Mining Incidents

Victor Gravel Pit: 36 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Victor Gravel Corp. · Surface
Victor, Ontario County, NY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3003967

Victor Gravel Pit has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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 2016
36
citations
10
significant & substantial
$6,387
proposed penalties
$4,930
paid to date
77% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,457 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
5
inspections on record
97
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: 97 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2018-09-06.
On record since 2018.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Victor Gravel Pit has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
35 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $3K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-08-12.
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.
28.6%
significant & substantial
2.9%
high negligence or reckless
28.6%
reasonably likely or greater
54.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 8.6% low, 88.6% moderate, 2.9% 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.
9 citations taken to the federal commission · 25% of citations on record
  • Settled 9 · 100%
100%
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%
50%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$3K 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 2016-09-21.
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
YORK 2016-0147 Settlement McCarthy 2016 $3K → $1K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Victor Gravel Corp. 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 1
2016 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Victor Gravel Pit sits in Ontario County, New York, 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.
Ontario County, New York · Population 112,405
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$79,814
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
2020 Q3 804 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 201 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 76 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 86 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 39 10 1 256410.3
2019 Q2 109 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 51 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 537 0 0 0.0
Show 11 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2018 Q3 667 8 2 11994.0
2018 Q2 52 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 48 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 88 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 336 7 2 20833.3
2017 Q2 912 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 410 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,726 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,742 9 4 5166.5
2016 Q2 630 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 40 0 0 0.0

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.