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: 796 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
SOUTH BETHLEHEM has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
66 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $634 in penalties contested before the Commission, $634 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-12.
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.
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.
1citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
Stood as issued
1 · 100%
100%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$634 proposed, $634 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2013-09-12.
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.
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: 2025-02-11
14%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
19
samples
14
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz112 over
Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Arsenic fumes1
Show the individual readings (31)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2021-06-23
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.71
0.58
1.22
Laborer, Bullgang
2019-11-14
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.51
0.51
1.00
Laborer, Bullgang
2025-02-11
Vanadium fumes
0
50
0.00
Welder, etc.
2025-02-11
Nickel fumes
0
1
0.00
Welder, etc.
2025-02-11
Molybdenum fumes
0
10
0.00
Welder, etc.
2025-02-11
Manganese fumes
0
5
0.00
Welder, etc.
2025-02-11
Magnesium oxide fumes
0
10
0.00
Welder, etc.
2025-02-11
Lead fumes
0
150
0.00
Welder, etc.
2025-02-11
Iron oxide fumes
0.06
10
0.01
Welder, etc.
2025-02-11
Copper fumes
0
100
0.00
Welder, etc.
2025-02-11
Cobalt fumes
0
100
0.00
Welder, etc.
2025-02-11
Chromium, insoluble
0
1
0.00
Welder, etc.
2025-02-11
Cadmium oxide fumes
0
100
0.00
Welder, etc.
2025-02-11
Zinc oxide fumes
0
5
0.00
Welder, etc.
2025-02-11
Beryllium fumes
0
2
0.00
Welder, etc.
2025-02-11
Arsenic fumes
0
500
0.00
Welder, etc.
2024-04-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.18
0.45
0.40
Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-04-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.23
0.64
0.36
Laborer, Bullgang
2022-07-13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.25
0.61
0.41
Laborer, Bullgang
2022-07-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2022-07-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2021-08-03
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.18
0.56
0.32
Laborer, Bullgang
2021-06-23
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.29
Front-end Loader Operator
2021-06-23
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.21
0.57
0.37
Crusher Oper/Worker
2021-06-23
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2019-11-14
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.58
0.62
0.94
Laborer, Bullgang
2015-06-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.26
1.42
0.18
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2015-06-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2013-07-16
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.49
10
0.05
Cleanup Man
2013-07-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.62
1.75
0.35
Cleanup Man
2013-07-16
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.79
10
0.08
Front-end Loader Operator
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.
SOUTH BETHLEHEM 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
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 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In New York, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.08 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
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018 *
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
2026
14
2025
20
2024
20
2023
23
2022
22
2021
19
2020
20
2019
23
2018
20
2017
20
2016
19
2015
16
2014
18
2013
18
2012
20
2011
7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
SOUTH BETHLEHEM sits in Albany County, New York, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Albany County, New York · Population 315,374
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$83,149
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
EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING CRACKED GRIZZLY BA AT RIP-RAP PLANT. THE BAR SLIPPED OUT OF THE CHAIN AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON THE LEFT ARM AND SHOULDER. EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN T O ALBNY MED FOR EVALUATION AN D RELEASED. NO TIME LOST ACCIDENT.
1994 · 1 incident
July 20, 1994NY · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE WAS ALLEGEDLY ASSISTING ANOTHER EE IN CARRYING A PANEL OF SCREEN CLOTH UP A WIDE LOW ANGLE STAIRWAY WHEN EE ALLEGES HE SLIPPED ON SOME MUDDY MATERIAL AND WRENCHED HIS BACK.
EE WAS WALKING ALONG EDGE OF SURGE PILE (-6") DIRECTING THE PLACEMENT OF A STACKER CONVEYOR. EE APPARENTLY WALKED ON AN ARE OF MATERIAL THAT HAD BRIDGE, HE BROKE THROUGHT THE BRIDGE AND SLID D OWN THE PILE, HITTING HIS HEAD AND NECK ON ROCK AS HE SLID.
September 24, 1993NY · Metal/Non-Metalwelder (shop)MACHINERY
EMPLOYEE WAS ADJUSTING THE JAN CRUSHER BY TURNING A TOGGLE BOLT. THE BOLT APPARENTLY FAILED RELEASING A SPRING THAT PUSHED OUT THE END PLATE WHICH HIT HIM ON THE LEFT CALF.
