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Rochester Quarry: 100 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Thomas B Fabbioli
Rochester, Windsor County, VT  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4300043

Rochester Quarry has $32K 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
21
Years on record
1986–2001
Latest incident
Jul 2001
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
100
citations
29
significant & substantial
$32,358
proposed penalties
$27,358
paid to date
85% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $5,000 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Vermont Verde Antique LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
35
inspections on record
541
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: 541 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Rochester Quarry has $32K 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.
$32K
proposed penalties
$27K
current assessed
$27K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
94 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $10K in penalties contested before the Commission, $5K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-11-08.
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.
29.0%
significant & substantial
13.0%
high negligence or reckless
29.0%
reasonably likely or greater
73.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 21.0% low, 66.0% moderate, 13.0% 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 · 2% of citations on record
  • Settled 2 · 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%
0%
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 2012-11-09.
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
YORK20020056M Settlement Hodgdon 2002 $6K → $1K
YORK 2013-37M Settlement Lesnick 2013 $4K → $4K
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: 2019-09-11, 6 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
10
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg5
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (10)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2019-09-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2019-09-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2019-09-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2012-08-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cutting Mach Operator
2012-08-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2004-05-26 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 2.11 10 0.21 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2004-05-26 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.21 10 0.02 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2004-05-26 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 1.85 10 0.19 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2002-05-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.3 0.57 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2002-05-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 0.23 0.52 Stone Polisher/Cutter
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. Vermont Marble Company 1950 to 1993
  2. Vermont Verde Antique International Inc 1993 to 2007
  3. Vermont Verde Antique LLC 2007 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 1
2022 0
2021 1
2020 1
2019 1
2018 1
2017 0
2016 1
2015 1
2014 0
2013 2
2012 2
2009 0
2008 2
2007 2
2006 3
2005 3
2004 3
2003 3
2002 3
2001 5
2000 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Rochester Quarry sits in Windsor County, Vermont, 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.
Windsor County, Vermont · Population 57,968
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$75,247
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 80 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 4 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,400 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 48 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 400 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 650 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 4 0 0 0.0
Show 85 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 750 5 1 6666.7
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 0 0 0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 120 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 320 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 512 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 320 3 1 9375.0
2019 Q3 480 7 1 14583.3
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 240 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 330 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 480 4 2 8333.3
2016 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 200 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 448 5 3 11160.7
2015 Q2 0 0 0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 0 0 0
2014 Q3 0 0 0
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 420 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 686 1 0 1457.7
2013 Q2 881 12 2 13620.9
2013 Q1 935 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 991 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 986 37 12 37525.4
2012 Q2 160 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,400 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 360 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 1,753 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,060 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 0 0 0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 976 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,998 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,544 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 1,217 1 1 821.7
2005 Q3 2,016 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,713 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 1,168 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,932 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,475 2 0 1355.9
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 1,388 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,808 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,248 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 1,248 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,576 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 2,058 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 1,541 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,855 1 1 350.3
2001 Q2 2,590 2 0 772.2
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 2,321 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 3,251 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,700 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

21 on file

2001 · 1 incident

2000 · 1 incident

September 9, 2000 VT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Vermont Verde Antique International Inc · Rubbed or abraded

EMPLOYEE NOTICED RIGHT KNEE "LOCKING UP." DOCTORDETERMINED CALCIUM DEPOSIT ON KNEE; OPERATED TO REMOVE IT. HAD OPERATION 9/14/00 WHEN HE STARTEDMISSING TIME PER DOCTOR'S ORDERS (NO WORKING FOR 3-4 WEEKS). SHOULD RETURN 10/9/00.

1997 · 1 incident

April 30, 1997 VT · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec OTHER
Vermont Verde Antique International Inc · Struck by flying object

EE NOTICED OBJECT/IRRITATION IN RIGHT EYE DURING LATE MORNING. EE NOT SURE WHEN OBJECT ENTERED EYE. EE REQUIRES GLASSES, WAS WEARING PRESCRIPTION SAFETY GLASSES THROUGHOUT HIS SHIFT.

1995 · 5 incidents

August 25, 1995 VT · Metal/Non-Metal beltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor rider HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Vermont Verde Antique International Inc · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING PICKUP RUBBLE WHEN A PIECE FELL AND LANDED ON HIS ARM CAUSING A DEEP CUT.

May 20, 1995 VT · Metal/Non-Metal HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Vermont Verde Antique International Inc · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING PULLING ROPES OFF BLOCK. HE PULLED THE PIN AND ROPE RELEASED QUICKLY CAUSINGHIS HAND TO GO UP AGAINST A SHARP PIECE OF ROCK WHICH RESULTED IN CUT ON BACK OF HAND.

April 21, 1995 VT · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner OTHER
Vermont Verde Antique International Inc · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS IN BOX HANGING FROM CRANE TRYING TO PULL A FIREHOSE UP ABOUT 5'. AS HE WAS PULLING ON HOSE EE GOT SHARP PAIN IN CHEST, GOT OUT OF BOX & WENT TO OFFICE.

1994 · 2 incidents

July 19, 1994 VT · Metal/Non-Metal wireman, communications man SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Vermont Verde Antique International Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE WAS WALKING OVER SAWTRACK AND WHEN HE STEPPED OFF HE WALKED IN SAM MUD CAUSING HIS LEFT FOOT TO ROLL OVER RESULTING IN TORN LIGAMENTS IN FOOT.

July 18, 1994 VT · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Vermont Verde Antique International Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE WAS ADDING TRACK ONTO SAW. TRACK WASNT LEVEL RESULTING IN EE HAVING TO LIFT ON TRACK RESULTING IN WRENCHED BACK.

1991 · 1 incident

1990 · 1 incident

1989 · 2 incidents

1988 · 1 incident

1987 · 5 incidents

August 17, 1987 VT · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator MACHINERY
Vermont Marble Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

AFTER HOOKING G6IDE XABLES TO WASTE BOX EMPLOYEE FAILED TO LEAVE AREA WHILE BOX WAS HOISTED-BOX PINNED HIS SHOULDER AGAINST A QUARRY BAR-CAUSING A BROKEN ARM,LACERATIONS AND A DISLOCATED SHOUL DER. 3

August 7, 1987 VT · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator MACHINERY
Vermont Marble Company · Struck by flying object

BLOWING DIRT FR2M CUT. DIR T LODGED IN HIS EYE (MINER).

May 8, 1987 VT · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Vermont Marble Company · Struck by rolling or sliding object

STANDING ON BLA7K OF MARBLE WHILE SPLITTING WAS TAKING PLACE. WHEN SPLITT OCCURRED FELL OFF AND PIECE ROLLED ON FOOT.

1986 · 1 incident

September 5, 1986 VT · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Vermont Marble Company · Fall onto or against objects

WHILE REMOVING 8RILL GUIDE EMPLOYEE STUMBLED CAUSING A FALL INTO THE DRILL MAST LACERATED ELBOW