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Southern Aggregates: 98 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Southern Aggregates · Facility
Controlled by John W Justice IV
Staley, Randolph County, NC  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3101093

Southern Aggregates has $17K 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
16
Years on record
1983–2025
Latest incident
Jan 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
98
citations
35
significant & substantial
$16,647
proposed penalties
$16,647
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Southern Aggregates's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
75
inspections on record
928
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: 928 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Southern Aggregates has $17K 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.
$17K
proposed penalties
$17K
current assessed
$17K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
98 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-10-29.
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.
35.7%
significant & substantial
14.3%
high negligence or reckless
35.7%
reasonably likely or greater
46.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 1.0% low, 84.7% moderate, 14.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2026-03-26
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
61
samples
24
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz37
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg21
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (61)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-03-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 Bagging Operator
2026-03-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.54 1.3 0.42 Bagging Operator
2026-03-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.37 1.67 0.22 Bagging Operator
2026-03-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 Bagging Operator
2025-04-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.64 0.31 Bagging Operator
2025-04-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.35 1.11 0.32 Bagging Operator
2025-04-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bagging Operator
2025-04-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 Bagging Operator
2024-05-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 Forklift Operator
2024-05-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-05-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 Forklift Operator
2024-05-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 Bagging Operator
2024-05-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.93 0.18 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-03-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bagging Operator
2023-03-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.3 0.62 0.48 Forklift Operator
2023-03-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Forklift Operator
2023-03-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 Bagging Operator
2022-05-26 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.12 10 0.01 Bagging Operator
2022-05-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-05-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 Bagging Operator
2022-05-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bagging Operator
2022-05-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 Bagging Operator
2021-04-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bagging Operator
2021-04-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 Bagging Operator
2021-04-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 Bagging Operator
2021-04-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 0.58 0.45 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-01-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bagging Operator
2020-01-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bagging Operator
2020-01-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bagging Operator
2020-01-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-04-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-04-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bagging Operator
2019-04-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bagging Operator
2019-04-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bagging Operator
2018-06-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 Bagging Operator
2018-06-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 Bagging Operator
2018-06-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 Forklift Operator
2017-05-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 1.69 0.11 Bagging Operator
2017-05-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 0.49 0.24 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-05-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 1.04 0.12 Bagging Operator
2017-05-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.88 0.18 Supervisor, Co. Official
2017-05-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bagging Operator
2015-11-17 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.23 Bagging Operator
2015-11-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 1.69 0.13 Bagging Operator
2015-11-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 1.77 0.11 Forklift Operator
2014-10-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 1.56 0.16 Bagging Operator
2014-10-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-10-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 1.27 0.18 Bagging Operator
2014-04-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 0.56 0.50 Bagging Operator
2014-04-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-04-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.47 0.40 Supervisor, Co. Official
2014-04-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.43 0.49 Bagging Operator
2013-01-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2013-01-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-01-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bagging Operator
2013-01-30 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Bagging Operator
2012-07-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.52 2.43 0.21 Bagging Operator
2012-07-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.81 2.62 0.31 Bagging Operator
2007-10-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.92 2.42 0.38 Bagging Operator
2007-10-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.44 2.11 0.21 Bagging Operator
2007-10-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.45 2.4 0.19 Bagging 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.

Southern Aggregates recorded 8.83 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2015.

Injury rate, 2015
ⓘ 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.
8.83
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.26 and the all-US-mining average was 2.72 cases per 100 workers.
In North Carolina, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.48 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
2015 * 8.83 0.00 0.000
2014 * 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
2009 * 9.57 0.00 0.000
2003 * 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. Southern Stone Industries Inc 1950 to 1979
  2. Staley Rock Crushing Company Inc 1979 to 1980
  3. Southern Aggregates Inc 1980 to 1984
  4. Southern Aggregates 1984 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 9
2025 9
2024 9
2023 7
2022 7
2021 7
2020 7
2019 7
2018 7
2017 7
2016 7
2015 11
2014 10
2013 12
2012 13
2011 10
2010 10
2009 10
2008 9
2007 9
2006 8
2005 9
2004 9
2003 10
2002 11
2001 12
2000 12
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Southern Aggregates sits in Randolph County, North Carolina, 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.
Randolph County, North Carolina · Population 145,322
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$59,047
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 3,945 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 3,944 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 3,945 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,943 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,947 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,946 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,939 1 0 253.9
2024 Q3 3,943 0 0 0.0
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 3,812 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,349 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 3,221 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,221 2 0 620.9
2023 Q2 3,221 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,220 1 0 310.6
2022 Q4 3,220 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,220 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,220 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,348 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,339 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,381 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,481 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,768 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,019 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,932 1 0 341.1
2020 Q2 2,889 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,344 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,587 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,544 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,174 1 0 460.0
2019 Q1 2,060 1 0 485.4
2018 Q4 2,090 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,697 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,737 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 2,450 1 0 408.2
2017 Q4 2,847 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,680 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,615 1 0 382.4
2017 Q1 2,602 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,642 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,906 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,616 3 1 1146.8
2016 Q1 2,645 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 5,878 4 2 680.5
2015 Q3 6,162 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 5,375 1 0 186.0
2015 Q1 5,233 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 5,283 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 5,425 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 4,929 1 0 202.9
2014 Q1 4,809 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 5,399 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 6,394 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 6,649 2 1 300.8
2013 Q1 6,292 1 0 158.9
2012 Q4 6,363 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 6,831 1 0 146.4
2012 Q2 6,900 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 7,086 1 0 141.1
2011 Q4 5,573 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 5,505 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 5,368 1 0 186.3
2011 Q1 5,385 2 0 371.4
2010 Q4 5,447 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 5,413 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 5,040 8 4 1587.3
2010 Q1 5,076 10 9 1970.1
2009 Q4 5,391 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 4,863 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 5,370 1 0 186.2
2009 Q1 5,278 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 5,225 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 4,756 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 4,933 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 4,788 10 0 2088.6
2007 Q4 4,770 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 4,682 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,458 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 4,209 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 4,310 2 0 464.0
2006 Q3 4,686 4 2 853.6
2006 Q2 4,303 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 4,069 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 4,923 1 0 203.1
2005 Q3 4,780 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 5,030 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 4,523 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 5,096 1 0 196.2
2004 Q3 4,907 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 4,880 1 0 204.9
2004 Q1 4,826 1 0 207.2
2003 Q4 4,690 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 4,839 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 5,179 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 5,698 3 0 526.5
2002 Q4 5,716 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 5,313 1 0 188.2
2002 Q2 5,388 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 5,583 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 5,791 1 0 172.7
2001 Q3 5,888 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 5,396 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 5,443 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 5,803 9 4 1550.9
2000 Q3 6,327 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 2,522 18 12 7137.2
2000 Q1 5,834 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

