Mining Incidents

WAGNER: 34 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Matthew Curry
New Alexandria, Westmoreland County, PA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3610332

WAGNER has $6K 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
4
Years on record
2021–2025
Latest incident
May 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2020
34
citations
4
significant & substantial
$5,810
proposed penalties
$5,810
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
17
inspections on record
226
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: 226 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

WAGNER has $6K 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
32 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-23.
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.
11.8%
significant & substantial
35.3%
high negligence or reckless
11.8%
reasonably likely or greater
35.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 32.4% low, 32.4% moderate, 35.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2026-06-23
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
12
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg9
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (12)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-06-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 1.14 0.16 Truck Driver
2026-06-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2026-06-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2026-06-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2026-03-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2026-03-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2026-03-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2026-03-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-09-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-09-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2023-11-28 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.27 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-01-24 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.37 Front-end Loader Operator
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.
Ownership history
  1. Curry & Kepple, Inc. 2020 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 10
2025 6
2024 6
2023 6
2022 5
2021 5
2020 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

WAGNER sits in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania · Population 353,345
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$72,468
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 4,634 2 0 431.6
2026 Q1 3,165 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 2,027 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,706 3 0 1108.6
2025 Q2 2,500 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,839 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,516 3 2 1978.9
2024 Q3 1,848 0 0 0.0
Show 17 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,651 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,591 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,488 1 1 672.0
2023 Q3 2,117 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,820 4 0 2197.8
2023 Q1 1,293 4 0 3093.6
2022 Q4 1,519 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,396 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,058 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,810 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,655 5 1 3021.1
2021 Q3 1,683 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,358 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 782 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 316 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 580 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 70 12 0 171428.6
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2025 · 2 incidents

May 19, 2025 PA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Curry & Kepple, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Driver and injured employee were removing a small amount of material from a dump truck to obtain a legal weight. The tailgate pinched the injured employee's finger.

March 11, 2025 PA · Metal/Non-Metal FIRE
Curry & Kepple, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

Machine was fine. Hydraulic line blew and ignited the hydraulic oil on the turbo.

2021 · 2 incidents

December 20, 2021 PA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Curry & Kepple, Inc. · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Stepped onto a large rock while exiting the excavator. Rock gave way and employee fell forward. Used hands to break fall causing injury to both hands and wrists.

September 21, 2021 PA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Curry & Kepple, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Felt & heard left knee pop when climbing down from excavator.