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Ruby Red Quarry: 33 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by M10 Inc
Merrill, WI, Marathon County, WI  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4700003

Ruby Red Quarry has $3K 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
34
Years on record
1983–2003
Latest incident
Jun 2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
33
citations
9
significant & substantial
$3,455
proposed penalties
$3,205
paid to date
93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $250 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Michels Road & Stone, Inc.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
27
inspections on record
282
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: 282 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Ruby Red Quarry has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
29 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $250 in penalties contested before the Commission, $0 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-08-31.
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
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
29.0%
reasonably likely or greater
51.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 12.9% low, 87.1% moderate, 0.0% 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 · 6% of citations on record
  • Stood as issued 2 · 100%
100%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$250 proposed, $0 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 2021-11-21.
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 2022-0036 Dismissal Lewis 2022 $250 → $0
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: 2004-06-22, 22 years ago
25%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
9
samples
8
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz62 over
  • Aluminum oxide fumes1
  • Arsenic fumes1
  • Beryllium fumes1
Show the individual readings (23)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2004-04-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.61 0.4 1.53 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2004-04-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.03 0.44 2.34 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2004-06-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.53 0.26 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2004-06-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2004-04-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 1.21 0.26 Jackhammer Operator
2004-04-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.5 1.46 0.34 Backhoe Operator
2004-04-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.32 1.15 0.28 Truck Driver
2002-07-10 Iron oxide fumes 0.05 10 0.01 Building Repair/Maint.
2002-07-10 Lead fumes 0 150 0.00 Building Repair/Maint.
2002-07-10 Magnesium oxide fumes 0 10 0.00 Building Repair/Maint.
2002-07-10 Manganese fumes 0.01 5 0.00 Building Repair/Maint.
2002-07-10 Aluminum oxide fumes 0 10 0.00 Building Repair/Maint.
2002-07-10 Nickel fumes 0 1 0.00 Building Repair/Maint.
2002-07-10 Titanium dioxide fumes 0 10 0.00 Building Repair/Maint.
2002-07-10 Vanadium fumes 0 50 0.00 Building Repair/Maint.
2002-07-10 Zinc oxide fumes 0 5 0.00 Building Repair/Maint.
2002-07-10 Molybdenum fumes 0 10 0.00 Building Repair/Maint.
2002-07-10 Arsenic fumes 0 500 0.00 Building Repair/Maint.
2002-07-10 Beryllium fumes 0 2 0.00 Building Repair/Maint.
2002-07-10 Cadmium oxide fumes 0 100 0.00 Building Repair/Maint.
2002-07-10 Chromium, insoluble 0 1 0.00 Building Repair/Maint.
2002-07-10 Cobalt fumes 0 100 0.00 Building Repair/Maint.
2002-07-10 Copper fumes 0 100 0.00 Building Repair/Maint.
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.

Ruby Red Quarry recorded 15.92 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2002.

Injury rate, 2002
ⓘ 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.
15.92
total case rate
15.92
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.17 and the all-US-mining average was 5.05 cases per 100 workers.
In Wisconsin, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 7.47 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
2002 * 15.92 15.92 0.000
2000 * 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. Anderson Brothers & Johnson Company 1950 to 1996
  2. Michels Corporation 1996 to 2021
  3. MICHELS ROAD & STONE, INC 2021 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2025 0
2024 0
2023 0
2022 0
2021 2
2007 6
2006 7
2005 8
2004 6
2003 10
2002 13
2001 14
2000 16
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Ruby Red Quarry sits in Marathon County, Wisconsin, 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.
Marathon County, Wisconsin · Population 138,067
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$76,185
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
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 0 0 0
Show 39 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 0 0 0
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 950 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,142 2 0 1751.3
2021 Q2 300 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,750 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,561 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 3,575 1 0 279.7
2007 Q1 2,374 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 2,837 2 1 705.0
2006 Q3 3,107 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 4,004 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 2,219 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 3,520 1 0 284.1
2005 Q3 3,428 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 3,923 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 3,242 4 2 1233.8
2004 Q4 3,383 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 3,109 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 3,598 12 4 3335.2
2004 Q1 2,158 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 4,387 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 5,281 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 3,960 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 3,379 1 0 295.9
2002 Q4 6,506 3 1 461.1
2002 Q3 7,122 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 6,110 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 5,389 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 7,170 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 7,724 6 0 776.8
2001 Q1 7,094 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 6,605 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 7,154 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 8,134 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 9,134 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

34 on file

2003 · 2 incidents

June 13, 2003 WI · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Michels Corporation · Struck by falling object

BLOCK BROKE MOVER AND FELL ONTO EE'S FOOT.

