Mining Incidents

Silver Creek Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Arkansas City, KS, Cowley County, KS  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1401827

Silver Creek 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
1
Years on record
2024
Latest incident
May 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2022
14
citations
4
significant & substantial
$2,757
proposed penalties
$2,757
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2022
9
inspections on record
106
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: 106 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Silver Creek 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
14 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-02.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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 Q4 2,499 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,926 4 1 2076.8
2025 Q2 1,750 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,425 2 1 1403.5
2024 Q4 1,854 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,725 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,761 2 0 1135.7
2024 Q1 1,680 2 0 1190.5
Show 7 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,476 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,144 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,174 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,052 1 0 487.3
2022 Q4 2,014 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,941 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,330 3 2 2255.6
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2024 · 1 incident

May 17, 2024 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hy-Grade Aggregates, LLC · Struck against stationary object

Individual was shoveling debris from catwalk on VSI Plant and hit EE's hand against metal edge on equipment.

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