Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County,
MO
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Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2302231
Strack Excavating LLC has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 9 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
9
Years on record
2005–2014
Latest incident
Jun 2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
58
citations
14
significant & substantial
$9,463
proposed penalties
$9,063
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $400 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: 614 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Strack Excavating LLC has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 9 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.
$9K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
57 assessments are final orders; 9 contested dockets.
Of $6K in penalties contested before the Commission, $2K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-10-13.
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.
15citations taken to the federal commission · 26% of citations on record
Settled
7 · 47%
Stood as issued
3 · 20%
Vacated or withdrawn
5 · 33%
56%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 9 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
72%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$6K proposed, $2K 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 2016-04-12.
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: 2011-10-04, 14 years ago
7%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
23
samples
15
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz81 over
Respirable dust, <.1mg8
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz7
Show the individual readings (23)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2011-10-04
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.4
0.79
1.77
Truck Driver
2011-10-04
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.22
1.59
0.14
Front-end Loader Operator
2011-08-30
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.22
1.03
0.21
Truck Driver
2011-08-30
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2011-08-30
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2009-06-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2009-06-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2009-06-17
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.23
1.77
0.13
Truck Driver
2007-04-25
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.17
10
0.02
Truck Driver
2007-04-25
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-10-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-10-20
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.26
10
0.03
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-10-20
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.19
10
0.02
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-10-20
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.41
2.66
0.15
Front-end Loader Operator
2004-12-15
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.5
10
0.05
Front-end Loader Operator
2004-12-15
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
1.43
10
0.14
Mechanic
2004-12-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2004-01-15
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.26
10
0.03
Front-end Loader Operator
2004-01-15
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.95
2.31
0.41
Supervisor, Co. Official
2004-01-15
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.71
1.39
0.51
Front-end Loader Operator
2003-01-09
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
1.45
10
0.15
Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-01-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.18
1.87
0.10
Laborer, Bullgang
2003-01-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
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.
Strack Excavating LLC recorded 18.13 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2014.
Injury rate, 2014
ⓘ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.
18.13
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.39 and the all-US-mining average was 2.93 cases per 100 workers.
In Missouri, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.80 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
2014 *
18.13
0.00
0.000
2011 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2010 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2009 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2008 *
17.05
17.05
0.000
2007 *
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
2015
16
2014
29
2013
14
2012
13
2011
12
2010
12
2009
12
2008
14
2007
13
2006
13
2005
8
2004
7
2003
6
2002
9
2001
6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Strack Excavating LLC sits in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Cape Girardeau County, Missouri · Population 82,180
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$68,912
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
EE was cleaning shot in pit when he heard a crackling noise and noticed rock falling from high wall. One of the rocks struck the ledge of wall and exploded, the exploded rock was no bigger than the inside of a hard hat. EE was about 30 foot away and began running to avoid being struck but one rock did hit him from behind on his back right side-mid/upper shoulder.
June 5, 2014MO · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee was very quickly heading towards the dumpster located near the shop right before quitting time. He was rapidly walking/jogging and while doing so his knee gave out. When his knee gave out he fell onto the rock and cut his knee open. He immediately turned pale and felt nauseas so he was taken to the emergency room where he received stitches.
Miner was assisting in the replacement of conveyor belt- was holding a guard while fellow miner removed it. He planned to let the guard drop straight down but it was angled in towards the conveyor and it pinched his hand between the guard and the conveyor. It smashed his pinky and lacerated (1-in.) his index finger on the right hand.
April 9, 2013MO · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Miner was switching out screens in Deister screen plant. He was moving a 50lb screen up a 12% incline when he stumbled, rushed to put the screen down so he wouldn't fall on it, and felt a "pinch" on the middle/rt. side of his back, although there was no pain at that time. Accident was reported to his supervisor 2 hrs later, after stabbing pain developed while in wheel loader.
2012 · 1 incident
December 21, 2012MO · Metal/Non-Metalledgeman/hand, quarry manMACHINERY
Miner at crusher asked excavator operator to bring breaker over, due to hung rock. Miner motioned with hands for operator to swing breaker to left. When operator did, miner reports that he was hit in chest with breaker. Miner was bent back over crusher handrail. No witnesses to breaker hitting miner, although the operator saw miner bent back over catwalk handrail.
Quarry truck was at the stockpile on the far east end of the property starting in forward motion, when the customer truck pulled in the lot on the opposite side of the stockpiles. Both trucks were traveling the same direction when the customer truck turned to the right, into the path of the truck. Quarry truck swerved to the right when customer truck hit back tire of truck.