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Woodleaf Quarry: 110 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Woodleaf, Rowan County, NC  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3100069

Woodleaf Quarry has $23K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
15
Years on record
1988–2021
Latest incident
Sep 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
110
citations
21
significant & substantial
$23,362
proposed penalties
$14,766
paid to date
63% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $8,596 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Martin Marietta Materials Inc's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
96
inspections on record
1,512
inspection hours
7.3
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.
110 citations across 1,512 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Woodleaf Quarry has $23K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 2 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.
$23K
proposed penalties
$17K
current assessed
$15K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
108 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $8K in penalties contested before the Commission, $787 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-17.
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.
19.3%
significant & substantial
10.1%
high negligence or reckless
19.3%
reasonably likely or greater
44.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.5% low, 84.4% moderate, 10.1% 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.
4 citations taken to the federal commission · 4% 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 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
90%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$8K proposed, $787 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 2009-06-04.
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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
SE 2008-941M Settlement Barbour 2009 $7K → $687
SE 2009-584M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $138 → $100
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: 2026-07-28
9%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
43
samples
11
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz201 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg20
  • Fibers, >5um2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (43)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2021-09-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.97 0.94 1.03 Crusher Oper/Worker
2026-07-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2026-07-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-08-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-08-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2025-08-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-08-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2024-04-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 Utility Man
2024-04-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.15 2.27 0.51 Utility Man
2024-04-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-04-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-04-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 Utility Man
2022-12-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2022-12-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 0.68 0.35 Utility Man
2022-12-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-12-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Lab Technician
2022-12-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 0.53 0.58 Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-03-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 Sampler, Dust
2022-03-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-03-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 0.61 0.36 Utility Man
2022-03-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2022-03-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 0.51 0.65 Crusher Oper/Worker
2021-09-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2021-09-09 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.46 Washer Operator
2021-09-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 0.73 0.30 Truck Driver
2021-09-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2019-02-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-02-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 Utility Man
2019-02-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 Utility Man
2019-02-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2019-02-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-07-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2014-07-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2014-07-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-07-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2009-09-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 0.78 0.32 Utility Man
2009-09-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.6 0.30 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-05-03 Fibers, >5um 0.03 Utility Man
2005-05-03 Fibers, >5um 0.01 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-11-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.37 2.15 0.17 Screen/Scalper Operator
2004-11-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-11-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2004-11-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.9 0.14 Drill Operator, Rotary
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.

Woodleaf Quarry recorded 0.00 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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below 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 North Carolina, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.14 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 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 6.44 6.44 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 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. Martin Marietta Aggregates 1950 to 2005
  2. Martin Marietta Materials Inc 2005 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 16
2025 16
2024 14
2023 15
2022 15
2021 17
2020 22
2019 18
2018 15
2017 17
2016 16
2015 15
2014 15
2013 20
2012 19
2011 18
2010 18
2009 19
2008 22
2007 23
2006 22
2005 21
2004 21
2003 23
2002 24
2001 24
2000 24
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Woodleaf Quarry sits in Rowan County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Rowan County, North Carolina · Population 148,487
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$63,196
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 7,530 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 8,558 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 7,841 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 6,756 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 8,196 1 0 122.0
2025 Q1 7,328 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 7,606 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 8,470 0 0 0.0
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 8,646 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 7,723 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 8,052 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 8,852 1 0 113.0
2023 Q2 8,910 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 7,900 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 8,468 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 9,052 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 8,204 1 0 121.9
2022 Q1 6,951 1 0 143.9
2021 Q4 8,123 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 8,244 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 7,854 1 0 127.3
2021 Q1 6,820 1 0 146.6
2020 Q4 7,966 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 9,176 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 9,181 3 0 326.8
2020 Q1 9,338 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 11,132 1 0 89.8
2019 Q3 10,542 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 9,710 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 7,870 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 7,195 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 8,887 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 8,877 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 6,253 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 7,381 4 0 541.9
2017 Q3 9,595 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 9,495 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 9,537 1 0 104.9
2016 Q4 10,144 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 10,140 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 9,467 5 1 528.2
2016 Q1 8,787 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 9,837 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 9,800 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 9,915 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 8,437 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 9,383 1 0 106.6
2014 Q3 9,823 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 10,161 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 7,706 1 0 129.8
2013 Q4 9,027 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 9,663 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 11,762 1 0 85.0
2013 Q1 10,432 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 10,072 3 0 297.9
2012 Q3 10,064 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 10,632 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 8,664 1 1 115.4
2011 Q4 9,342 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 9,423 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 9,434 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 6,496 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 8,608 2 1 232.3
2010 Q3 8,078 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 9,408 6 2 637.8
2010 Q1 6,238 6 1 961.8
2009 Q4 7,241 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 7,324 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 7,850 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 6,246 5 1 800.5
2008 Q4 10,746 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 10,050 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 11,896 5 2 420.3
2008 Q1 11,423 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 12,400 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 14,783 7 1 473.5
2007 Q2 17,472 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 14,658 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 12,023 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 12,375 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 12,432 2 0 160.9
2006 Q1 12,918 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 12,244 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 13,180 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 10,960 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 10,092 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 11,108 1 0 90.0
2004 Q3 10,004 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 10,520 2 1 190.1
2004 Q1 10,240 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 9,738 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 11,506 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 10,176 1 0 98.3
2003 Q1 7,576 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 8,451 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 10,764 2 0 185.8
2002 Q2 14,663 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 12,906 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 13,183 2 0 151.7
2001 Q3 12,920 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 13,447 1 0 74.4
2001 Q1 12,792 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 14,024 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 14,427 3 1 207.9
2000 Q2 14,254 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 14,198 5 1 352.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

