.8%
significant & substantial
2.1%
high negligence or reckless
20.8%
reasonably likely or greater
70.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 4.2% none, 20.8% low, 72.9% moderate, 2.1% 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.
2 citations taken to the federal commission · 4% of citations on record
  • Settled 2 · 100%
0%
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%
95%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$10K proposed, $446 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 2017-11-28.
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
VA 2018-0027 Settlement Paez 2018 $10K → $446
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: 2025-09-03
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
31
samples
11
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg16
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz11
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz3
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (31)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-09-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-09-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Screen/Scalper Operator
2025-09-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2023-04-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2023-04-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Drill Operator, Rotary
2023-04-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-04-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2023-04-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 0.65 0.34 Crusher Oper/Worker
2021-05-19 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 10 0.01 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-05-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.38 Truck Driver
2021-05-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2021-05-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.37 1 0.37 Laborer, Bullgang
2021-05-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-01-23 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Crusher Oper/Worker
2018-01-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2018-01-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-07-29 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.37 Mechanic
2015-07-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2015-07-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2015-07-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2011-04-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2011-04-28 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Mechanic
2011-04-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 1.5 0.12 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2011-04-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Loader
2011-04-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.74 0.18 Cleanup Man
2006-04-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.56 1.01 0.55 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-07-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.44 1.12 0.39 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-07-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.53 0.8 0.66 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-07-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.99 0.15 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2004-07-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.53 2.47 0.21 Laborer, Bullgang
2004-07-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.09 2.12 0.51 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.

RED HILL 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
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
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 Virginia, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.37 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
2022 * 0.00 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 * 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. Martin Marietta Aggregates 1950 to 2000
  2. Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. 2000 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 13
2025 13
2024 13
2023 15
2022 15
2021 15
2020 15
2019 15
2018 15
2017 16
2016 17
2015 13
2014 13
2013 14
2012 13
2011 15
2010 15
2009 15
2008 15
2007 15
2006 15
2005 16
2004 15
2003 15
2002 15
2001 14
2000 16
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

RED HILL QUARRY sits in Albemarle County, Virginia, 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.
Albemarle County, Virginia · Population 113,683
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$102,617
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 7,219 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 6,302 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 5,948 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 6,255 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 7,646 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 5,737 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 6,302 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 6,276 0 0 0.0
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 6,535 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 6,510 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 6,794 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 6,709 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 7,002 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 7,046 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 7,073 1 0 141.4
2022 Q3 6,934 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 6,650 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 6,154 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 6,950 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 6,966 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 7,159 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 6,577 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 7,100 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 7,270 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 7,454 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 7,442 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 7,719 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 7,685 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 7,605 4 2 526.0
2019 Q1 6,851 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 7,669 3 2 391.2
2018 Q3 8,162 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 7,957 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 7,396 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 9,397 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 9,075 1 0 110.2
2017 Q2 9,179 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 7,712 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 8,109 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 10,334 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 9,574 2 2 208.9
2016 Q1 9,020 3 0 332.6
2015 Q4 9,044 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 9,600 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 8,877 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 6,425 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 7,331 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 8,489 1 0 117.8
2014 Q2 8,022 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 5,556 2 0 360.0
2013 Q4 7,991 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 8,399 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 7,634 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 6,522 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 7,352 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 7,085 1 0 141.1
2012 Q2 5,961 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 6,494 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 7,165 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 7,958 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 5,906 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 6,385 3 0 469.9
2010 Q4 6,081 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 7,258 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 9,056 1 1 110.4
2010 Q1 7,615 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 7,619 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 7,476 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 7,663 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 5,744 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 6,857 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 8,893 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 9,029 1 0 110.8
2008 Q1 8,070 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 8,303 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 8,731 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 9,216 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 7,681 1 0 130.2
2006 Q4 7,123 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 8,151 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 9,357 3 1 320.6
2006 Q1 9,970 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 9,489 1 0 105.4
2005 Q3 11,061 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 10,470 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 9,026 3 0 332.4
2004 Q4 9,802 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 8,434 1 0 118.6
2004 Q2 9,078 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 8,116 2 0 246.4
2003 Q4 7,420 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 8,226 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 7,630 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 5,830 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 5,822 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 7,507 1 0 133.2
2002 Q2 8,870 3 0 338.2
2002 Q1 7,107 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 8,179 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 7,624 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 7,070 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 5,846 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 7,356 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 8,042 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 8,679 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 7,497 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

13 on file

2026 · 1 incident

July 30, 2026 VA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. · Fall from machine

EE was backing down out of cab of truck on drivers side. EE was holding drivers door with both hands & feet on top step. As they stepped down their left foot made contact with the lower step but slipped off. As they started to fall their body rotated outward away from cab & lost grip of door. During the fall they balled up & landed on their left shoulder onto a flat gravel lot.

