Watts Quarry: 12 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal
Hard Rock Mining
· Surface
Controlled by
Anthony Nicolas Goedereis; Douglas Logan Goedereis
MSHA Mine ID: 3402245
Watts Quarry has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $2K in penalties since 2025, with $470 outstanding.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 0
- Years on record
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- Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2025
12
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,829
proposed penalties
$1,359
paid to date
74% of proposed penalties paid to date. The remaining $470 was reduced, settled, contested or is still owed.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2025
7
inspections on record
58
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.Rate withheld: 58 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Watts Quarry has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $470 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$470
outstanding
9 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-08-19.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.8.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
8.3%
reasonably likely or greater
16.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
- Hard Rock Mining 2024 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year | Employees |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 11 |
| 2025 | 7 |
| 2024 | 3 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.
Watts Quarry sits in Adair County, Oklahoma, where the Census mining category is 0.6% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.Adair County, Oklahoma · Population 19,595
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$48,028
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. 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 | 3,804 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2026 Q1 | 2,943 | 7 | 0 | 2378.5 |
| 2025 Q4 | 3,416 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q3 | 2,723 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q2 | 1,565 | 2 | 0 | 1278.0 |
| 2025 Q1 | 880 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q4 | 1,286 | 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.