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SHELDON SLATE PRODUCTS QRY & MILL #2: 57 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by John M Tatko Jr
Poultney, Rutland County, VT  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4300033

SHELDON SLATE PRODUCTS QRY & MILL #2 has $6K 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
9
Years on record
1984–2026
Latest incident
Apr 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
57
citations
9
significant & substantial
$5,659
proposed penalties
$5,659
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See SHELDON SLATE PRODUCTS CO., INC.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
59
inspections on record
910
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: 910 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

SHELDON SLATE PRODUCTS QRY & MILL #2 has $6K 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
56 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-07.
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.
15.8%
significant & substantial
1.8%
high negligence or reckless
15.8%
reasonably likely or greater
38.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 31.6% low, 66.7% moderate, 1.8% 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: 2025-04-30
11%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
27
samples
19
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz202 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg6
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (27)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2014-12-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.21 0.63 1.92 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2004-04-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.54 0.54 1.00 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2025-04-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-04-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.42 0.56 0.75 Laborer, Bullgang
2025-04-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cutting Mach Operator
2022-11-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2022-11-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.64 0.93 0.69 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2022-11-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2018-03-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 0.58 0.45 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2017-03-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.33 0.39 Utility Man
2017-03-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.29 0.72 0.40 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2015-02-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.95 0.18 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2011-03-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2011-03-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.6 0.25 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2009-02-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.5 0.67 0.75 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2009-02-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.37 0.66 0.56 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2009-02-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 0.57 0.40 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-12-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.59 0.68 0.87 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2004-12-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.27 1.15 0.23 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2004-04-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.35 0.69 0.51 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2004-04-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2004-04-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2003-02-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.4 0.47 0.85 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2003-02-27 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.29 Truck Driver
2003-02-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.57 0.72 0.79 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2003-02-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.52 0.75 0.69 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2003-02-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.39 0.6 0.65 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.

SHELDON SLATE PRODUCTS QRY & MILL #2 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2000.

Injury rate, 2000
ⓘ 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 4.77 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
In Vermont, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 5.32 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.
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. Tatko Brothers Slate Company Inc 1950 to 2013
  2. Sheldon Slate Products Co., Inc. 2013 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 6
2025 6
2024 6
2023 6
2022 6
2021 5
2020 5
2019 6
2018 6
2017 6
2016 6
2015 5
2014 5
2013 5
2012 2
2011 4
2010 4
2009 5
2008 6
2007 6
2006 6
2005 6
2004 9
2003 9
2002 9
2001 9
2000 9
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

SHELDON SLATE PRODUCTS QRY & MILL #2 sits in Rutland County, Vermont, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Rutland County, Vermont · Population 60,484
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$64,778
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 2,893 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 2,942 1 0 339.9
2025 Q4 2,514 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,463 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,543 1 1 393.2
2025 Q1 3,027 1 0 330.4
2024 Q4 3,006 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,896 0 0 0.0
Show 97 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 3,067 1 0 326.1
2024 Q1 3,180 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 2,968 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,599 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,801 1 0 357.0
2023 Q1 2,532 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,932 1 1 341.1
2022 Q3 2,551 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,567 2 1 779.1
2022 Q1 2,354 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,449 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,509 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,351 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,232 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,228 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,411 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,694 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,516 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,530 1 0 395.3
2019 Q3 2,728 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,849 1 0 351.0
2019 Q1 2,848 1 0 351.1
2018 Q4 2,530 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,310 1 0 432.9
2018 Q2 2,687 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3,061 1 0 326.7
2017 Q4 1,135 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,090 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,053 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,433 2 0 1395.7
2016 Q4 1,554 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,599 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,200 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 2,343 3 2 1280.4
2015 Q4 2,731 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,292 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,509 1 0 398.6
2015 Q1 2,037 1 1 490.9
2014 Q4 2,705 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,303 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2,477 1 0 403.7
2014 Q1 2,517 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,560 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,774 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,965 1 0 508.9
2012 Q4 1,012 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 966 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 164 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 152 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,888 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 2,072 1 0 482.6
2011 Q2 2,062 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1,731 1 0 577.7
2010 Q4 2,190 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,475 2 0 1355.9
2010 Q2 1,525 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,172 1 0 853.2
2009 Q4 1,751 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 2,103 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 2,561 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,530 2 1 790.5
2008 Q4 2,439 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 2,511 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 3,000 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 3,100 1 0 322.6
2007 Q4 2,802 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,744 2 0 728.9
2007 Q2 2,594 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 2,617 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,054 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 2,491 3 0 1204.3
2006 Q2 2,904 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 3,101 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 3,087 2 0 647.9
2005 Q3 3,163 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 2,810 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 2,439 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 3,260 3 0 920.2
2004 Q3 3,153 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 4,765 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 4,854 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 3,967 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 3,849 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 4,381 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 4,456 4 1 897.7
2002 Q4 4,246 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 4,513 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 3,947 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 4,057 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 4,169 5 0 1199.3
2001 Q3 4,130 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 5,061 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 4,727 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 5,227 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 5,190 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 5,226 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 5,215 7 1 1342.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

9 on file

2026 · 1 incident

April 13, 2026 VT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Sheldon Slate Products Co., Inc. · Struck by falling object

EE was placing cutting stock on a pallet with the hoist & clamp: EE placed the pc. of stock on the pallet but misjudged where the pallet was, and dropped the pc on EE's finger, causing a fracture & laceration to EE's right hand ring finger.

2025 · 1 incident

July 28, 2025 VT · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Sheldon Slate Products Co., Inc. · Struck by falling object

Employee was sawing a pc of slate, EE was carrying a scrap pc to the rubbish bin when it broke & part of it landed in EE's L foot.

2023 · 1 incident

August 8, 2023 VT · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Sheldon Slate Products Co., Inc. · Struck by falling object

Employee was moving a piece of slate to the rubbish bin; a piece broke off and fell onto left foot, causing a fracture.

2019 · 1 incident

February 4, 2019 VT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Sheldon Slate Products Co., Inc. · Struck by falling object

Employee was using a hoist when a rock fell off a pallet on top of left foot.

2015 · 1 incident

January 15, 2015 VT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Sheldon Slate Products Co., Inc. · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was working in the yard - he walked around a pallet of slate, slipped on snow covered ice fell.

2001 · 1 incident

August 2, 2001 VT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Tatko Brothers Slate Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A QUARRY DUMP TRUCK FROM ONE END OF THE PIT TOT HE OTHER END TO DUMP A LOAD OF SLATE WASTE. HE TURNED THE TRUCK AROUND AND BACKED UP TO DUMP THE LOAD. THE TRUCK WENT OVER THE BANK AND LANDED ON ITS PASSENGER SIDE. EE GOT OUT OF THE TRUCK, ANOTHER EE SAW THE TRUCK AND GOT OUR EXCAVATOR OPERATOR TO ASSIST.

1991 · 2 incidents

1984 · 1 incident

March 28, 1984 VT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Tatko Brothers Slate Company Inc · Unclassified, insufficient data

A QUARRIED BLOCK OF SLATE HAULED TO SURFACE YARD HAD A DRILL HOLE WITHIN CONTAINING SMALL AMOUNT OF BLACK GRANULAR BLASTING POWDER. UNKNOWN ACTION BY EMPLOYEE CAUSED POWDER TO BURN IN MONTNTAR Y FLARE UP TO FACE - NO WITNESS TO ACCIDENT