2002 · 2 incidents

1999 · 6 incidents

November 11, 1999 WI · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Michels Corporation · Fall from ladders

HE WAS PUTTING UP A PIECE OF WOOD TRIM WHEN THE LADDER SLIPPED: HE FELL APPROX. 2 FT ON RIGHT SIDE.

September 29, 1999 WI · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Michels Corporation · Struck by falling object

EE WAS TAKING A DRILL ROD OFF THE HORIZONTAL DRILL RIG THE END DROPPED ON HAND CUTTTING RIGHTMIDDLE FINGER

September 13, 1999 WI · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Michels Corporation · Struck by falling object

THEY WERE PICKING UP A COMPRESSOR WHEN THE LEVELING JACK FELL HITTING INJURED IN THE LEFT FOOT.

March 24, 1999 WI · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Michels Corporation · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE WAS SHOVELING SOME GRANITE CHIPS WHEN HE TWISTED HIS SHOULDER AND BACK.

January 13, 1999 WI · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Michels Corporation · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS PUTTING WEDGES IN A SAW BLOCK WHEN A CHIP BROKE CUTTING HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

1998 · 4 incidents

August 11, 1998 WI · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Michels Corporation · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WORKING ON A WIRE SAW, TAKE OUT A SHAFT SCRAPED LEFT SHIM.

July 30, 1998 WI · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Michels Corporation · Fall to the walkway or working surface

LOADING A BLOCK OF GLANITE ON A TRUCK SLIP ON GRAVEL, TWISTING RIGHT KNEE.

June 8, 1998 WI · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Michels Corporation · Struck by falling object

HE WAS BRACING UP A PIECE OF GRANITE FOR SAWING WHEN A PIECE OF BRACING (4" X 4" X39" BOARD) FELL ON HIS LEFT FOOT.

February 16, 1998 WI · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Michels Corporation · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A PAIL OF STEEL BITS INTO A TRUCK WHEN HE HURT HIS BACK.

1996 · 1 incident

November 6, 1996 WI · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Michels Corporation · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EE WAS TIGHTING A BOLT WTIH A WRENCH WHEN HE FELT A PULL IN HIS STOMACH.

1994 · 2 incidents

November 28, 1994 WI · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Anderson Brothers & Johnson Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING THE WHEELS IN THE SAW TOWER WHEN HE SLIPPED HURTING LOWER BACK. WAS TO RETURN TO WORK ON 12/1/94. THE MEDICINE THE DOCTOR GAVE HIM MADE HIM SICK. NOW HE WILL NOT RETURN T O WORK UNTIL APPROX 12/7/94.

1993 · 1 incident

1991 · 1 incident

1990 · 1 incident

July 9, 1990 WI · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman OTHER
Anderson Brothers & Johnson Company · Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

I.NAME WORKING IN QUARRY HOLE,TWISTED AROUND.THIS CAUSED KINK IN HIS BACK LATER FELT NUMBNESS IN LEFT LEG.FIRST DAY OFF 7-18-90.

1989 · 3 incidents

March 17, 1989 WI · Metal/Non-Metal OTHER
Anderson Brothers & Johnson Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE COMPANY HAS NO RECORDS OF ANY INJURES TO HIM ON 3-17-89. WE RECEIVED A DOCTORS REPORT ON 4-14-89 STATING HE INJURED HIS BACK ON 3-17-89 AND THAT IT WAS WORK RELATED INJURY. HE WAS OFF WO RK THE WEEK OF MARCH 20 TH.

1988 · 2 incidents

1987 · 3 incidents

September 17, 1987 WI · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Anderson Brothers & Johnson Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS CLEANING3UP AFTER A BLAST WHEN A GRANITE CHUNK SLID CRUSHING HIS FINGER.

February 2, 1987 WI · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Anderson Brothers & Johnson Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WAS CHIPPING ST2NE FORM A LARGE BLOCK USING A LARGE HAMMER & CHISEL WHEN HE HIT HIS INDEX FINGER ON T HE RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE STONE & HAMMER AHNDLE CUTTING IT VERY DEEPLY.

February 2, 1987 WI · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Anderson Brothers & Johnson Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

REPORT IS LATE 6ECAUSE THE INJURY WAS BEING CHECK OUT BY OUR WORKERS COMP. CARRIER TO SEE IF THIS WAS CONSIDERED WORK RELATIVE.

1986 · 3 incidents

October 30, 1986 WI · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Anderson Brothers & Johnson Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

SEPARATING TWO 3STONES WITH A STEEL BAR WHEN HIS SLIPPED OFF THE BAR, HIS HAND HIT HIM IN THE SAFETY GLASSES WHICH BRUISED HIS LEFT EYE.

1985 · 1 incident

1984 · 1 incident

1983 · 1 incident