Mining Incidents

Victor Underground 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
52
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
30
inspections on record
447
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: 447 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.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-18.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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 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
2024 Q2 7,285 2 1 274.5
2024 Q1 7,661 1 0 130.5
Show 14 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
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.

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The full compliance file on Victor Underground

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.