Woodbury Gray Quarry has $86K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
36
Years on record
1984–2025
Latest incident
Sep 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
68
citations
20
significant & substantial
$86,232
proposed penalties
$16,483
paid to date
19% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $69,749 gap.
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: 653 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Woodbury Gray Quarry has $86K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 outstanding across 3 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.
$86K
proposed penalties
$17K
current assessed
$16K
paid to date
$151
outstanding
68 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $79K in penalties contested before the Commission, $9K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-27.
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.
4citations taken to the federal commission · 6% of citations on record
Settled
4 · 100%
100%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 4 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
88%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$79K proposed, $9K 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 2020-11-04.
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: 2021-11-18, 4 years ago
9%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
20
samples
11
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz131 over
Respirable dust, <.1mg6
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (20)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2020-04-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.87
0.56
1.55
Stone Polisher/Cutter
2021-11-18
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2021-11-18
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.47
0.55
0.85
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2021-11-18
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Supervisor, Co. Official
2021-11-18
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2020-06-02
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Stone Polisher/Cutter
2020-04-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.28
0.61
0.46
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2020-04-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.12
Front-end Loader Operator
2020-04-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.26
Drill Operator, Rotary
2013-05-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.14
0.57
0.25
Jackhammer Operator
2013-05-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.24
0.6
0.40
Drill Operator, Rotary
2013-05-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.27
0.78
0.35
Drill Operator, Rotary
2013-05-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.38
0.67
0.57
Stone Polisher/Cutter
2013-05-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.17
0.74
0.23
Jackhammer Operator
2004-12-01
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2002-07-17
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.14
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2002-07-17
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.23
1.39
0.17
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2002-07-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2002-07-17
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.29
0.63
0.46
Laborer, Bullgang
2002-07-17
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.72
0.96
0.75
Laborer, Bullgang
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.
Woodbury Gray Quarry recorded 15.62 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.
15.62
total case rate
7.81
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 Vermont, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.67 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 *
15.62
7.81
0.000
2024 *
9.49
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
6.20
0.00
0.000
2021 *
7.37
0.00
0.000
2020 *
17.79
17.79
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
13
2025
14
2024
14
2023
17
2022
13
2021
14
2020
15
2019
12
2018
10
2017
10
2016
9
2015
7
2014
6
2013
7
2012
7
2011
7
2010
7
2009
6
2008
7
2007
7
2006
8
2005
7
2004
7
2003
7
2002
7
2001
6
2000
6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Woodbury Gray Quarry sits in Washington County, Vermont, 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.
Washington County, Vermont · Population 59,958
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$79,853
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
An EE and IE were working together to remove pins from a quick coupler. One of the pins was stuck and not moving. When it finally released, the pin shifted suddenly and pinched IE's right hand/knuckle against the frame of the quick coupler, causing an injury.
employee slipped on rocks and scraped their left arm and right hand. Initially it was a first aid, however few days later it got worse, and employee was diagnosed with cellulitis
Employee was changing rods on EE's Epiroc D-30 drill. EE felt a pop in EE's hand. EE told me that EE's hand and arm was tingly. Employee continued activity. Employee was sent to the doctor on 12/12 to be evaluated. Employee was diagnosed with wrist strain and is on modified duty wearing wrist brace as needed.
Breaking a slab and the slab shifted suddenly when it broke and EE fell between the slabs and it rolled back onto EE causing a crushing injury to pelvis.
While placing a drive shaft into the bucket of a loader his gloved hand got caught on it causing his finger to become pinched when he put it down.
2014 · 1 incident
December 22, 2014VT · Metal/Non-Metalstone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Worker slipped on some ice when getting out of his vehicle and landed on his shoulder. Got up and brushed off and went to work. No accident report was filled out and no lost time for the injury. Throughout the year his shoulder was giving him trouble and was traced back to the fall he had in December. He held off Surgery until December 28 2015. No lost time until now.
2012 · 1 incident
April 24, 2012VT · Metal/Non-Metalstone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmerHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
employee cutting a piece of plastic pipe with a utility knife, knife slipped and cut side of palm
2011 · 1 incident
March 24, 2011VT · Metal/Non-Metalstone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EMPLOYEE WAS WAITING FOR ANOTHER EMPLOYEE TO MOVE HIS BAR, WHEN A PIECE OF DRILL STEEL STARTED TO FALL, HE TRIED TO GRAB IT AND THE STEEL HITHIS FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING UP THE QUARRY DRILL. AS ONE END OF THE DRILL WAS LIFTED WITH A CRANE, THE EMPLOYEE HAD HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE DRILL AND THE CHAIN.
June 2, 1997VT · Metal/Non-Metalledgeman/hand, quarry manMACHINERY
EMPLOYEE WAS ON3A LOWER LEDGE CUTTING A PIECE OF STONE. THE MEN ON THE UPPER LEVEL WERE DRILLING A STONE AND DRILLED INTO AN UNSEEN CRACK AND THAT STONE FELL.