Sears Limestone Quarry & Mill 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
14
Years on record
1984–2001
Latest incident
Sep 2001
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
45
citations
1
significant & substantial
$2,955
proposed penalties
$2,955
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
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: 542 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Sears Limestone Quarry & Mill 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
45 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-01-24.
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.
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: 2004-10-06, 21 years ago
10%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
11
samples
10
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz91 over
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (11)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2003-04-01
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.94
0.66
1.42
Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-10-06
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.22
0.97
0.23
Truck Driver
2004-10-06
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2004-10-06
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.28
1.12
0.25
Front-end Loader Operator
2004-10-06
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.19
10
0.02
Front-end Loader Operator
2004-10-06
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.73
1.1
0.66
Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-08-06
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.93
2.22
0.42
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2003-04-01
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.33
1.15
0.29
Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-04-01
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.5
1.31
0.38
Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-02-05
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.34
0.79
0.43
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2002-02-05
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.45
0.84
0.54
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
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.
Sears Limestone Quarry & Mill 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
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
2006
0.00
0.00
0.000
2005
0.00
0.00
0.000
2004 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2003 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2002 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2001 *
3.14
3.14
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2008
20
2007
30
2006
48
2005
46
2004
37
2003
29
2002
29
2001
27
2000
24
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Sears Limestone Quarry & Mill sits in DeKalb County, Illinois, 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.
DeKalb County, Illinois · Population 100,512
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$69,022
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
2008 Q1
6,770
5
0
738.6
2007 Q4
14,725
0
0
0.0
2007 Q3
17,730
2
0
112.8
2007 Q2
19,195
0
0
0.0
2007 Q1
14,623
0
0
0.0
2006 Q4
24,469
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
31,220
0
0
0.0
2006 Q2
26,903
3
0
111.5
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2006 Q1
20,423
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
25,052
3
0
119.8
2005 Q3
29,137
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
29,297
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
23,789
0
0
0.0
2004 Q4
23,738
6
0
252.8
2004 Q3
25,036
0
0
0.0
2004 Q2
22,821
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
15,453
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
18,605
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
19,529
2
0
102.4
2003 Q2
18,074
2
1
110.7
2003 Q1
9,887
2
0
202.3
2002 Q4
14,932
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
18,055
2
0
110.8
2002 Q2
16,884
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
13,479
7
0
519.3
2001 Q4
14,244
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
19,022
2
0
105.1
2001 Q2
16,769
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
13,687
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
12,387
1
0
80.7
2000 Q3
17,650
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
13,737
6
0
436.8
2000 Q1
9,294
2
0
215.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
14 on file
2001 · 1 incident
September 17, 2001IL · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSTEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
EE WAS WALKING ON BORKEN CONCRETE. HE STEPPED ON WIRE PROTRUDING FROM CONCRETE. THE WIRE WENT THRU BOOT CAUSING PUNCTURE IN LEFT FOOT. MEDICAL SERVICES, INCLUDING TETANUS SHOT WERE ADMINSTERED . EE INSTRUCTED TO STAY HOME UNTIL 9-19-01 WENT TO 2ND DR 9-19-01.
1999 · 3 incidents
November 16, 1999IL · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING UP TAILINGS WITH A SMALL LOADER, WHEN THE ENGINE OVERHEATED. EMPLOYEE OPENED RADIATOR CAP AND SUDDENLY IT SPRAYED EMPLOYEEON LEFT ARM, CAUSING BURNS.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING AN INSPECTION PLUG FROM A SAND PUMP. THE WATER WAS HOT AND STEAM & WATER SPRAYED THHE EMPLOYEE IN THE FACE, STOMACH AD ARMS. SOME AREAS ARE CLASSIFIED AS SECOND DEGREE BURNS.
1994 · 1 incident
April 25, 1994IL · Metal/Non-Metalblaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkeyHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING AND LOADING 50# BAGS OF ANFO. 2 HRS AFTER HE BEGAN LOADING HIS BACK BEGAN TO HURT AND TIGHTEN UP. THE PAIN BECAME WORSE THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND AFTER THE EMPLOYEE WENT HOME. A BACK SUPPORT BRACE WAS NOT WORN.
1992 · 2 incidents
October 15, 1992IL · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
WHILE PULLING OUT A PIECE OF IRON IN A HOPPER A ROCK SLID AND LANDED ONT HE IRON AND HIT HIS LEFT THUMB.
August 22, 1992IL · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Elmer Larson, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
TRUCK DRIVER PA9KED TRUCK AT HOPPER,SET BRAKES GOT OUT OF TRUCK TO TALK TO PLANT OPERATOR.RETURNING TO TRUCK SAW IT MOVING.TRIED TO GET INTO CAB AND SLIPPED.RIGHT ARM EXTENDED INTO PATH OF LEF T REAR WHEELS A3D WAS RUN OVER.TRUCK ROLLED INTO SOFT BERM AND STOPPED.
1985 · 2 incidents
December 5, 1985IL · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverHANDLING OF MATERIALS
December 12, 1984IL · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
WHILE TWO MEN WERE LIFTING SCREEN CLOTH TO VIBRATOR, VICTIM LOST BALANCE AND FELL SIX FEET TO GROUND. SCREEN CLOTH FELL TO GROUND AND AFTER VICTIM, STRIKING HIM ON RIGHT FOREARM, BREAKING BONE S IN RIGHT FOREARM.