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TAYLOR HILL QUARRY: 116 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

ATC Natural Stone · Surface
Controlled by Kevin Kann; Rodney Frey
Lanesboro, Susquehanna County, PA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3608817

TAYLOR HILL QUARRY has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
8
Years on record
2002–2010
Latest incident
Jul 2010
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
116
citations
32
significant & substantial
$18,622
proposed penalties
$15,575
paid to date
84% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,047 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
43
inspections on record
756
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: 756 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

TAYLOR HILL QUARRY has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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.
$19K
proposed penalties
$19K
current assessed
$16K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
107 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-04-17.
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.
29.4%
significant & substantial
19.3%
high negligence or reckless
29.4%
reasonably likely or greater
46.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 10.1% low, 70.6% moderate, 19.3% 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: 2025-05-20
25%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz41 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-03-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.68 0.44 1.55 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2025-05-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2025-03-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.32 0.48 0.67 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2025-03-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bobcat Operator
2025-03-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2006-04-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.74 0.23 Drill Operator, Rotary
2006-04-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.27 0.32 0.84 Drill Operator, Rotary
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.

TAYLOR HILL QUARRY recorded 0.00 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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below 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 Pennsylvania, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.05 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 * 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 * 13.84 13.84 0.000
2009 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2007 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2006 * 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. Timothy M Smith 1999 to 2006
  2. B S Quarries Inc 2006 to 2024
  3. PA Bluestone Supply LLC 2024 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 0
2024 6
2015 0
2014 13
2013 21
2012 20
2011 20
2010 18
2009 18
2008 13
2007 28
2006 31
2005 24
2004 17
2003 11
2002 9
2001 5
2000 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

TAYLOR HILL QUARRY sits in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 3.2% 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.
Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania · Population 38,349
3.2%
Mining share of county employment
$66,930
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 0 0 0
2024 Q2 2,880 15 2 5208.3
2015 Q1 0 1 0
2014 Q4 0 0 0
2014 Q3 5,306 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 8,627 1 1 115.9
2014 Q1 9,495 3 2 316.0
2013 Q4 7,752 2 2 258.0
Show 52 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q3 8,420 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 8,523 1 0 117.3
2013 Q1 7,071 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 10,861 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 10,031 12 5 1196.3
2012 Q2 8,805 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 7,062 1 0 141.6
2011 Q4 8,397 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 8,776 5 3 569.7
2011 Q2 7,962 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 6,958 5 2 718.6
2010 Q4 8,655 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 9,192 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 8,813 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 2,243 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 9,527 13 8 1364.5
2009 Q3 10,562 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 11,148 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 4,467 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 5,144 4 0 777.6
2008 Q3 6,007 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,234 14 0 11345.2
2008 Q1 2,720 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 8,985 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 14,726 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 15,226 2 0 131.4
2007 Q1 14,004 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 14,660 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 13,494 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 14,593 1 0 68.5
2006 Q1 11,536 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 12,405 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 14,378 1 0 69.6
2005 Q2 12,726 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 7,130 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 10,328 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 10,784 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 10,029 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 5,343 11 0 2058.8
2003 Q4 6,164 1 0 162.2
2003 Q3 6,490 3 0 462.2
2003 Q2 4,972 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 2,947 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,500 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 5,250 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 5,850 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,240 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 0 0 0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 2,184 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 3,913 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 4,160 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

8 on file

2010 · 2 incidents

July 29, 2010 PA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator ELECTRICAL
B S Quarries Inc · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

While disconnecting the positive terminal on the battery, the wrench shorted across the ground causing the battery to explode.

July 3, 2010 PA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
B S Quarries Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

While prying a rock from the excavator track with a bar, the employee injured his left shoulder.

2008 · 1 incident

October 22, 2008 PA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
B S Quarries Inc · Struck against stationary object

Drill spiral burr cut the hand while cleaning steel away from fabrication

2005 · 2 incidents

November 1, 2005 PA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Timothy M Smith · Fall to the walkway or working surface

MINER TRIPPED & FELL ON MUDDY STONES. HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

April 13, 2005 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Timothy M Smith · Struck by falling object

EE WORKING ON IRREGULAR FLAG, PULLED PIECE FROM PILE LOST BALANCE STONE FELL ON LEFT FOOT WHEN EE FELL AND BROKE 2 BONES IN ANKLE

2004 · 1 incident

December 14, 2004 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Timothy M Smith · Fall to the walkway or working surface

WHILE CLIMBING THE LADDER TO THE HAUL TRUCK, EE SLIPPED & FELL TO THE GROUND.

2003 · 1 incident

June 23, 2003 PA · Metal/Non-Metal truck driver OTHER
Timothy M Smith · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

TRUCK DRIVER WENT INTO THE WOODS IN QUEST OF A SNAKE AND GOT BIT WHEN HE CAPTURED ONE.

2002 · 1 incident

September 17, 2002 PA · Metal/Non-Metal drill helper SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Timothy M Smith · Fall to the walkway or working surface

MINER STEPPED BACK AND SLIPPED OFF A PIECE OF ROCK AND FELL ON HIS TAIL BONE.