Mining Incidents

Rehler Pit: 32 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Giardini Brothers Construction Company Inc · Surface
Allegany, Cattaraugus County, NY  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3003176

Rehler Pit has $6K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
32
citations
3
significant & substantial
$6,325
proposed penalties
$4,925
paid to date
78% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,400 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
38
inspections on record
388
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: 388 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Rehler Pit has $6K 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
30 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $3K in penalties contested before the Commission, $2K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-03-13.
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.
9.7%
significant & substantial
3.2%
high negligence or reckless
9.7%
reasonably likely or greater
51.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 32.3% low, 64.5% moderate, 3.2% 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 · 6% 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%
43%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$5K proposed, $3K 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 2007-12-01.
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 2008-50M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $3K → $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: 2017-06-13, 9 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2017-06-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.58 0.26 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-10-23 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.2 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-06-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2005-06-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.43 0.45 0.96 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.
Ownership history
  1. Giardini Brothers Construction Company Inc 1996 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 3
2023 2
2022 2
2021 3
2020 2
2019 3
2018 3
2017 3
2016 3
2015 4
2014 4
2013 2
2012 2
2011 2
2010 1
2009 1
2008 1
2007 1
2006 2
2005 1
2004 2
2003 1
2002 2
2001 1
2000 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Rehler Pit sits in Cattaraugus County, New York, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Cattaraugus County, New York · Population 76,479
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$58,248
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 594 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 262 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 362 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 611 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 699 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 274 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 384 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 518 0 0 0.0
Show 97 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 630 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 689 1 0 1451.4
2023 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 542 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 173 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3 2 0 666666.7
2022 Q4 522 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 470 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 466 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 188 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 558 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 608 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 564 1 0 1773.0
2021 Q1 318 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 406 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 475 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 499 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 170 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 379 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 962 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 624 1 0 1602.6
2019 Q1 201 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 800 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 988 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 722 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 780 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 965 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 974 3 2 3080.1
2017 Q1 519 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 587 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 827 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,223 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 909 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,021 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,048 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,414 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 305 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 895 1 0 1117.3
2014 Q3 1,897 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,340 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 297 1 0 3367.0
2013 Q4 836 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,176 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,347 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 508 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 834 3 0 3597.1
2012 Q3 1,342 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 994 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,070 2 0 1869.2
2011 Q4 700 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 620 1 0 1612.9
2011 Q2 375 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 175 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 180 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 340 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 135 2 0 14814.8
2009 Q3 430 2 0 4651.2
2009 Q2 360 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 350 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 200 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 160 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 125 1 0 8000.0
2007 Q3 430 1 0 2325.6
2007 Q2 130 3 0 23076.9
2007 Q1 80 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 120 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 360 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 360 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 180 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 0 0 0
2005 Q3 840 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 730 2 0 2739.7
2005 Q1 250 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 250 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 920 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 920 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 80 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 200 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 245 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 430 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 960 1 0 1041.7
2002 Q2 900 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 160 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 960 3 1 3125.0
2001 Q2 160 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 190 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 0 0 0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.