Mining Incidents

Tisbe Quarry: 6 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

B L Quarries LLC · Surface
Controlled by William Liepinis
Windsor, Broome County, NY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3003801

Tisbe Quarry has $600 in proposed MSHA penalties and $3 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2011
6
citations
0
significant & substantial
$600
proposed penalties
$597
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
5
inspections on record
60
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: 60 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Tisbe Quarry has $600 in proposed MSHA penalties and $3 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.
$600
proposed penalties
$600
current assessed
$597
paid to date
$3
outstanding
6 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-09-25.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
50.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 33.3% low, 66.7% 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: 2011-03-24, 15 years ago
50%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz21 over
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2011-03-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.46 0.43 1.07 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2011-03-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 0.4 0.60 Stone Polisher/Cutter
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. Liepinis Stone 2011 to 2011
  2. B L Quarries LLC 2011 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2014 0
2012 2
2011 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Tisbe Quarry sits in Broome County, New York, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Broome County, New York · Population 197,738
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$61,059
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
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 560 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 2,652 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,312 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 2 0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.