August 20, 1993NY · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EMPLOYEE ALLEDGEDLY WAS DIGGING STONE OUT OF THE OPENNINGS OF A SECONDARY CRUSHER (TELSMITH CONE) WHEN HE SLIPPED & FELL BETWEEN THE CRUSHER & THE HANDRAIL, LANDING AGAINST THE HANDRAIL.
EE ALLEGES THAT WHEN HE WALKED DOWN THE STEPS FROM THE SWITCH ROOM TO THE OUTDOORS HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE ON A LOOSE ROCK.
1990 · 3 incidents
September 19, 1990NY · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
WHILE UNLOADING CONVEYOR ROLLERS FROM BACK OF PICKUP TRUCK, ROLLER SLIPPED FROM EMPLOYEE'S HAND AND FELL ON HIS RIGHT FOOT, INJURING HIS RIGHT SMALL TOE.
September 10, 1990NY · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
WHILE CLIMBING DOWN THE LADDER OF A CAT 988B LOADER THE INJURED SLIPPED & FELL AND LANDED ON THE GROUND IN SUCH A MANNER THAT HE SPRAINED HIS RIGHT WRIST AND SUFFERED ABRASIONS ON THE TOP OF T HE HAND.
1989 · 11 incidents
December 1, 1989NY · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
November 29, 1989NY · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
STANDING ON EUCLID FENDER, WIPING OFF WINDSHIELD. SEVERE WINDS BLOWING AT THE TIME, BLEW EMPLOYEE OFF THE FENDER TO THE GROUND. CAUSING A BROKEN NOSE AND FRACTURED RIBS.
November 10, 1989NY · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
OPERATING DYCO MACHINE SO AS TO UNPLUG CRUSHER ONE OF THE HYDRALIC HOSES ON THE DYCO CONTROLS BURST SPLATTERING EMPL WITH OIL HE LURCHED BACK LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL ON HIS TAILBONE
September 21, 1989NY · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
CLEANING MUD OFF OF PRIMARY CONVEYOR ROLLER UNDER PRIMARY CRUSHER WITH A SCRAPER.ROLLER CAUGHT AGAINST SCRAPER,PULLED IT IN AND SLAMMED THUMB AGAINST GUARD.
August 3, 1989NY · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
SITTING IN CAB OF TRUCK BEING SHOWN HOW TO LOWER BOX.LEVER JUMPED FORWARD LETTING BOX DOWN QUICKLY.HEAD & NECK HIT BACK OF CAB WHILE SITTING ON PASSENGER SIDE.
March 9, 1989NY · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
December 28, 1987NY · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
LOADED EUCLID G2ING UP GRADE STALLED.EUC BEGAN ROLLING BACKWARD.UNABLE TO HOLD IT TURNED LEFT REAR INTO BANK.EUC TIPPED OVER ONTO RIGHT SIDE.
1986 · 3 incidents
August 22, 1986NY · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
LETTING HIMSELF3DOWN ONTO SCAFFOLD WHILE WORKING ON CRUSHER REPAIR. LANDED A LITTLE HARD ON RIGHT FOOT.
July 14, 1986NY · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EMPLOYEE WAS DUMPING LOAD OF STONE TO CREATE A BERM IN STONE PILE YARD HE WAS DIRECTED AS HE BACKED UP TRUCK BY ANOTHER PERSON HE STOPPED & A 4X4IN TIMBER WAS PLACED BEHIND REAR WHEELS EMPLOY EE HAD TRUCK IN REVERSE & SOMEHOW BACKED UP OVER TIMBER AND ROLLED TRUCK OVER
1983 · 1 incident
March 16, 1983NY · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
HE WAS NOTCHING A BOARD TO FIT THE BED OF A DUPMTRUCK WITH A CHAINSAW. NEAR THE END OF HIS CUT THE CHAINSAW HIT A KNOT AND KICKED BACK AT THE OPERATOR. RESULTING IN LACERATIONS TO THE CHIN AN D CHEST.