Mining Incidents

Wadley Crushed Stone: 59 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Wadley Crushed Stone LLC · Surface
Controlled by Donald J Stone
Wadley, Randolph County, AL  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0103450

Wadley Crushed Stone has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $249 outstanding across 3 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 2013
59
citations
14
significant & substantial
$13,439
proposed penalties
$13,190
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $249 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2013
48
inspections on record
753
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: 753 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: 2013-11-06.
On record since 2013.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Wadley Crushed Stone has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $249 outstanding across 3 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.
$13K
proposed penalties
$13K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$249
outstanding
56 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $5K in penalties contested before the Commission, $5K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-05-21.
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.
25.0%
significant & substantial
10.7%
high negligence or reckless
25.0%
reasonably likely or greater
55.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 10.7% low, 78.6% moderate, 10.7% 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.
10 citations taken to the federal commission · 17% of citations on record
  • Settled 10 · 100%
25%
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%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$5K proposed, $5K 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 2014-08-18.
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
SE 2014-0456 Settlement Bulluck 2014 $3K → $3K
SE 2014-0361 Settlement Lesnick 2015 $2K → $2K
SE 2014-0427 Settlement Bulluck 2014 $643 → $643
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: 2024-01-30
14%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
39
samples
14
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz142 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg23
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (39)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2021-01-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.57 0.45 1.27 Utility Man
2019-11-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.5 0.45 1.11 Utility Man
2024-01-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2024-01-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2024-01-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-09-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2023-09-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2023-09-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-03-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-03-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2023-03-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2022-05-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2022-05-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Drill Operator, Rotary
2022-05-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2021-03-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 Utility Man
2021-01-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-01-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2021-01-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-05-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.38 0.44 0.86 Utility Man
2020-05-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-05-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2020-05-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.4 0.38 Utility Man
2019-11-13 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 10 0.02 Jackhammer Operator
2019-11-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Lab Technician
2019-11-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 0.54 0.48 Utility Man
2019-01-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 0.57 0.54 Lab Technician
2019-01-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2019-01-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.55 0.64 0.86 Utility Man
2018-03-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.64 0.31 Cleanup Man
2018-03-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.29 0.66 Sampler, Dust
2018-03-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mechanic
2017-04-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.4 0.43 0.93 Cleanup Man
2017-04-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2017-04-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-04-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.47 0.74 0.64 Lab Technician
2013-02-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 1.36 0.18 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2013-02-21 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 Diamond Drill Operator
2013-02-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.43 0.76 0.57 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2013-02-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0.09 Mechanic
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.

Wadley Crushed Stone recorded 0.00 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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below 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 Alabama, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.52 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 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 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. Wadley Crushed Stone LLC 2012 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 25
2025 22
2024 22
2023 20
2022 19
2021 20
2020 22
2019 19
2018 16
2017 15
2016 14
2015 13
2014 18
2013 15
2012 7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Wadley Crushed Stone sits in Randolph County, Alabama, 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.
Randolph County, Alabama · Population 22,310
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$51,551
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 14,787 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 11,655 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 13,785 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 13,210 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 12,125 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 13,012 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 13,608 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 13,234 0 0 0.0
Show 47 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 12,335 2 1 162.1
2024 Q1 14,477 2 1 138.2
2023 Q4 10,275 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 10,873 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 10,288 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 12,601 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 8,613 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 9,427 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 11,000 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 11,725 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 11,060 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 11,764 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,512 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 12,891 2 1 155.1
2020 Q4 12,662 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 14,001 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 14,375 1 0 69.6
2020 Q1 13,625 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 12,164 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 13,533 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 11,668 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 10,801 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 9,714 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 10,477 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 9,158 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 9,547 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 9,063 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 8,907 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 10,000 3 0 300.0
2017 Q1 9,064 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 8,640 1 0 115.7
2016 Q3 9,577 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 8,225 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 7,231 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 7,893 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 9,057 1 0 110.4
2015 Q2 6,142 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 6,887 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 10,489 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 11,493 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 11,369 12 1 1055.5
2014 Q1 11,543 2 0 173.3
2013 Q4 11,359 7 1 616.3
2013 Q3 10,371 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 7,470 7 1 937.1
2013 Q1 5,082 8 4 1574.2
2012 Q4 695 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.