Mining Incidents

Schlichting State Street Quarry: 44 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Bruce E Schlichting
Rockford, Boone County, IL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1100247

Schlichting State Street Quarry has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
12
Years on record
1986–2000
Latest incident
Sep 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
44
citations
2
significant & substantial
$3,199
proposed penalties
$3,199
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
25
inspections on record
364
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: 364 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Schlichting State Street Quarry has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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
44 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-08-31.
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.
4.5%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
4.5%
reasonably likely or greater
65.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 18.2% low, 81.8% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2003-08-19, 23 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
3
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2003-08-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.5 2.7 0.19 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-08-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-08-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 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.

Schlichting State Street Quarry recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2007.

Injury rate, 2007
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 3.30 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 cases per 100 workers.
In Illinois, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.14 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
2007 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 * 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. Zaugg'S Bedrock Quarries 1979 to 1981
  2. Schlichting & Sons Excavating, Inc. 1981 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2010 1
2009 8
2008 7
2007 11
2006 11
2005 11
2004 10
2003 10
2002 10
2001 9
2000 10
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Schlichting State Street Quarry sits in Boone County, Illinois, 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.
Boone County, Illinois · Population 53,316
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$81,638
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
2010 Q2 412 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 100 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 3,207 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 4,285 1 1 233.4
2009 Q2 4,578 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,459 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 3,756 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 4,244 0 0 0.0
Show 34 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q2 5,410 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,952 2 0 1024.6
2007 Q4 4,749 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 4,962 8 0 1612.3
2007 Q2 5,915 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 4,503 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 5,402 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,975 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,847 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 3,523 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,720 5 0 2907.0
2005 Q3 1,720 7 0 4069.8
2005 Q2 1,767 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 4,361 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 4,884 3 1 614.3
2004 Q3 1,635 1 0 611.6
2004 Q2 5,703 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,785 2 0 1120.4
2003 Q4 4,955 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 6,401 2 0 312.5
2003 Q2 5,343 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 4,461 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 4,930 5 0 1014.2
2002 Q3 6,543 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 5,092 2 0 392.8
2002 Q1 3,506 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 5,473 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 5,772 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,754 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 2,543 4 0 1572.9
2000 Q4 4,688 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 5,163 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 5,504 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 3,534 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

12 on file

2000 · 1 incident

1996 · 1 incident

November 1, 1996 IL · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Schlichting & Sons Excavating, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

STRAINED NECK MUSCLES WHILE SHOVELING & CLEANINGUP UNDER CONVEYOR AND CRUSHER WHEN ROCK HIT HARDHAT

1995 · 2 incidents

August 18, 1995 IL · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Schlichting & Sons Excavating, Inc. · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

GUARD WAS PLACED OUT OF IT'S PROTECTIVE POSITION TO GET CLOSER TO BELT.

1993 · 3 incidents

February 4, 1993 IL · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Schlichting & Sons Excavating, Inc. · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CLEANING ICE FROM CONVEYOR WITH SHOVEL. SHOVEL BROKE ICE AND CONVEYOR PULLED IT AND MY HAND IN. SKIN WAS TORN LOOSE FROM TWO FINGERS OF HAND.

January 18, 1993 IL · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Schlichting & Sons Excavating, Inc. · Flash burns (welding)

WELDING WHILE LIFTING WELDING HELMET UP DOWN CAUGHT A FLASH BURN.

1992 · 3 incidents

September 14, 1992 IL · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Schlichting & Sons Excavating, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

STARTED GREASING MACHINE A@6:30 & HAD A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK STARTED WORKING & PAIN INCREASED AROUND 8:00AM HAD TO STOP WORKING BECAUSE OF PAIN WENT HOME @10:00AM

1991 · 1 incident

April 2, 1991 IL · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Schlichting & Sons Excavating, Inc. · Fall onto or against objects

LOADING CRUSHER AT QUARRY-EQUIPMENT BOUNCING SEAT BROKE-TUMBLED BACKWARD.WE WERE NO INFROMED OF THIS ACCIDENT UNTIL 06-91 WHEN INJURED DECIDED TO HAVE IT CHECKED BY A DOCTOR.DID NOT MISS ANY W ORK UNTIL 06-20-91.

1986 · 1 incident

October 13, 1986 IL · Metal/Non-Metal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management POWERED HAULAGE
Schlichting & Sons Excavating, Inc. · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE REPLAC9D NEW ELECTRIC MOTOR ON STONE CONVEYOR. SHUT DOWN AND REARRANGED WIRING. EMPLOYEE TOLD 2ND EMPLOYEE TO GO TO LOWER LEVEL AND BE READY TO TURN ON ELECTRIC IN FEW MINUTES, 2ND EMPLOYEE MISUND9RSTOOD AND TURNED ON ELECTIC WHILE 1ST EMPLOYEE WAS ON CONVEYOR BELT, CAUSING HIM TO LOOSE BALANCE, JUMP FOR BUCKET PLATFORM, SLIPPING, CAUSING LEG TO BE CAUGHT IN V BELT AND C