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Taylor Run: 1 recorded fatality Metal/Non-Metal

Mercewr, Lawrence County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3605128

Taylor Run has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
6
Years on record
1996–2007
Latest incident
Jul 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
49
citations
14
significant & substantial
$4,369
proposed penalties
$4,369
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Three Rivers Aggregates LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
35
inspections on record
495
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: 495 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 Run has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
49 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-10-08.
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.
28.6%
significant & substantial
2.0%
high negligence or reckless
28.6%
reasonably likely or greater
63.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 12.2% low, 85.7% moderate, 2.0% 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: 2008-01-24, 18 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
15
samples
13
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz11
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Arsenic fumes1
  • Beryllium fumes1
Show the individual readings (27)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2008-01-24 Zinc oxide fumes 0 5 0.00 Welder, etc.
2008-01-24 Arsenic fumes 0 500 0.00 Welder, etc.
2008-01-24 Beryllium fumes 0 2 0.00 Welder, etc.
2008-01-24 Cadmium oxide fumes 0 100 0.00 Welder, etc.
2008-01-24 Chromium, insoluble 0 1 0.00 Welder, etc.
2008-01-24 Cobalt fumes 0 100 0.00 Welder, etc.
2008-01-24 Copper fumes 0.34 100 0.00 Welder, etc.
2008-01-24 Iron oxide fumes 0.04 10 0.00 Welder, etc.
2008-01-24 Lead fumes 0 150 0.00 Welder, etc.
2008-01-24 Magnesium oxide fumes 0 10 0.00 Welder, etc.
2008-01-24 Manganese fumes 0.01 5 0.00 Welder, etc.
2008-01-24 Molybdenum fumes 0 10 0.00 Welder, etc.
2008-01-24 Nickel fumes 0 1 0.00 Welder, etc.
2008-01-24 Vanadium fumes 0 50 0.00 Welder, etc.
2005-05-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.41 1 0.41 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-05-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.45 0.29 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-05-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-05-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.42 0.52 0.81 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-05-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.66 0.24 Scale Man
2004-04-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.37 2.01 0.18 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-04-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.44 0.30 Bulldozer Operator
2004-04-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-04-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 1.11 0.22 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-04-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.28 0.71 Crusher Oper/Worker
2001-10-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.32 1.13 0.28 Laborer, Bullgang
2001-10-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.82 0.16 Front-end Loader Operator
2001-10-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.35 1.25 0.28 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.

Taylor Run recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2006.

Injury rate, 2006
ⓘ 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 3.41 and the all-US-mining average was 3.91 cases per 100 workers.
In Pennsylvania, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.29 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
2006 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2005 * 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. H W Cooper & Sons Inc 1950 to 1985
  2. H W Cooper & Sons Inc 1985 to 1999
  3. Atlantic States Materials of PA Inc 1999 to 2006
  4. Three Rivers Aggregates 2006 to 2010
  5. Three Rivers Aggregates LLC 2010 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2010 3
2009 6
2008 7
2007 7
2006 10
2005 9
2004 7
2003 7
2002 6
2001 6
2000 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Taylor Run sits in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Lawrence County, Pennsylvania · Population 85,423
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$60,779
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
2010 Q4 1,016 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 368 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 2,927 1 1 341.6
2009 Q3 2,645 3 1 1134.2
2009 Q2 2,162 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1,343 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 2,862 4 0 1397.6
2008 Q3 4,024 0 0 0.0
Show 34 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q2 6,004 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 4,045 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 4,402 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 5,175 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,839 3 0 620.0
2007 Q1 4,653 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 4,792 3 0 626.0
2006 Q3 6,540 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 6,426 1 0 155.6
2006 Q1 3,754 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 5,470 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 6,039 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 5,775 14 6 2424.2
2005 Q1 3,142 1 0 318.3
2004 Q4 5,447 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 4,670 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 5,419 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 3,334 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 4,293 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 5,114 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 4,692 1 0 213.1
2003 Q1 1,830 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 4,066 2 0 491.9
2002 Q3 4,837 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 4,334 2 1 461.5
2002 Q1 3,472 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 4,402 5 1 1135.8
2001 Q3 4,266 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 4,733 3 2 633.8
2001 Q1 2,695 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 4,141 6 2 1448.9
2000 Q3 5,553 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 3,655 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,107 0 0 0.0

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
June 26, 1996 PA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
H W Cooper & Sons Inc · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

FAILURE OF FLOOR SUPPORT CAUSING INJURED & BRIDGE MATAERIAL FALLING ON VICTIM.

Reportable incidents

5 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2007 · 1 incident

July 2, 2007 PA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Three Rivers Aggregates · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was stepping off loader ladder and claims he twisted right knee. Released to full duty 7/9/07.

2003 · 1 incident

September 8, 2003 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Atlantic States Materials of PA Inc · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

PUTTING BELTS ON CRUSHER GOT LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN BELT & SHEVE, CUT TIP OFF FINGER.

2001 · 2 incidents

June 28, 2001 PA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Atlantic States Materials of PA Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

REMOVING WEDGED ROCK FROM JAW CRUSHER USING SPUD BAR. COWORKER LOST GRIP ON SPUD BAR, STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN HAND. THE SHAFT OF THE SPUD BAR FIRST STRUCK HEAD CAUSING HARD HAT TO FALL OFF EXPOSI NG HEAD WHEN BUTT THEN STRUCK HEAD.

2000 · 1 incident

August 4, 2000 PA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Atlantic States Materials of PA Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING DOWN FROM TRIAXEL WHEN HISFOOT PLANTED ON UNEVEN GROUND WHICH TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE AND BACK. EMPLOYEE FINISHED OUT HIS SHIFT.