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Six Mile Quarry: 51 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Rome, Floyd County, GA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0901144

Six Mile Quarry has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $121 outstanding across 5 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
2003–2024
Latest incident
Oct 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
51
citations
6
significant & substantial
$7,929
proposed penalties
$7,154
paid to date
90% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $775 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Martin Marietta Materials, Inc's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
57
inspections on record
999
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: 999 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Six Mile Quarry has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $121 outstanding across 5 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$121
outstanding
51 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-01-15.
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.
11.8%
significant & substantial
2.0%
high negligence or reckless
15.7%
reasonably likely or greater
37.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 17.6% low, 80.4% moderate, 2.0% 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.
8 citations taken to the federal commission · 16% of citations on record
  • Settled 6 · 75%
  • Stood as issued 2 · 25%
0%
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 4 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
38%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2K proposed, $1K 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 2018-10-10.
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
SE 2008-505M Settlement Hodgdon 2008 $634 → $293
SE 2007-97M Dismissal Lesnick 2007 $367 → $297
SE 2007-49M Settlement Zielinski 2007 $354 → $254
SE 2007-139M Settlement Zielinski 2007 $263 → $120
SE 2019-0009 Settlement McCarthy 2019 $118 → $118
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: 2026-02-19
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
26
samples
7
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg17
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz5
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz3
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (26)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-02-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2026-02-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2026-02-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2026-02-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-08-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2022-08-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Lab Technician
2018-08-01 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Crusher Oper/Worker
2018-08-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2018-08-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-05-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2017-05-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-05-03 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 10 0.01 Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-05-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Scale Man
2011-05-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mechanic
2011-05-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2007-10-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-10-03 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 10 0.01 Utility Man
2007-10-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mechanic
2004-02-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 1.98 0.10 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-02-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2004-02-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.55 2.5 0.22 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-02-11 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 10 0.01 Backhoe Operator
2004-02-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.38 2.04 0.19 Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-07-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.4 2.12 0.19 Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-07-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-07-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
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.

Six Mile Quarry recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ 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 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Georgia, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.20 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
2025 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 8.42 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2013 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2012 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2011 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2010 * 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. Florida Rock Industries Inc 2001 to 2008
  2. Martin Marietta Materials, Inc 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 11
2025 10
2024 9
2023 9
2022 10
2021 12
2020 11
2019 10
2018 9
2017 9
2016 8
2015 9
2014 10
2013 11
2012 11
2011 11
2010 11
2009 10
2008 14
2007 15
2006 14
2005 12
2004 11
2003 14
2002 15
2001 15
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Six Mile Quarry sits in Floyd County, Georgia, 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.
Floyd County, Georgia · Population 98,985
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$62,540
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 5,238 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 5,086 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 5,010 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 4,589 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 6,049 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 4,823 1 0 207.3
2024 Q4 4,581 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 4,792 2 0 417.4
Show 91 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 4,617 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 4,423 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 5,420 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 4,820 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,890 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 4,175 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 4,170 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 5,204 2 0 384.3
2022 Q2 4,671 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 4,310 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 6,420 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 6,034 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 5,871 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 5,438 2 0 367.8
2020 Q4 6,055 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 5,645 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 5,789 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 6,028 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 5,875 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 5,664 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 5,609 3 1 534.9
2019 Q1 4,249 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 3,895 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 4,018 1 0 248.9
2018 Q2 3,712 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 4,369 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 4,105 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 4,875 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,833 2 1 521.8
2017 Q1 3,504 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 3,179 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,242 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 3,255 3 2 921.7
2016 Q1 3,509 1 0 285.0
2015 Q4 4,309 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 4,911 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 6,297 1 0 158.8
2015 Q1 3,316 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 5,267 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 6,486 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 4,689 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 3,066 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 5,599 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 6,468 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 5,818 1 0 171.9
2013 Q1 5,012 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 5,655 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 5,814 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 5,430 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 4,459 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 5,013 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 5,434 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 5,435 1 0 184.0
2011 Q1 4,438 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 5,313 2 0 376.4
2010 Q3 5,962 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 6,999 2 1 285.8
2010 Q1 7,010 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 5,508 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 6,158 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 6,282 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,974 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 5,949 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 7,203 2 0 277.7
2008 Q2 6,108 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 7,476 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 7,192 2 1 278.1
2007 Q3 7,485 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 8,568 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 8,277 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 9,140 5 0 547.0
2006 Q3 8,688 1 0 115.1
2006 Q2 8,454 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 8,423 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 7,814 1 0 128.0
2005 Q3 8,151 1 0 122.7
2005 Q2 7,215 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 6,238 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 6,823 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 7,843 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 8,946 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 4,511 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 8,475 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 8,973 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 14,525 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 7,632 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 8,543 3 0 351.2
2002 Q3 10,103 1 0 99.0
2002 Q2 10,382 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 8,480 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 8,480 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

10 on file

2024 · 1 incident

2021 · 1 incident

August 30, 2021 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee strained back while flipping hammers on horizontal impact crusher.

2015 · 1 incident

January 21, 2015 GA · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was walking to her personnel car to retrieve an item. As she was walking down the ramp she stepped off the matted area onto an area that had frost on it When she stepped on the frosted surface she lost her footing and ended up falling to the ground. During the fall she broke her leg in two places above ankle.

2008 · 1 incident

June 18, 2008 GA · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Clearing the shot, slipped on a rock, fell with left hand hitting the ground first.

2007 · 1 incident

March 27, 2007 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Florida Rock Industries Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was assisting in removing bearings from a screen. He took a 4 lb. hammer and struck the bearing race so the bearings would break loose, when a piece of metal entered his right eye. The employee was not wearing safety glasses.

2005 · 3 incidents

November 17, 2005 GA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Florida Rock Industries Inc · Struck by falling object

While cleaning out underneath the primary crusher with a water hose, a small rock was thrown from the crusher striking the employee on the right side back of his head.

March 14, 2005 GA · Metal/Non-Metal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Florida Rock Industries Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was checking rock shaker to see if it was locked down. The counterweight was stopped on the topside, and when the employee moved the sheave, the counterweight rolled to the bottom, catching his hand between the belt and the sheave. This caused lacerations to the right index and second fingers.

February 14, 2005 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech OTHER
Florida Rock Industries Inc · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

Employee notified us of accident on 2/21/05. Employee was standing in scale house; claims spider bite on the right inside leg.

2003 · 2 incidents

August 6, 2003 GA · Metal/Non-Metal
Florida Rock Industries Inc · -

EE WAS WALKING FROM PRIMARY CRUSHER HOUSE TO THE CONCRETE PAD BELOW THE PRIMARY CRUSHER. AS HE WAS WALKING, HE SLIPPED ON LOOSE GRAVEL FALLING ON HIS HIP.