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SCRANTON MATERIALS LLC: 76 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3608470

SCRANTON MATERIALS LLC has $15K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 8 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
19
Years on record
1998–2017
Latest incident
Mar 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
76
citations
21
significant & substantial
$15,384
proposed penalties
$13,272
paid to date
86% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,112 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See SCRANTON MATERIALS LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
59
inspections on record
837
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: 837 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

SCRANTON MATERIALS LLC has $15K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 8 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.
$15K
proposed penalties
$13K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
75 assessments are final orders; 8 contested dockets.
Of $8K in penalties contested before the Commission, $6K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-14.
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.
28.0%
significant & substantial
14.7%
high negligence or reckless
29.3%
reasonably likely or greater
48.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 30.7% low, 54.7% moderate, 14.7% 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.
9 citations taken to the federal commission · 12% of citations on record
  • Settled 9 · 100%
57%
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 7 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
18%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2K proposed, $2K 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 2025-02-23.
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
PENN20020119M Settlement Zielinski 2002 $3K → $1K
PENN20020109M Settlement Zielinski 2002 $2K → $2K
PENN 2015-0257 Settlement Harner 2016 $995 → $698
PENN 2017-0018 Settlement Bulluck 2017 $438 → $406
PENN 2014-0873 Settlement Bulluck 2014 $250 → $212
PENN20020184M Settlement Zielinski 2002 $173 → $173
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: 2025-10-16
50%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
30
samples
18
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz189 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg10
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (30)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2022-01-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 0.23 1.04 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2022-01-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 0.23 1.09 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2013-03-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.78 0.18 4.33 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2013-03-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.96 0.26 3.69 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-08-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.36 0.17 2.12 Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-09-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.19 1.05 Laborer, Bullgang
2003-04-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.48 0.23 2.09 Laborer, Bullgang
2003-04-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.17 1.00 Laborer, Bullgang
2003-04-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.35 1.34 1.01 Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-10-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2025-10-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.22 0.77 Forklift Operator
2025-10-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Forklift Operator
2024-02-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2024-02-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2024-02-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.28 0.54 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2023-04-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2023-04-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.33 0.48 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2022-01-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Shovel Operator
2019-01-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.3 0.57 Forklift Operator
2019-01-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.26 0.65 Laborer, Bullgang
2019-01-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.25 0.52 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2013-04-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.29 0.76 0.38 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2013-04-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 1.93 0.12 Laborer, Bullgang
2006-05-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-08-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2005-08-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Scale Man
2005-08-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-08-10 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.12 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-04-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.3 0.70 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-04-30 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.34 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.

SCRANTON MATERIALS LLC recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2022.

Injury rate, 2022
ⓘ 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
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.78 and the all-US-mining average was 2.12 cases per 100 workers.
In Pennsylvania, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.45 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
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2017 * 6.68 6.68 0.000
2016 * 6.23 6.23 0.000
2015 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2013 * 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. Scranton Materials Inc 1994 to 2012
  2. Scranton Materials LLC 2012 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 10
2025 10
2024 10
2023 10
2022 11
2021 10
2020 11
2019 12
2018 14
2017 16
2016 15
2015 13
2014 13
2013 18
2012 15
2011 11
2010 16
2009 18
2008 20
2007 21
2006 23
2005 26
2004 23
2003 19
2002 19
2001 20
2000 17
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

SCRANTON MATERIALS LLC sits in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, 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.
Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania · Population 215,834
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$64,691
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 4,243 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 3,799 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 5,007 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 4,913 2 1 407.1
2025 Q2 4,308 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 4,032 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4,672 2 0 428.1
2024 Q3 4,978 2 0 401.8
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 5,153 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 4,144 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 4,655 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 4,125 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 5,098 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 4,299 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 5,193 3 1 577.7
2022 Q3 5,471 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 5,719 2 1 349.7
2022 Q1 4,637 1 0 215.7
2021 Q4 5,705 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 5,957 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 4,724 1 0 211.7
2021 Q1 3,838 1 0 260.6
2020 Q4 4,717 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 5,457 2 0 366.5
2020 Q2 4,599 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 4,317 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 5,636 1 0 177.4
2019 Q3 6,072 2 0 329.4
2019 Q2 6,276 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 4,444 1 0 225.0
2018 Q4 5,964 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 6,753 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 6,789 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 5,865 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 7,651 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 8,333 1 0 120.0
2017 Q2 7,168 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 6,780 2 0 295.0
2016 Q4 8,001 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 7,506 4 2 532.9
2016 Q2 8,485 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 8,123 1 0 123.1
2015 Q4 7,380 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 9,581 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 3,890 3 2 771.2
2015 Q1 1,635 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 3,990 3 1 751.9
2014 Q3 4,440 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,000 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 4,809 5 2 1039.7
2013 Q4 8,559 2 0 233.7
2013 Q3 10,642 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 9,029 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 7,695 2 2 259.9
2012 Q4 9,171 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 10,446 2 0 191.5
2012 Q2 10,993 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 398 6 0 15075.4
2011 Q4 612 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,752 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 5,850 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 4,898 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 4,593 1 0 217.7
2010 Q3 4,261 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 3,412 2 1 586.2
2010 Q1 1,897 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 3,698 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 5,285 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 8,755 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,106 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 4,365 2 0 458.2
2008 Q3 5,592 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 5,175 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 3,458 4 2 1156.7
2007 Q4 4,735 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 5,371 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,985 1 0 200.6
2007 Q1 3,271 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 4,824 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 6,043 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 8,230 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 5,390 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 7,766 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 9,004 3 0 333.2
2005 Q2 8,344 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 5,757 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 6,638 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 7,461 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 6,944 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 5,305 1 0 188.5
2003 Q4 6,232 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 5,559 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 5,721 1 1 174.8
2003 Q1 4,660 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 5,209 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 5,912 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 5,071 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 4,186 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 4,897 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 5,072 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 5,427 6 4 1105.6
2001 Q1 3,159 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 5,703 1 0 175.3
2000 Q3 5,253 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 5,233 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 3,932 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

