Mining Incidents

Tioga County Quarry: 13 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

DeCristo Inc. · Surface
Controlled by David M DeCristo
Middlebury Center, Tioga County, PA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3605077

Tioga County Quarry has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
1984–1990
Latest incident
May 1990
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
13
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,586
proposed penalties
$1,586
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
17
inspections on record
253
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: 253 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Tioga County Quarry has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
13 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-16.
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.
15.4%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
15.4%
reasonably likely or greater
30.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 38.5% low, 61.5% moderate, 0.0% 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: 2024-08-13
7
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-08-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2024-08-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-05-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Drill Operator, Rotary
2018-04-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-04-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mechanic
2011-03-31 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-03-31 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer 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. H & N Affilliates Inc 1950 to 1981
  2. Faylor-Middlecreek Inc 1981 to 1990
  3. Eastern Industries Inc 1990 to 2011
  4. Eastern Industries Inc. 2011 to 2017
  5. DeCristo Inc. 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 6
2025 6
2024 5
2023 5
2022 5
2021 4
2020 5
2019 4
2018 6
2017 4
2012 4
2011 6
2010 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Tioga County Quarry sits in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 2.1% 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.
Tioga County, Pennsylvania · Population 41,078
2.1%
Mining share of county employment
$62,932
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 3,786 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 2,288 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 2,913 1 0 343.3
2025 Q3 3,580 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,020 2 0 662.3
2025 Q1 2,154 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,515 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,083 1 0 324.4
Show 37 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 2,629 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,986 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 2,436 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,608 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,488 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,346 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,476 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,226 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,802 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 950 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,291 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,786 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,734 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 466 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,705 1 1 586.5
2020 Q3 2,697 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,689 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,020 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,078 2 0 962.5
2019 Q3 1,869 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,797 1 0 556.5
2019 Q1 1,419 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,557 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,327 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,849 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 711 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,502 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 851 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,665 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 664 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 2,025 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 3,891 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 3,950 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 3,009 3 1 997.0
2010 Q4 3,937 2 0 508.0
2010 Q3 606 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

1990 · 1 incident

May 1, 1990 PA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Eastern Industries Inc · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO RESET HOPPER IN PRIMARY CRUSHER JAW BOUND HOPPER RELEASED CAUSING IT TO JUMP UP CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO LOSE HIS BALANCE HOPPER DID NOT TOUCH EMPLOYEE EMPLOYEE FELL APPROX 15FT TO THE GROUND FROM THE PLATFORM

1988 · 1 incident

July 1, 1988 PA · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Faylor-Middlecreek Inc · Struck against stationary object

AS EMPL WAS CLIMBING DOWN OFF CRUSHER HE SPRAINED HIS RIGHT ANKLE ON ROCK. STEPPED ON ROCK CAUSING HIS ANKLE TO TWIST AS HE CLIMBING DOWN OFF CRUSHER.

1987 · 1 incident

December 16, 1987 PA · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Faylor-Middlecreek Inc · Struck by falling object

TAKING CRUSHER 5PART WHEN APIECE OF THE FEEDER FELL ONTO EMPLOYEES LEFT FOOT.

1986 · 2 incidents

November 19, 1986 PA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Faylor-Middlecreek Inc · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

I.NAME WAS CLEA3ING OUT BINS THERE WAS SNOW ON THE METAL HAND SLIPPED AND EMP.OYEE FELL TO THE FROUND HITTING HIS RT KNEE AND BACK ON 1-1-87 I.NAME WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE HIS LEG SW ELLED AND THEY 1ERFORMED EMERGENCY SURGERY THAT DAY WHEN HIS ORIGINAL ACCIDENT HAPPENED I.NAME HID NOT SEE A DR FOR TREATMENT THE EVENING OF HIS OPERATION IS THE FIRST HE SAW A DR

August 21, 1986 PA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Faylor-Middlecreek Inc · Struck by flying object

EMP WAS CUTTING3OUT A TOOTH WITH A WEDGE WHEN THE WEDGE FLEW INTO THE AIR STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON FOREHEAD

1984 · 1 incident

June 23, 1984 PA · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Faylor-Middlecreek Inc · Fall from machine

EE WAS DESCENDING TO GROUND FROM PLATFORM OF CRANE. WHEN RIGHT FOOR WAS PALCED ON GROUND, THE ANKLE TWISTED & FRACTURED.