16 on file

2025 · 1 incident

January 17, 2025 NC · Metal/Non-Metal bagging, package operator MACHINERY
Southern Aggregates · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

USER ERROR. FINGER CUT ON BAGGING MACHINE. NO DAMAGE TO THE EQUIPMENT.

2015 · 1 incident

June 19, 2015 NC · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Southern Aggregates · Struck against stationary object

EE was greasing the crush plant. He bent over and his hard hat came off. He picked it up and when he raised up he hit his head on a piece of angle iron. He cut a gash on top of his head. He received 6 staples.

2009 · 1 incident

November 13, 2009 NC · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator FIRE
Southern Aggregates · Contact with hot objects or substances

Employee was going to relight burner on dry plant #1. When he tried to relight it, the flame blew back on right side of face and neck.

2007 · 1 incident

August 21, 2007 NC · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Southern Aggregates · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Placing bag on bagger, bag slipped, thumb caught when bagger closed.

2005 · 1 incident

September 27, 2005 NC · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Southern Aggregates · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee states that he has worked as a bagging operator for seven yrs and as a result of this job, has suffered a repetitive motion/cumulative trauma injury to his right shoulder.

2004 · 2 incidents

July 23, 2004 NC · Metal/Non-Metal forklift operator POWERED HAULAGE
Southern Aggregates · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS GOING TO SECURE PALLET ON STRETCH WRAP MACHINE AND WAS PINNED TO THE WALL BY THE PALLET AND FORKLIFT.

1997 · 1 incident

November 14, 1997 NC · Metal/Non-Metal loader head operator, roscoe operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Southern Aggregates · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS WORKINGON A DRYER AND PULLING WIRES WITH A SCREWDRIVER. A WIRE BROKE AND THE SCREWDRIVER CAME BACK AND STRUCK HIM IN THE EYE.

1993 · 2 incidents

November 24, 1993 NC · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Southern Aggregates · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

DOOR WAS JAMMED ON A MATERIAL BIN. WHEN EE GOT DOOR OPEN IT MASHED HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

July 15, 1993 NC · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Southern Aggregates · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

TAKING OUT SCREEN ONT HE SHAKER FOR REPLACEMENT AND HURT HIS BACK. HE HAS NOT BEEN TO THE DR AS OF YET BUT HAS AN APPOINTMENT 7-21-93 AT 2:00 WITH DR. I WILL SEND YOU AN UPDATE ON HIS IMPAIR MENT AFTER THAT.

1990 · 1 incident

July 17, 1990 NC · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Southern Aggregates · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS MOTIONING FOR A CO WORKER TO DUMP A LOADER BUCKET OF MATERIAL INTO A BIN WHEN THE BUCKET CAUGHT HIS FINGER MASHING IT AGAINST A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON AT OUR 2 DRY PLANT.

1989 · 1 incident

March 20, 1989 NC · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS
Southern Aggregates · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

CONCERNING OUR PHONE CONVERSATION TODAY INJURED WAS PLACED ON A LOADER 3-20-89. HIS DAYS OF RESTRICTED ACTIVITY WERE FROM 3-20-89 UNTIL 9-28-89 WHEN THE WORKMAN'S COMPENSATION REPORT WAS COMP LETED. HE IS WORKING UNTIL THIS IS SETTLED. ALL THE INFORMATION ABOUT HIM IS ATTACHED.

1987 · 1 incident

November 3, 1987 NC · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS
Southern Aggregates · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

SILICOIS 3

1985 · 1 incident

October 8, 1985 NC · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Southern Aggregates · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON TERRAZZO PLANT WHEN A 10\ PIECE OF METAL TWISTED IN HIS HAND AND FELL ON HIS LOWER LEFT ARM. ARM WAS BRUISED.

1983 · 2 incidents

October 12, 1983 NC · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Southern Aggregates Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMP WAS TIGHTENING BOLTS ON CRUSHER DOWN AND WRENCH SLIPPED AND MASHED THUMB BETWEEN MOTOR AND CRUSHER STAND HOUSING RT THUMB WAS BROKEN ON T IP

October 5, 1983 NC · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Southern Aggregates Inc · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE HIT FINGER ON A PROTRUDING PIECE OF METAL ON CHUTE LINER. CUT MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND. REQUIRED FIVE STITCHES.