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SOUTH COUNTY SAND & GRAVEL: 241 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Roland J Fiore
Peace Dale, Washington County, RI  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3700076

SOUTH COUNTY SAND & GRAVEL has $63K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 7 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2006–2023
Latest incident
Aug 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
241
citations
53
significant & substantial
$63,436
proposed penalties
$55,547
paid to date
88% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $7,889 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See SOUTH COUNTY SAND & GRAVEL's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
80
inspections on record
1,228
inspection hours
19.6
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.
241 citations across 1,228 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

SOUTH COUNTY SAND & GRAVEL has $63K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 7 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.
$63K
proposed penalties
$56K
current assessed
$56K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
234 assessments are final orders; 7 contested dockets.
Of $20K in penalties contested before the Commission, $12K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-26.
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.
22.1%
significant & substantial
5.8%
high negligence or reckless
22.9%
reasonably likely or greater
59.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 28.8% low, 65.4% moderate, 5.8% 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.
26 citations taken to the federal commission · 11% of citations on record
  • Settled 22 · 85%
  • Stood as issued 3 · 12%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 4%
86%
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 21 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
40%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$20K proposed, $12K 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 2025-06-29.
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
YORK 2023-0078 Default 2023 $4K → $4K
YORK 2007-107M Settlement Feldman 2008 $3K → $207
YORK 2025-0076 Settlement Paez 2025 $3K → $714
YORK 2010-13M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $3K → $2K
YORK 2014-48M Settlement Lesnick 2014 $3K → $2K
YORK 2016-0027 Settlement Moran 2016 $2K → $2K
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: 2025-04-16
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
13
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg10
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (13)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-04-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-04-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.63 0.21 Belt Cleaner
2025-04-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2021-05-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 Truck Driver
2021-05-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2016-05-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2016-05-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 1 0.12 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-11-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2007-11-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Shovel Operator
2007-11-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dragline Operator
2004-12-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2004-12-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-12-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
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 COUNTY SAND & GRAVEL 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 Rhode Island, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.53 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
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2016 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2015 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2013 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2007 * 9.98 9.98 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. South County Sand & Gravel 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 17
2025 17
2024 15
2023 15
2022 16
2021 14
2020 15
2019 15
2018 14
2017 14
2016 17
2015 14
2014 13
2013 14
2012 13
2011 11
2010 8
2009 9
2008 14
2007 16
2006 12
2005 14
2004 16
2003 16
2002 14
2001 13
2000 14
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

SOUTH COUNTY SAND & GRAVEL sits in Washington County, Rhode Island, 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.
Washington County, Rhode Island · Population 130,073
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$102,478
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 7,099 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 6,044 2 0 330.9
2025 Q4 6,726 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 7,429 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 7,429 5 1 673.0
2025 Q1 5,811 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4,768 2 1 419.5
2024 Q3 3,308 4 1 1209.2
Show 96 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 4,392 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 6,855 4 2 583.5
2023 Q4 4,404 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,988 5 1 1253.8
2023 Q2 5,212 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,538 8 2 2261.2
2022 Q4 4,363 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 4,456 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 5,298 8 0 1510.0
2022 Q1 3,783 4 0 1057.4
2021 Q4 5,117 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 5,249 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 4,035 2 0 495.7
2021 Q1 2,063 2 0 969.5
2020 Q4 6,747 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 6,916 4 2 578.4
2020 Q2 6,707 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 4,160 2 0 480.8
2019 Q4 5,433 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 5,931 11 1 1854.7
2019 Q2 5,737 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 4,588 12 1 2615.5
2018 Q4 5,343 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 5,723 5 0 873.7
2018 Q2 5,816 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3,265 3 1 918.8
2017 Q4 5,068 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 5,193 3 0 577.7
2017 Q2 5,056 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,894 6 0 2073.3
2016 Q4 5,134 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 6,718 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 6,486 6 1 925.1
2016 Q1 3,563 1 0 280.7
2015 Q4 7,144 1 0 140.0
2015 Q3 6,184 9 1 1455.4
2015 Q2 5,712 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,780 4 0 2247.2
2014 Q4 6,454 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 5,116 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 4,704 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,027 5 0 4868.5
2013 Q4 6,381 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 6,308 6 2 951.2
2013 Q2 6,031 9 4 1492.3
2013 Q1 1,932 1 0 517.6
2012 Q4 5,977 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 5,009 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 4,718 2 1 423.9
2012 Q1 2,110 2 0 947.9
2011 Q4 5,695 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 5,149 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 4,156 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 698 15 1 21490.0
2010 Q4 3,694 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 3,037 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 3,192 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 484 3 1 6198.3
2009 Q4 3,218 2 0 621.5
2009 Q3 4,265 24 19 5627.2
2009 Q2 3,871 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 466 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 3,678 2 0 543.8
2008 Q3 6,257 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 5,746 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 580 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 6,899 3 0 434.8
2007 Q3 6,656 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 5,680 6 0 1056.3
2007 Q1 813 2 0 2460.0
2006 Q4 7,029 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 6,325 7 0 1106.7
2006 Q2 6,608 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 735 6 0 8163.3
2005 Q4 7,677 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 8,173 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,591 1 0 628.5
2004 Q4 9,308 3 0 322.3
2004 Q3 8,254 1 0 121.2
2004 Q2 6,993 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 3,247 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 7,078 12 7 1695.4
2003 Q3 9,136 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 7,794 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 4,204 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 7,861 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 7,632 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 7,009 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 4,947 10 2 2021.4
2001 Q4 9,116 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 8,978 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 3,885 2 0 514.8
2000 Q4 7,627 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 8,589 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 8,018 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,574 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2023 · 1 incident

August 10, 2023 RI · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
South County Sand & Gravel · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was operating a DeWalt 4 1/2" grinder when it hit something and bounced back and caught EE's left index finger. ER report states "X-ray did not show any evidence of bone injury. EE did sustain a partial tendon laceration."

2011 · 1 incident

May 26, 2011 RI · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
South County Sand & Gravel · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was cleaning the tailgate area of his dump trailer when his second and third finger of his right hand got caught resulting in two fractured fingers.

2010 · 1 incident

November 1, 2010 RI · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
South County Sand & Gravel · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The tailgate of the truck did not latch. Driver lifted the tailgate by hand when it slipped and caught his finger. This resulted in an open fracture of the fourth finger on his left hand.

2007 · 1 incident

November 26, 2007 RI · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
South County Sand & Gravel · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee was hoeing out a chute on the crusher and hurt his back.

2006 · 2 incidents

May 16, 2006 RI · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
South County Sand & Gravel · Struck against a moving object

Employee suffered a back strain while running our 980G loader.

January 4, 2006 RI · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
South County Sand & Gravel · Contact with hot objects or substances

While the employee was powerwashing our front end loader, the nozzle got stuck inside his boot causing a burn to his left foot.