Mining Incidents

TRYON CONSTRUCTION PIT: 13 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

TRYON CONSTRUCTION · Surface
Controlled by Leigh Tryon
Monterey, Berkshire County, MA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1900949

TRYON CONSTRUCTION PIT 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2018
13
citations
3
significant & substantial
$1,659
proposed penalties
$1,659
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
10
inspections on record
116
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: 116 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

TRYON CONSTRUCTION PIT 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 2024-11-13.
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.
23.1%
significant & substantial
7.7%
high negligence or reckless
23.1%
reasonably likely or greater
23.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 69.2% low, 23.1% moderate, 7.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. R W Tryon Construction Company 1978 to 2018
  2. Tryon Construction 2018 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 1
2021 1
2020 3
2019 2
2018 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

TRYON CONSTRUCTION PIT sits in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Berkshire County, Massachusetts · Population 128,047
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$72,565
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
2025 Q3 2 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 440 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 4 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4 2 0 500000.0
2024 Q3 96 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 104 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 6 2 0 333333.3
Show 15 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 18 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 8 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 8 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 8 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 96 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 8 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 48 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 128 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 24 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 168 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 136 1 0 7352.9
2018 Q3 56 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 50 7 3 140000.0

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.