2014 · 1 incident

July 2, 2014 VA · Metal/Non-Metal ground controller HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was helping lift a 2 1/2" inch woven wire screen on the top screen deck . When had lifted the screen approximately 12" to 18" off the floor, he felt something pop in his left arm. He was taken to the doctor that day, who diagnosed it as a strain. He was returned to regular duty.

2011 · 1 incident

December 14, 2011 VA · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was moving the gasoline de-watering pump, shifting it down hill. Reached to get gas can and felt a twinge in lower back.

2006 · 1 incident

August 30, 2006 VA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee working on 990 loader bucket removing wear plates between teeth. Had impact gun on nut. When trigger was hit, bolt dropped, wrench came off and bolt cut employee's left hand.

2005 · 2 incidents

May 11, 2005 VA · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Individual experienced a STS shift in audiogram over 25dB on left ear only, and only at the 4000 level.

January 28, 2005 VA · Metal/Non-Metal master mechanic, foreman, supervisor HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

Employee was swinging a 20 lb. sledge hammer tightening bolts on an NPK hammer when back went out.

2004 · 1 incident

May 24, 2004 VA · Metal/Non-Metal coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was walking downstairs to A-Tunnel when right ankle gave out and employee fractured bone in right foot.

1998 · 1 incident

September 23, 1998 VA · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman STRIKING OR BUMPING
Martin Marietta Aggregates · Struck against stationary object

EE STRUCK STEEL PLATE (MOTOR SUPPORT) WHEN HE STOOD UP FROM ADJUSTING WATER FLOW ON VIBRATING SCREEN

1997 · 1 incident

December 2, 1997 VA · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) MACHINERY
Martin Marietta Aggregates · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO STOP ROTATION OF A HANDGRINDER WHEEL WHEN LEFT HAND ON FRONT HANDLE SLIPPED AND CONTACTED THE GRINDING WHEEL. THE WHEEL CUT THROUGH THE EMPLOYEE'S WORK GLOVES, LACER ATING THE THIRD DIGIT.

1995 · 1 incident

May 9, 1995 VA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Aggregates · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS CLEANIGN OUT A CRUSHER AT APPROX 11:30 AM AAT APPROX 6 PM EE INFORMED EMPLOYEE HE PULLED A MSUCLE IN HIS CHEST. AT 7:05 AM EE CALLE DOFFICE AND INFORMED EE OF HIS INJURY AND THAT HE WS GOING TO THE DR . AT 7 AM EMPLOYEE'S WIFE CALLED AN DINFORMED EE THAT EE WOULD NTO BE INTO WORK.

1994 · 2 incidents

July 27, 1994 VA · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger MACHINERY
Martin Marietta Aggregates · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A DERRICK HOIST AT THE PRIMARY CRUSHER. THE BRAKE MECHANISM HANDLE RECOILED AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEES LEFT HAND.

July 22, 1994 VA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Martin Marietta Aggregates · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING IN A GYRATORY CRUSHER HE RAISED HIS WELDING HOOD AND MOVE DHIS POSITION, AT THIS TIME HE STRUCK HIS FACE AND EYE WITH THE WELDING ROD IN THE STINGER.

1992 · 1 incident

May 14, 1992 VA · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator MACHINERY
Martin Marietta Aggregates · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPL HAD END OF RIGHT INDEX FINGER CAUGHT BY POWER WRENCH ON A ROCK DRILL.A NEW OPERATOR WAS BEING TRAINED AND EMPL MOVED THE WRONG CONTROL LEVER CAUSING WRENCH TO MOVE SUDDENLY CATCHIN OTHER EMPL FINGER.