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: 618 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Reform Quarry has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $10 outstanding across 11 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.
$13K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$10
outstanding
81 assessments are final orders; 11 contested dockets.
Of $7K in penalties contested before the Commission, $5K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-06-25.
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.
28citations taken to the federal commission · 35% of citations on record
Settled
25 · 89%
Stood as issued
2 · 7%
Vacated or withdrawn
1 · 4%
31%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 13 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
31%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$5K 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2019-08-06.
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: 2023-07-11, 3 years ago
8%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
31
samples
24
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz192 over
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz7
Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (31)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2023-06-06
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
3.22
2.5
1.29
Supervisor, Co. Official
2005-08-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.03
0.86
1.20
Truck Driver
2023-07-11
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.28
Supervisor, Co. Official
2023-06-06
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.87
Front-end Loader Operator
2023-06-06
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.33
2.33
0.57
Front-end Loader Operator
2020-04-14
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2019-06-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2019-06-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2014-10-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.4
1.76
0.23
Crusher Oper/Worker
2014-10-16
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.15
10
0.02
Truck Driver
2014-10-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.19
1.58
0.12
Truck Driver
2014-10-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2014-10-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.27
1.56
0.17
Truck Driver
2012-10-31
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.72
10
0.07
Truck Driver
2012-10-31
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.24
10
0.02
Front-end Loader Operator
2012-10-31
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.46
10
0.05
Truck Driver
2012-10-31
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.28
10
0.03
Truck Driver
2011-01-05
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.25
10
0.03
Front-end Loader Operator
2011-01-05
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.81
2.63
0.31
Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-01-05
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.16
Front-end Loader Operator
2011-01-05
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.01
1.94
0.52
Laborer, Bullgang
2011-01-05
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.21
10
0.02
Truck Driver
2007-10-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.14
1.05
0.13
Truck Driver
2007-10-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.65
1.85
0.89
Front-end Loader Operator
2007-10-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.3
1.23
0.24
Truck Driver
2005-08-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.66
1.05
0.63
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-08-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.95
1.04
0.91
Truck Driver
2001-05-02
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.35
1.82
0.19
Crusher Oper/Worker
2001-05-02
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.39
0.69
0.57
Truck Driver
2001-05-02
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.58
1.46
0.40
Truck Driver
2001-05-02
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.57
1.71
0.33
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.
Reform Quarry recorded 9.21 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.
9.21
total case rate
9.21
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 Missouri, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 6.34 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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
1
2025
1
2024
1
2023
1
2022
1
2021
1
2020
2
2019
3
2018
4
2017
4
2016
5
2015
7
2014
8
2013
7
2012
7
2011
5
2010
5
2009
4
2008
8
2007
9
2006
4
2005
7
2004
6
2003
5
2002
6
2001
5
2000
9
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Reform Quarry sits in Callaway County, Missouri, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Callaway County, Missouri · Population 44,541
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$72,645
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
Employee slipped on the mud and fell while rolling out a 6in pump hose and strained their right shoulder 4/8/21. Reported it to manager 4/9/21 and refused medical evaluation until 4/28/21 at 1015am. EE was prescribed medication 4/28/21 making this a recordable injury.
2013 · 1 incident
April 22, 2013MO · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
CLIMBING ONTO LOADER, SLIPPED ON WET TIRE AND LANDED ON GROUND, IMPACT ON HEELS.
1999 · 2 incidents
December 15, 1999MO · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EMPLOYEE PULLED OR STRAINED MUSCLES IN HIS BACK WHEN LIFTING DRILL STEEL.
1998 · 2 incidents
November 16, 1998MO · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EE WAS MOVING THE DRILL. HE HAD A HOSE IN THE WAY AGAINST CO SAFETY POLICY TRIED TO KICK IT OUT OF THE WAY IN THE PROCESS THE DRILL RAN OVER HIS FOOT BREAKING HIS 2ND TOE OF HIS LEFT FOOT.
1993 · 1 incident
June 30, 1993MO · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON