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SUNRISE AGGREGATES LLC: 84 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by John L Warvel
Dansville, Ingham County, MI  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2003158

SUNRISE AGGREGATES LLC has $404K in proposed MSHA penalties and $395K outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2011–2025
Latest incident
Oct 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
84
citations
22
significant & substantial
$404,210
proposed penalties
$9,088
paid to date
2% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $395,122 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Sunrise Aggregates LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
41
inspections on record
594
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: 594 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

SUNRISE AGGREGATES LLC has $404K in proposed MSHA penalties and $395K 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.
$404K
proposed penalties
$404K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$395K
outstanding
79 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-12.
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.
26.5%
significant & substantial
12.0%
high negligence or reckless
26.5%
reasonably likely or greater
54.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 8.4% low, 79.5% moderate, 12.0% 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.
3 citations taken to the federal commission · 4% of citations on record
  • Still open 3 · 100%
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 2026-06-16.
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
LAKE 2026-0153 Decision pending
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: 2024-08-06
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (6)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-08-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2024-08-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2019-05-29 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.24 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-05-29 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.16 Washer Operator
2012-05-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.63 0.30 Front-end Loader Operator
2000-08-03 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.

SUNRISE AGGREGATES LLC recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2009.

Injury rate, 2009
ⓘ 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 2.82 and the all-US-mining average was 3.36 cases per 100 workers.
In Michigan, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.83 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
2009 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2007 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2006 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2005 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 * 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. Sunrise Aggregates LLC 2000 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 4
2025 4
2024 4
2023 4
2022 4
2021 4
2020 4
2019 5
2018 5
2017 5
2016 6
2015 6
2014 4
2013 3
2012 3
2011 3
2010 8
2009 8
2008 8
2007 16
2006 16
2005 14
2004 11
2003 9
2002 8
2001 5
2000 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

SUNRISE AGGREGATES LLC sits in Ingham County, Michigan, 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.
Ingham County, Michigan · Population 282,015
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$64,354
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 942 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 436 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 822 8 7 9732.4
2025 Q3 982 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,116 5 2 4480.3
2025 Q1 325 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 408 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 882 5 1 5668.9
Show 96 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,025 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 272 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 635 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,318 6 1 4552.4
2023 Q2 988 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 371 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 548 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 864 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,105 8 3 7239.8
2022 Q1 324 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 428 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,797 4 1 2225.9
2021 Q2 1,054 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 178 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 740 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,850 1 0 540.5
2020 Q2 1,628 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 532 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,000 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,622 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 3,751 8 2 2132.8
2019 Q1 748 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,760 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,470 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 3,997 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 635 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 572 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 3,121 2 0 640.8
2017 Q2 2,274 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,122 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,692 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,918 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 502 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,538 1 0 650.2
2015 Q3 2,413 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,259 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 245 1 0 4081.6
2014 Q4 331 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,364 2 0 1466.3
2014 Q2 2,070 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,130 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 940 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,146 4 1 3490.4
2013 Q2 1,110 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,090 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,040 2 0 1923.1
2012 Q3 1,070 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,470 6 1 4081.6
2012 Q1 820 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 985 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 998 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 882 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 250 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 5,104 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 678 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 613 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 5,670 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 4,628 3 1 648.2
2009 Q3 5,834 1 0 171.4
2009 Q2 6,208 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 3,611 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 5,238 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 5,342 2 0 374.4
2008 Q2 5,873 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 2,749 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 8,571 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 11,123 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 11,428 1 0 87.5
2007 Q1 9,523 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 11,406 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 11,966 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 13,609 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 9,240 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 9,992 5 0 500.4
2005 Q3 8,897 1 0 112.4
2005 Q2 9,311 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 6,357 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 6,224 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 7,336 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 8,189 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 4,381 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 5,242 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 7,077 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 7,006 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 4,887 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 6,655 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 7,324 4 0 546.1
2002 Q2 7,114 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 3,938 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 3,683 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 3,955 2 0 505.7
2001 Q2 3,985 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 1,758 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 385 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 460 1 1 2173.9
2000 Q2 165 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2025 · 1 incident

October 27, 2025 MI · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Sunrise Aggregates LLC · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Being trained in shut down for days end & accessing issues/repairs for next days start up - operator in process of shutting down power. New EE stepped onto conveyor beltline still running, other EE motioned EE to get down & new EE slipped and hit conveyor belt which carried EE down to pinch point trapping EE's foot.

2011 · 1 incident

January 21, 2011 MI · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Sunrise Aggregates LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was hoisting a steel beam with a chain. The chain slipped and the steel beam fell approximately 3 ft. Employee was on top of the beam when it fell and he slipped off when it hit the ground, breaking his leg. Owner took employee to the emergency room at the local hospital where he was admitted for treatment.