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Wolman: 12 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Vulcan Materials Company
Laurel, Sussex County, DE  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0700112

Wolman has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $755 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2018–2025
Latest incident
Jul 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2018
12
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,752
proposed penalties
$997
paid to date
57% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $755 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Vulcan Construction Materials LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
17
inspections on record
216
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: 216 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Wolman has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $755 outstanding across 1 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$997
paid to date
$755
outstanding
12 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $168 in penalties contested before the Commission, $168 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-28.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
0.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 50.0% low, 50.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
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.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 8% of citations on record
  • Stood as issued 1 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$168 proposed, $168 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 2025-08-17.
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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
YORK 2025-0106 Dismissal Young 2026 $168 → $168
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2025-06-25
9
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz4
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (9)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-06-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.27 Laborer, Bullgang
2025-06-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-05-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2024-05-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-05-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-12-19 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0.19 Washer Operator
2018-12-19 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0 Dredge/Barge Operator
2018-12-19 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0.97 Backhoe Operator
2018-12-19 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0.15 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.

Wolman recorded 7.72 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.
7.72
total case rate
7.72
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 Delaware, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.44 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 * 7.72 7.72 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 7.88 7.88 0.000
2021 * 7.20 7.20 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 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. Vulcan Construction Materials LLC 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 13
2025 14
2024 12
2023 13
2022 13
2021 14
2020 15
2019 14
2018 4
2017 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Wolman sits in Sussex County, Delaware, 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, Delaware · Population 247,799
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$78,162
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 6,421 1 0 155.7
2026 Q1 5,309 1 0 188.4
2025 Q4 6,101 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 6,411 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 6,853 2 0 291.8
2025 Q1 6,526 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 6,451 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 6,270 0 0 0.0
Show 27 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 6,653 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 6,508 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 6,436 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 6,886 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 6,667 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 6,667 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 6,349 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 6,789 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 6,092 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 6,162 1 0 162.3
2021 Q4 6,814 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 6,852 1 0 145.9
2021 Q2 7,135 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 6,960 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 7,597 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 8,010 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 6,815 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 6,980 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 8,937 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 8,531 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 7,796 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 5,134 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 3,685 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,884 1 0 346.7
2018 Q2 1,618 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,223 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 883 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2025 · 1 incident

2022 · 1 incident

August 5, 2022 DE · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Vulcan Construction Materials LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Right hand became pinched between the drum and the top of the winch frame while replacing swing winch on dredge.

2021 · 1 incident

March 11, 2021 DE · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Vulcan Construction Materials LLC · Struck by flying object

EE got metal in EE's eye while grinding on a guard

2018 · 1 incident

April 4, 2018 DE · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Vulcan Construction Materials LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employees were assembling a dredge ladder on site. While bolting the two sections together EE reached down for additional bolts placing EE's left thumb between the flanges. While the crane was holding one section the wind shift the load enough to smash EE's thumb, resulting in a laceration and fracture.