Mining Incidents

TONGUE RIVER STONE INC: 107 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

TONGUE RIVER STONE INC · Surface
Sheridan, Sheridan County, WY  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4800017

TONGUE RIVER STONE INC has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K 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 2000
107
citations
29
significant & substantial
$19,128
proposed penalties
$14,707
paid to date
77% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,421 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
59
inspections on record
791
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: 791 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

TONGUE RIVER STONE INC has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K 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
$15K
paid to date
$4K
outstanding
107 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-20.
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.
27.1%
significant & substantial
8.4%
high negligence or reckless
27.1%
reasonably likely or greater
61.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 2.8% low, 88.8% moderate, 8.4% 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: 2024-03-27
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
9
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg5
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
Show the individual readings (9)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-03-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-03-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2024-03-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2017-06-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.66 0.26 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-06-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-09-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 0.84 0.27 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-09-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 1.39 0.20 Bulldozer Operator
2010-09-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-06-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.76 0.22 Laborer, Bullgang
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. Guernsey Stone Company 1950 to 1986
  2. Tongue River Stone Inc 1986 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 4
2025 4
2024 4
2023 2
2022 2
2021 2
2020 3
2019 3
2018 3
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
2014 3
2013 2
2012 2
2011 3
2010 3
2009 5
2008 4
2007 2
2006 3
2005 3
2004 3
2003 4
2002 3
2001 3
2000 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

TONGUE RIVER STONE INC sits in Sheridan County, Wyoming, where the Census mining category is 4.6% 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.
Sheridan County, Wyoming · Population 31,585
4.6%
Mining share of county employment
$70,855
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 2,035 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,419 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,473 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,922 4 0 2081.2
2025 Q1 869 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 738 11 4 14905.1
2024 Q3 1,621 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,136 2 0 936.3
Show 96 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1 3,296 1 0 303.4
2023 Q4 960 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 960 5 2 5208.3
2023 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 800 2 0 2500.0
2022 Q3 960 3 1 3125.0
2022 Q2 1,440 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 441 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 684 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 993 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 263 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 960 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,514 3 0 1981.5
2020 Q2 1,440 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 800 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 840 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,400 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 420 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,329 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,330 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,560 10 7 6410.3
2018 Q1 60 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 960 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 320 2 0 6250.0
2017 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 640 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 250 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 360 2 0 5555.6
2015 Q3 360 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 720 1 0 1388.9
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 120 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 70 1 0 14285.7
2014 Q2 260 1 0 3846.2
2014 Q1 50 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 140 1 0 7142.9
2013 Q3 160 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 80 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 10 2 0 200000.0
2012 Q4 720 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,900 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,040 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,440 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,250 1 0 800.0
2011 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 960 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 2,480 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 2,400 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 160 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 960 7 3 7291.7
2009 Q3 2,400 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 2,640 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,880 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,040 2 0 1923.1
2008 Q3 1,680 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 2,160 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 320 10 6 31250.0
2007 Q4 960 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 327 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 720 1 0 1388.9
2006 Q3 480 3 1 6250.0
2006 Q2 2,880 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 240 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 640 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 960 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 960 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,920 1 0 520.8
2004 Q2 1,920 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,120 1 0 892.9
2003 Q3 2,400 1 0 416.7
2003 Q2 2,400 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 960 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,770 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,438 5 1 3477.1
2002 Q1 1,171 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 960 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,739 3 0 1725.1
2001 Q2 1,625 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 1,440 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,750 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,360 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 2,020 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,640 17 3 10365.9

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.