15 on file

2021 · 1 incident

September 23, 2021 NC · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Martin Marietta Materials Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee strained lower back while tightening base plate bolts on a crusher motor.

2015 · 1 incident

November 3, 2015 NC · Metal/Non-Metal driller, highwall operator, highwall drill operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Materials Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was working on part of a crusher in the shop when the bonnet shifted pinching the employee's finger.

2011 · 1 incident

October 17, 2011 NC · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Materials Inc · Struck by falling object

Employee was removing a piece of screen cloth from a discharge box it was held above his head due to how it has to be removed. It slipped out of his hands and fell hitting his back left leg and caused a cut *requiring nine stitches.

2006 · 1 incident

November 2, 2006 NC · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Martin Marietta Materials Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was working int he jaw feeder, bottom plates of feeder were being replaced. Harrington come-along was being used to pull the plate out, when pressure applied to the piece of metal to remove it, hook on the come-along came loose striking ee in the lower part of his leg. the hook hit front of his shin on his left leg shattering the bone. He was taken to the hospital for treatment.

2003 · 1 incident

February 25, 2003 NC · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Aggregates · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CUT AND ABRASION TO LEFT INDEX FINGER. FINGER CONTINUED TO SWELL UNTIL EE WAS MADE TO SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION.

2000 · 2 incidents

February 10, 2000 NC · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Aggregates · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING TAILGATE AND WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ATTACH THE HOLD UP CHAIN, HE ALLOWED TAILGATE TO SWING TO LOWEST POSITION SMASHING MIDDLE FINGER OF RIGHT HAND. THE END OF THE FINGER WAS TORN WHILE YANKING HAND AWAY.

1999 · 1 incident

January 29, 1999 NC · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Martin Marietta Aggregates · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

USING BAR TO LIFT CONVEYOR BLET UP TO REPLACE ROLLERS BAR SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HANDRAIL & STRUCK FOREMAN IN MOUTH. LOSS OF ONE TOOTH & POSSIBLE LOSS OF A SECOND TOOTH

1997 · 1 incident

September 15, 1997 NC · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor POWERED HAULAGE
Martin Marietta Aggregates · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING HOSE UNDER CONVEYOR OR BELT WHEN HIS ARM WAS PULLED IN BETWEEN THE RETURN ROLLER AND THE BELT. CUTS AND BRUISES TO RIGHT ARM AND LEFT HAND.

1995 · 1 incident

May 31, 1995 NC · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Martin Marietta Aggregates · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING BOLT FORM NW 6 CRANE WHEN RATCHET SLIPPED CAUSING HAND TO HIT FRAME OF CRANE CAUSING FRACTURE. HAIRLINE FRACTURE TO RIGHT THUMB.

1994 · 3 incidents

November 8, 1994 NC · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman MACHINERY
Martin Marietta Aggregates · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS USING SIDE GRINDER AND GRINDER KICKED BACK CUTTING LEG REQUIRINGS 8 STITCHES.

August 10, 1994 NC · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Martin Marietta Aggregates · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS USING A WEDGE TO BREAK UP A JAW JAM WHEN WEDGE JUMPED BACK AND HIT EE IN FACE.

February 28, 1994 NC · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Aggregates · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMPLOYEE THINKS HE HURT HIS BACK PULLING A DEWATERING HOSE OUT OF A BORE HOLE. INJURY REQURIED BACK SURGERY.

1993 · 1 incident

July 28, 1993 NC · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Aggregates · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS AT THE END OF THE PIPE WHILE LOADER WAS PUSHING AT OPPOSITE END, PIPE GOT HUNG UP ON HUMP NEAR MIDDLE AND STARTED TO BEND THENB KICKED BACK AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON LEG BETWEEN KNEE AN D FOOT. LOWER RIGHT LEG WAS FRACTURED.

1988 · 1 incident

August 16, 1988 NC · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Martin Marietta Aggregates · Fall from machine

EMPL WAS GETTING OUT OF WATER TRUCK HIS FOOT SLIED OFF STEP CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO CONCRETE PAD. HIS LEFT FOOT WAS FRACTURED.