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Tazewell County Quarry: 42 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

POUNDING MILL POST OFFICE, Tazewell County, VA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4407105

Tazewell County Quarry has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2018–2022
Latest incident
Feb 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
42
citations
14
significant & substantial
$5,540
proposed penalties
$5,523
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $17 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Bizzack Construction, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
57
inspections on record
1,017
inspection hours
4.1
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.
42 citations across 1,017 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Tazewell County Quarry has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
42 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-06-18.
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.
33.3%
significant & substantial
4.8%
high negligence or reckless
31.0%
reasonably likely or greater
45.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 21.4% low, 73.8% moderate, 4.8% 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.
10 citations taken to the federal commission · 24% of citations on record
  • Settled 8 · 80%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 2 · 20%
75%
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 4 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
14%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2K proposed, $1K 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 2019-01-16.
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
VA 2019-0066 Settlement Paez 2019 $502 → $502
VA 2011-390M Settlement Feldman 2013 $400 → $400
VA 2010-284M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $363 → $263
VA 2010-430M Settlement Lesnick 2013 $317 → $200
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: 2025-11-13
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
35
samples
9
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg23
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz7
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz4
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (35)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-11-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2025-11-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-11-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.64 0.86 0.74 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2025-11-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2024-10-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 Truck Driver
2024-10-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-10-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2024-10-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.45 1.82 0.25 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2024-06-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2024-06-18 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.24 10 0.02 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-06-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2024-06-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2023-04-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2023-04-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 1.05 0.23 Truck Driver
2023-04-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-04-14 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.24 10 0.02 Backhoe Operator
2021-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2021-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Shovel Operator
2021-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2021-05-06 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2018-03-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Shovel Operator
2018-03-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-03-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-04-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 1.47 0.22 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-04-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-09-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-09-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2016-09-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2010-01-20 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.12 10 0.01 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2010-01-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Jackhammer Operator
2010-01-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2010-01-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-01-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.29 2.21 0.13 Backhoe Operator
2005-01-19 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.43 10 0.04 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.
Ownership history
  1. CREEKSIDE PROPERTIES INC 2004 to 2014
  2. Rogers Group Inc. 2014 to 2020
  3. Bizzack Construction, LLC 2020 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 7
2025 6
2024 13
2023 9
2022 8
2021 8
2020 7
2019 6
2018 6
2017 6
2016 6
2015 7
2014 7
2013 3
2012 5
2011 4
2010 5
2009 5
2008 3
2007 3
2006 3
2005 2
2004 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Tazewell County Quarry sits in Tazewell County, Virginia, where the Census mining category is 3.1% 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.
Tazewell County, Virginia · Population 39,933
3.1%
Mining share of county employment
$45,788
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 5,100 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 2,760 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 3,051 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,164 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,850 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,504 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,820 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 4,320 0 0 0.0
Show 79 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 4,968 1 0 201.3
2024 Q1 2,783 1 0 359.3
2023 Q4 4,969 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 4,664 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 4,031 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,130 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 4,270 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 4,831 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 4,847 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 4,031 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,200 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 4,181 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,753 1 1 363.2
2021 Q1 2,976 1 0 336.0
2020 Q4 2,208 1 0 452.9
2020 Q3 2,537 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,405 2 1 1423.5
2020 Q1 1,992 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,502 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,793 1 0 358.0
2019 Q2 2,349 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 3,825 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 2,582 2 1 774.6
2018 Q2 3,086 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3,611 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 3,395 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,454 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,671 1 0 272.4
2017 Q1 4,376 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 3,173 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,725 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,225 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 4,779 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 3,778 1 0 264.7
2015 Q3 3,653 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,746 3 2 1718.2
2015 Q1 4,238 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 4,356 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 4,392 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2,977 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,343 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 887 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,662 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,734 2 0 1153.4
2013 Q1 1,546 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,054 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,471 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,355 1 0 424.6
2012 Q1 2,248 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 2,581 1 1 387.4
2011 Q3 1,789 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,327 6 2 2578.4
2011 Q1 2,714 6 1 2210.8
2010 Q4 3,120 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,907 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 2,737 2 1 730.7
2010 Q1 2,602 1 1 384.3
2009 Q4 1,905 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,714 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 2,488 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,488 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,815 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,819 2 2 1099.5
2008 Q2 1,957 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,812 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 2,293 1 0 436.1
2007 Q3 1,401 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,612 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,917 1 0 521.6
2006 Q4 2,006 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,422 1 0 703.2
2006 Q2 1,830 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,391 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 987 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,248 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,456 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,388 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,442 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,494 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2022 · 1 incident

February 18, 2022 VA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Bizzack Construction, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was walking through the mud and heard foot pop and then could barely walk

2018 · 1 incident

February 2, 2018 VA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Rogers Group Inc. · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Climbing onto dozer and twisted back.