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: 776 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: 2013-12-11.
On record since 2013.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
Wantage Stone has $20K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 4 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.
$20K
proposed penalties
$17K
current assessed
$15K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
74 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $7K in penalties contested before the Commission, $4K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-08.
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.
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.
7citations taken to the federal commission · 9% of citations on record
Settled
4 · 57%
Stood as issued
3 · 43%
83%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 6 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
46%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$7K proposed, $4K 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 2025-11-17.
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.
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: 2026-07-09
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
17
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg7
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz7
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (17)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2026-07-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2026-07-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2026-07-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2023-12-12
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2023-12-12
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.22
Crusher Oper/Worker
2023-12-12
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2023-05-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.5
1.16
0.43
Utility Man
2023-05-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-11-14
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz
0
Truck Driver
2019-11-14
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz
0.19
Cleanup Man
2019-11-14
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz
0.16
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2019-04-24
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz
0.58
Jackhammer Operator
2019-04-24
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz
4.15
Utility Man
2019-04-24
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz
2.3
Truck Driver
2019-04-24
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz
6.27
Front-end Loader Operator
2017-10-25
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.22
2.1
0.10
Laborer, Bullgang
2017-10-25
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
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.
Wantage Stone recorded 5.58 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.
5.58
total case rate
5.58
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 New Jersey, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.60 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 *
5.58
5.58
0.000
2024 *
7.81
7.81
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
6.83
6.83
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2017 *
16.92
8.46
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
15
2025
14
2024
11
2023
11
2022
9
2021
11
2020
11
2019
11
2018
11
2017
10
2016
9
2014
10
2013
9
2012
4
2011
0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Wantage Stone sits in Sussex County, New Jersey, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Sussex County, New Jersey · Population 145,117
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$114,316
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
9,739
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
8,157
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
9,559
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
9,608
2
2
208.2
2025 Q2
9,375
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
7,331
6
3
818.4
2024 Q4
6,476
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
6,733
0
0
0.0
Show 43 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
6,569
1
0
152.2
2024 Q1
5,825
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
7,150
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
7,262
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
7,379
1
0
135.5
2023 Q1
6,877
1
0
145.4
2022 Q4
1,552
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
7,239
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
8,003
3
0
374.9
2022 Q1
3,184
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
7,199
3
1
416.7
2021 Q3
7,489
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
7,523
0
0
0.0
2021 Q1
7,068
0
0
0.0
2020 Q4
6,932
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
7,122
3
0
421.2
2020 Q2
7,161
0
0
0.0
2020 Q1
7,355
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
7,068
3
1
424.4
2019 Q3
6,736
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
7,075
1
0
141.3
2019 Q1
5,957
5
0
839.3
2018 Q4
5,905
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
5,876
0
0
0.0
2018 Q2
6,046
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
9,199
0
0
0.0
2017 Q4
5,740
1
0
174.2
2017 Q3
6,157
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
5,964
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
5,783
1
0
172.9
2016 Q4
5,278
1
0
189.5
2016 Q3
5,351
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
5,058
0
0
0.0
2016 Q1
5,333
0
0
0.0
2014 Q2
8,162
0
0
0.0
2014 Q1
6,557
0
0
0.0
2013 Q4
7,736
10
6
1292.7
2013 Q3
2,834
1
0
352.9
2012 Q3
4,630
1
0
216.0
2012 Q1
0
2
2
2011 Q4
0
0
0
2011 Q3
325
0
0
0.0
2011 Q1
0
0
0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file
2025 · 1 incident
June 10, 2025NJ · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee was climbing down from the cab of EE's loader and as EE got to the last step EE's right hand slipped off the handrail and EE fell to the ground causing injury to EE's right shoulder.
2024 · 1 incident
September 18, 2024NJ · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techPOWERED HAULAGE
As the employee was using a skid steer to move grits in the plant the machine hit a rut and bounced and the employee claims it jarred EE injuring EE's back.
2021 · 1 incident
July 22, 2021NJ · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EE WAS DRIVING FRONT END LOADER. EE HAD TO GET OUT AND CLIMBED DOWN THE LADDER. EE MISSED THE BOTTOM STEP AND TWISTED LEFT ANKLE.
2017 · 2 incidents
November 15, 2017NJ · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EE was climbing up the ladder on the haul truck. EE's right foot was on the bottom rung which swung under the bumper. EE's right shin and knee hit the face of the bumper, pushing EE's foot off the step. EE's foot hit the ground, all of EE's body weight landed on EE's right foot. EE was taken to the doctor and being treated for a spraining EE's right ankle
July 13, 2017NJ · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
On Thursday morning EE was on way to grease shed to pickup supplies to service haul truck. We had heavy rain the night before and into that morning. From all the rain there must've been some wash out around the shed. EE walked into puddle and twisted left ankle.
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