Mining Incidents

Victor Underground: 53 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Indiana Limestone Co · Underground
Controlled by Polycor Inc
Bloomington, Monroe County, IN  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1202504

Victor Underground has $39K in proposed MSHA penalties and $464 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2021–2025
Latest incident
Jan 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2020
53
citations
20
significant & substantial
$39,315
proposed penalties
$33,933
paid to date
86% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $5,382 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
32
inspections on record
459
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: 459 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Victor Underground has $39K in proposed MSHA penalties and $464 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.
$39K
proposed penalties
$34K
current assessed
$34K
paid to date
$464
outstanding
50 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $16K in penalties contested before the Commission, $11K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-18.
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.
37.7%
significant & substantial
5.7%
high negligence or reckless
37.7%
reasonably likely or greater
47.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 11.3% low, 83.0% moderate, 5.7% 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.
7 citations taken to the federal commission · 13% of citations on record
  • Settled 7 · 100%
43%
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 7 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
30%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$16K proposed, $11K 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 2023-11-20.
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
LAKE 2024-0031 Settlement Bulluck 2024 $16K → $11K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2025-12-18
20%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Diesel particulate (total carbon)31 over
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz2
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (17)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-09-09 TC @ 160 167 160 1.04 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2025-12-18 EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2025-12-18 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2025-12-18 ORGANIC CARBON 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2025-12-18 TC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2025-09-09 EC @ 160 114 160 0.71 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2025-09-09 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2025-09-09 ORGANIC CARBON 52 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2024-08-15 ORGANIC CARBON 80 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-08-15 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-08-15 EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-08-15 TC @ 160 84 160 0.53 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-01-27 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 2.25 10 0.23 Cutting Mach Operator
2021-01-27 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 2.24 10 0.22 Cutting Mach Operator
2020-12-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cutting Mach Operator
2020-12-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cutting Mach Operator
2020-11-10 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.55 Cutting Mach Operator

Area samples (mill and shop air)

Last sampled: 2025-12-18
5
samples
Show the individual readings (10)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Area sampled
2025-12-18 TC @ 160 0 UG TRAVEL/HAULAGE
2025-12-18 EC @ 160 0 UG TRAVEL/HAULAGE
2025-09-09 EC @ 160 0 UG ACTIVE MINING
2025-09-09 TC @ 160 0 UG ACTIVE MINING
2025-08-13 TC @ 160 183 UG ACTIVE MINING
2025-08-13 EC @ 160 116 UG ACTIVE MINING
2025-08-13 TC @ 160 140 UG ACTIVE MINING
2025-08-13 EC @ 160 146 UG ACTIVE MINING
2024-08-15 EC @ 160 0 UG ACTIVE MINING
2024-08-15 TC @ 160 0 UG ACTIVE MINING
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.

Victor Underground recorded 4.80 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
4.80
total case rate
4.80
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Indiana, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.61 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2025 * 4.80 4.80 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Indiana Limestone Co 2020 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 20
2025 17
2024 13
2023 13
2022 12
2021 9
2020 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Victor Underground sits in Monroe County, Indiana, 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.
Monroe County, Indiana · Population 139,822
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$63,372
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 12,926 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 11,170 2 1 179.1
2025 Q4 9,982 1 1 100.2
2025 Q3 11,775 1 0 84.9
2025 Q2 10,668 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 9,241 1 0 108.2
2024 Q4 7,736 3 2 387.8
2024 Q3 8,605 6 0 697.3
Show 16 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 7,285 2 1 274.5
2024 Q1 7,661 1 0 130.5
2023 Q4 6,760 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 6,785 9 3 1326.5
2023 Q2 6,027 3 1 497.8
2023 Q1 6,858 5 1 729.1
2022 Q4 5,509 2 1 363.0
2022 Q3 5,955 3 1 503.8
2022 Q2 5,844 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 5,557 3 3 539.9
2021 Q4 4,852 2 2 412.2
2021 Q3 6,378 4 2 627.2
2021 Q2 5,180 1 0 193.1
2021 Q1 2,001 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 535 3 1 5607.5
2020 Q3 480 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2025 · 1 incident

January 20, 2025 IN · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Indiana Limestone Co · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was walking with boot laces untied. Employee tripped on untied laces. Employee broke a bone in their right ankle as they fell.

2021 · 1 incident

April 26, 2021 IN · Metal/Non-Metal groundman, yardman DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Indiana Limestone Co · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Miner showed Standard Threshold Shift in annual audiogram. Miner stated homemade canon explosion (not work related) likely contributed.