19 on file

2017 · 1 incident

March 20, 2017 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Scranton Materials LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was positioning a 90 pound timber in preparation for a cube that was to be unloaded and set onto the timber. As the employee was picking up one end of the timber to put it into place, employee felt a sharp pain in lower back.

2016 · 1 incident

September 23, 2016 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Scranton Materials LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee using a Vaclift to move stone from rollers to pallet. EE set stone on edge, on pallet. EE had stone tilted on the Vaclift, with intent to release from lift, & stand in place. Upon release, weight of stone was too great for employee to lift, and it dropped. This pinched left thumb between stone and pallet. EE suffered a laceration and broken bone on the tip of left thumb.

2012 · 2 incidents

July 20, 2012 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Scranton Materials LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

While drilling a hole in a guard, the drill bound-up twisting the miners right hand and wrist.

July 6, 2012 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Scranton Materials LLC · Struck against stationary object

The miner was removing uniformed rise material off the conveyor belt when he turned to his left to put the material on the pallet he struck his right forearm on the veneer gauge guard.

2011 · 2 incidents

October 3, 2011 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Scranton Materials Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Picking up a Rock strain back.

July 19, 2011 PA · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Scranton Materials Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee strained back when lifting/moving a rock.

2008 · 1 incident

May 1, 2008 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Scranton Materials Inc · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

Emp started feeling sharp pain in his right wrist while using sledgehammer.

2007 · 4 incidents

November 16, 2007 PA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Scranton Materials Inc · Fall from machine

Employee slipped off loader steps injuring right wrist

October 1, 2007 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Scranton Materials Inc · Struck by falling object

While emp was carrying stone a piece broke in half and fell onto foot.

August 8, 2007 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Scranton Materials Inc · Struck by falling object

Employee had large stone fall onto knee while stacking stone bruising knee.

March 26, 2007 PA · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Scranton Materials Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was lifting blue treads when he pulled/strained something in his lower back

2006 · 1 incident

August 1, 2006 PA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer STRIKING OR BUMPING
Scranton Materials Inc · Struck against stationary object

Employee was walking to trailer and bumped forearm on guarding material.

2004 · 1 incident

March 1, 2004 PA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Scranton Materials Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CLEANING UP AROUND PICKING MACHINE, PINCHED FINGER BETWEEN ROCKS.

2003 · 1 incident

November 6, 2003 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Scranton Materials Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

TWISTED LEFT KNEE WHILE STACKING STONE.

2002 · 1 incident

August 27, 2002 PA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner MACHINERY
Scranton Materials Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS WELDING ON CRUSHER, AFTER FINISHING WELDING, EE USED HAND GRINDER TO FINISH WELD JOINTS. GRINDING DIRT GOT INTO HIS RT. EYE.

2001 · 3 incidents

August 15, 2001 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Scranton Materials Inc · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING ROCK ON WOODEN PALLET. ROCK SLIPPED OUT OF HAND, FELL ON RIGHT FOOT.

July 25, 2001 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Scranton Materials Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ACCROSS LOT. TRIPPED OVER ROCK, FELL ON LEFT SHOULDER.

1998 · 1 incident

May 29, 1998 PA · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey POWERED HAULAGE
Scranton Materials Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE STATES: THE VEHICLE WAS PARKED WITH EMERGENCY BRAKE ENGAGED AND IN GEAR. EE TRIED TO CHOKE THE WHEELS, TRUCK STARTED ROLLING DRAGGING EE WITH TRUCK.