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Whitney Point-Strawberry Valley: 28 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

WHITNEY POINT, Broome County, NY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3002809

Whitney Point-Strawberry Valley has $4K 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
12
Years on record
1993–2007
Latest incident
May 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
28
citations
7
significant & substantial
$3,635
proposed penalties
$3,635
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See F S Lopke Contracting Inc's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
20
inspections on record
291
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: 291 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Whitney Point-Strawberry Valley has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
27 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2018-07-11.
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.
25.9%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
25.9%
reasonably likely or greater
63.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.4% low, 92.6% moderate, 0.0% 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: 2018-07-17, 8 years ago
10%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
22
samples
10
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz91 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg9
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz3
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (22)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2001-10-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.47 0.38 1.24 Cleanup Man
2018-07-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-07-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-10-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2007-10-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-10-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.44 0.30 Cleanup Man
2006-09-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.49 0.35 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-11-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2005-11-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.36 0.47 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-11-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2004-06-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 1.12 0.29 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-06-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2004-06-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 1.53 0.10 Truck Driver
2004-06-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Scale Man
2004-06-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-05-14 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.54 Supervisor, Co. Official
2002-05-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.99 0.13 Washer Operator
2002-05-14 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.26 Truck Driver
2002-05-14 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.36 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-05-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 1.36 0.15 Cleanup Man
2001-10-24 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.32 10 0.03 Truck Driver
2001-10-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 1.26 0.11 Washer 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.

Whitney Point-Strawberry Valley recorded 9.30 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2005.

Injury rate, 2005
ⓘ 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.
9.30
total case rate
9.30
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.21 cases per 100 workers.
In New York, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.61 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
2005 * 9.30 9.30 0.000
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 * 9.54 9.54 0.000
2001 * 7.85 7.85 0.000
2000 * 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. F S Lopke Contracting Inc 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2019 2
2018 2
2011 1
2010 5
2009 5
2008 5
2007 7
2006 8
2005 8
2004 8
2003 8
2002 8
2001 10
2000 11
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Whitney Point-Strawberry Valley sits in Broome County, New York, 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.
Broome County, New York · Population 197,738
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$61,059
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
2019 Q2 391 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 790 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,284 1 0 778.8
2018 Q2 577 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 250 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,399 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 4,285 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 4,912 0 0 0.0
Show 41 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2010 Q1 330 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 2,934 2 1 681.7
2009 Q3 4,282 2 0 467.1
2009 Q2 2,067 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 122 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,311 2 1 1525.6
2008 Q3 4,248 1 0 235.4
2008 Q2 3,852 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 537 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 4,635 4 3 863.0
2007 Q3 6,595 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,460 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 616 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,212 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 7,473 2 0 267.6
2006 Q2 6,661 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 956 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 5,760 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 7,384 5 0 677.1
2005 Q2 6,984 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,372 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 5,089 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 7,735 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 6,710 1 1 149.0
2004 Q1 1,582 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 4,805 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 7,554 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 6,596 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 999 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 5,116 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 7,307 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 7,377 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,166 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 4,015 6 1 1494.4
2001 Q3 9,198 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 8,758 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 3,508 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 8,351 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 10,907 2 0 183.4
2000 Q2 9,054 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,027 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

12 on file

2007 · 1 incident

May 22, 2007 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
F S Lopke Contracting Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Changing a screen. Prying old screen up and bar slipped and handle struck just above right eye. 1" gash required 3 stitches to close.

2006 · 1 incident

August 28, 2006 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
F S Lopke Contracting Inc · Struck by flying object

Rosk wedged in bottom of hopper door vibrating Grizzly Feeder. One employee was hitting the rock with sledge hammer and a piece of rock broke off and hit another employee in the eye standing adjacent on catwalk causing damage to right eye. Had PPE off to wipe eyes.

2005 · 1 incident

August 25, 2005 NY · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
F S Lopke Contracting Inc · Fall from machine

Stepping up ladder into Wabco haul truck BD13, when foot slipped on rung. Right knee struck step and ground. Employee had a pre-existing condition with this knee.

2002 · 1 incident

September 18, 2002 NY · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
F S Lopke Contracting Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CHANGING CAGE ON WHEEL CRUSHER. WHEN TO PULL LAST BOLT FROM HUB ON OLD WHEEL AND DID NOT HAVE CRANE ATTACHED TO TOP OF WHEEL TO IMMOBILIZE IT. WHEEL TURNED WHEN RELEASED AND PINCHED EE'S LOWE R LT. HAND BETWEEN WHEEL-CAGE AND HUB AND IMPACTSOCKET. CRUSHED LITTLE FINGER AND LOWER HAND.

2001 · 1 incident

August 18, 2001 NY · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
F S Lopke Contracting Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

HELPING MOVE CRUSHER WHEEL INTO POSITION, WHEN TWISTED RIGHT KNEE. INJURY BECAME INFLAMED A FEW DAYS LATER.

1998 · 1 incident

November 10, 1998 NY · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
F S Lopke Contracting Inc · Struck by falling object

HE WAS HOSING OFF UNDER CONVEYOR BELT WHEN A LARGE ROCK FELL OFF THE CONVEYOR HITTING HIS LEFT KNEE.

1995 · 3 incidents

December 26, 1995 NY · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
F S Lopke Contracting Inc · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF HIS PICKUP TRUCK TO OPEN GATE TO PIT. HE SLIPPED ON SNOW AND FELL WITH RIGHT LEG TWISTED UNDER HIM. DISLOCATED KNEE , REQUIRED SURGERY.

August 22, 1995 NY · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
F S Lopke Contracting Inc · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

CLEANING GREASE FROM DRAGLINE BELT. RAG CAUGHT IN DRAGLINE BELT TWISTING FINGER.

April 28, 1995 NY · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
F S Lopke Contracting Inc · Fall from machine

CLIMBING UP ON LOADER TO CHECK OIL-1 FOOT ON TIRE & 1 FOOT ON STEP- HE FELL & FOOT GOT STUCK IN STEP TWISTING KNEE.

1993 · 3 incidents

November 17, 1993 NY · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) POWERED HAULAGE
F S Lopke Contracting Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS TAKING ROCKS OUT OF GRIZZLEY. THEY SHIFTED AND A ROCK SMASHED HIS HAND.

July 21, 1993 NY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
F S Lopke Contracting Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

MOVING A TAIL PULLEY FOR CRUSHER-HURT BACK.

June 16, 1993 NY · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
F S Lopke Contracting Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS CLIMBING INTO LOADER- HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE TORE HIS SHOULDER.