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WELLSVILLE FACILITY: 35 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Cimbar Resources, Inc · Facility
Controlled by John H Waters
Wellsville, Columbiana County, OH  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3304799

WELLSVILLE FACILITY has $9K 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
1
Years on record
2025
Latest incident
Feb 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2024
35
citations
4
significant & substantial
$8,963
proposed penalties
$8,963
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Cimbar Resources, Inc's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2024
9
inspections on record
213
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: 213 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

WELLSVILLE FACILITY has $9K 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.
$9K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
35 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-30.
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.
11.4%
significant & substantial
2.9%
high negligence or reckless
11.4%
reasonably likely or greater
42.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 57.1% low, 40.0% moderate, 2.9% 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: 2026-04-29
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
61
samples
27
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Asbestos 0.1f/cc27
  • Fibers, >5um27
  • Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz4
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (61)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-04-29 Fibers, >5um 0 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Fibers, >5um 0 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Fibers, >5um 0 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Fibers, >5um 0.01 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Fibers, >5um 0 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Fibers, >5um 0.03 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Fibers, >5um 0.02 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Fibers, >5um 0.03 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Fibers, >5um 0 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Fibers, >5um 0 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Fibers, >5um 0 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Fibers, >5um 0 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2026-04-29 Fibers, >5um 0.02 Bagging Operator
2025-06-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.38 Laborer, Bullgang
2025-06-17 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 4.92 Bagging Operator
2025-06-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 Laborer, Bullgang
2025-01-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Fibers, >5um 0.01 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Fibers, >5um 0.02 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Fibers, >5um 0.01 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Fibers, >5um 0 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Fibers, >5um 0.01 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Fibers, >5um 0.01 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Fibers, >5um 0.05 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Fibers, >5um 0.01 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Fibers, >5um 0.01 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Fibers, >5um 0 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Fibers, >5um 0.01 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Fibers, >5um 0 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Asbestos 0.1f/cc 0 0.1 0.00 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Fibers, >5um 0.02 Bagging Operator
2025-01-29 Fibers, >5um 0 Bagging Operator
2024-09-17 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 1.29 Building Repair/Maint.
2024-09-17 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 1.54 Laborer, Bullgang
2024-09-17 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 29.55 Bagging Operator
2024-09-17 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 1.04 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.

WELLSVILLE FACILITY recorded 2.00 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.
2.00
total case rate
2.00
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 Ohio, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.56 cases per 100 workers that year.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2025 2.00 2.00 0.000
2024 * 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. Cimbar Resources, Inc 2023 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 42
2025 44
2024 44
2023 41
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

WELLSVILLE FACILITY sits in Columbiana County, Ohio, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Columbiana County, Ohio · Population 101,203
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$58,474
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 25,466 7 1 274.9
2026 Q1 23,669 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 26,479 7 1 264.4
2025 Q3 25,646 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 23,673 6 1 253.5
2025 Q1 24,417 10 0 409.6
2024 Q4 27,399 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 25,817 0 0 0.0
Show 4 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 23,773 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 18,093 5 1 276.3
2023 Q4 22,299 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 7,713 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2025 · 1 incident

February 6, 2025 OH · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Cimbar Resources, Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was welding a piece of grating in on the 73 turbine platform which required EE to climb into a tight spot below the grating. When pulling self back up EE heard EE's shoulder pop.