Virginia Black Granite Inc. has $23K 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
8
Years on record
2016–2020
Latest incident
Nov 2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
66
citations
25
significant & substantial
$23,326
proposed penalties
$23,326
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
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: 543 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Virginia Black Granite Inc. has $23K 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.
$23K
proposed penalties
$23K
current assessed
$23K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
66 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-15.
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.
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: 2024-11-13
50%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
13
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz41 over
Respirable dust, <.1mg8
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (13)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2024-11-13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
3.97
2.86
1.39
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2024-11-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Stone Polisher/Cutter
2024-11-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2019-06-05
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2019-06-05
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.17
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2019-06-05
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.16
Stone Polisher/Cutter
2019-06-05
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.15
Stone Polisher/Cutter
2019-06-05
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2016-06-14
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2016-06-14
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Stone Polisher/Cutter
2016-06-14
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2016-06-14
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.21
0.98
0.21
Backhoe Operator
2016-06-14
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Stone Polisher/Cutter
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.
Virginia Black Granite Inc. recorded 8.80 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2016.
Injury rate, 2016
ⓘ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.
8.80
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.17 and the all-US-mining average was 2.59 cases per 100 workers.
In Virginia, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.41 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.
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
8
2025
7
2024
7
2023
9
2022
3
2021
1
2020
9
2019
8
2018
3
2017
6
2016
10
2015
8
2014
3
2004
10
2003
8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Virginia Black Granite Inc. sits in Culpeper County, Virginia, 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.
Culpeper County, Virginia · Population 53,563
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$96,098
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
5,280
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
2,900
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
3,472
1
0
288.0
2025 Q3
5,280
1
0
189.4
2025 Q2
2,940
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
2,900
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
2,588
1
0
386.4
2024 Q3
3,640
2
1
549.5
Show 41 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
2,965
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
3,813
8
3
2098.1
2023 Q4
5,580
7
5
1254.5
2023 Q3
6,412
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
6,760
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
1,075
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
2,400
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
0
0
0
2021 Q4
0
0
0
2021 Q3
0
0
0
2021 Q2
0
0
0
2021 Q1
2,291
0
0
0.0
2020 Q4
3,033
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
2,889
5
3
1730.7
2020 Q2
3,788
0
0
0.0
2020 Q1
2,833
8
0
2823.9
2019 Q4
4,870
0
0
0.0
2019 Q3
3,967
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
3,640
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
821
6
2
7308.2
2018 Q4
333
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
574
1
0
1742.2
2018 Q2
2,251
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
2,254
3
0
1331.0
2017 Q4
2,592
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
3,876
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
4,361
2
1
458.6
2017 Q1
4,245
0
0
0.0
2016 Q4
5,983
0
0
0.0
2016 Q3
5,583
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
5,974
5
1
837.0
2016 Q1
5,194
0
0
0.0
2015 Q4
6,684
3
0
448.8
2015 Q3
4,905
4
3
815.5
2015 Q2
3,320
0
0
0.0
2015 Q1
2,669
0
0
0.0
2014 Q4
1,656
8
5
4830.9
2014 Q3
768
0
0
0.0
2004 Q2
3,866
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
4,222
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
5,462
1
1
183.1
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
8 on file
2020 · 3 incidents
November 9, 2020VA · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
General Miner was drilling with Jack Hammer, Drill Steel Broke and Jack Hammer fell on Foot, Dislocating One Toe requiring Stitches remaining smaller toes were badly bruised.
Replacing New Roller on Excavator, Roller Slipped and caught Middle finger Damaging it, Treated Cut after removing finger from Glove and sent Employee to ER
Employee was splitting granite block with feathers and wedges upon splitting the piece of stone employee was standing on shifted unexpectedly causing employee to loose balance falling forward onto adjacent piece of granite causing abrasions to both knees and right elbow.
While starting a new hole 33mm before the drill bit broke into the surface of the rock EE shifted weight and in doing so let off on down pressure and the drill steel bounced out of the bit and the tip of the steel went into EE's boot behind safety toe at tongue area between the laces and caused a small cut of the skin.