Small Mountain Quarry Inc-Salem Sand has $60 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
2000
Latest incident
Jan 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
1
citations
0
significant & substantial
$60
proposed penalties
$60
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: 134 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Small Mountain Quarry Inc-Salem Sand has $60 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.
$60
proposed penalties
$60
current assessed
$60
paid to date
$0
outstanding
1 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-09-08.
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 controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2008
1
2007
2
2006
2
2005
2
2004
1
2003
1
2002
1
2001
2
2000
3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Small Mountain Quarry Inc-Salem Sand sits in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania · Population 325,978
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$62,321
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 Q4
398
0
0
0.0
2008 Q3
909
0
0
0.0
2008 Q2
79
0
0
0.0
2008 Q1
0
0
0
2007 Q4
271
0
0
0.0
2007 Q3
1,073
0
0
0.0
2007 Q2
248
0
0
0.0
2007 Q1
520
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2006 Q4
480
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
1,462
0
0
0.0
2006 Q2
95
0
0
0.0
2006 Q1
37
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
170
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
1,259
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
1,166
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
10
0
0
0.0
2004 Q4
483
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
472
1
0
2118.6
2004 Q2
635
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
0
0
0
2003 Q4
185
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
771
0
0
0.0
2003 Q2
825
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
938
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
0
0
0
2002 Q3
1,574
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
1,161
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
21
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
884
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
1,515
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
1,881
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
0
0
0
2000 Q4
930
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
1,609
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
1,950
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
1,297
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2000 · 1 incident
January 14, 2000PA · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON