Mining Incidents

Yarberry Clean Fill Sand and Gravel: 108 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Yardberry Landscape Company · Surface
Controlled by Timothy C Yarberry
Anderson, Madison County, IN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1202483

Yarberry Clean Fill Sand and Gravel has $54K in proposed MSHA penalties and $30K outstanding across 6 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
108
citations
44
significant & substantial
$53,576
proposed penalties
$26,370
paid to date
49% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $27,206 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
19
inspections on record
340
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: 340 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2026-03-24.
On record since 2026.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Yarberry Clean Fill Sand and Gravel has $54K in proposed MSHA penalties and $30K outstanding across 6 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.
$54K
proposed penalties
$56K
current assessed
$26K
paid to date
$30K
outstanding
86 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-07.
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.
41.9%
significant & substantial
28.6%
high negligence or reckless
41.9%
reasonably likely or greater
36.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 1.9% low, 69.5% moderate, 28.6% 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.
22 citations taken to the federal commission · 20% of citations on record
  • Settled 2 · 9%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 5%
  • Still open 19 · 86%
67%
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 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
22%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$4K proposed, $3K 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 2026-06-30.
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
LAKE 2018-0092 Default Lesnick 2018 $2K → $2K
LAKE 2018-0093 Settlement Miller 2018 $1K → $583
LAKE 2026-0006 Decision pending
LAKE 2026-0134 Decision pending
LAKE 2026-0135 Decision pending
LAKE 2026-0162 Decision pending
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: 2024-06-05
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-06-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 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.
Ownership history
  1. Yardberry Landscape Company 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Yarberry Clean Fill Sand and Gravel sits in Madison County, Indiana, 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.
Madison County, Indiana · Population 130,949
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$62,632
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 1,025 6 2 5853.7
2026 Q1 631 12 7 19017.4
2025 Q4 631 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 631 2 2 3169.6
2025 Q2 631 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 631 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 631 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 631 0 0 0.0
Show 30 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 631 15 4 23771.8
2024 Q1 631 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 631 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 631 8 0 12678.3
2023 Q2 631 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 631 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 631 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 631 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 631 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 631 6 0 9508.7
2021 Q4 631 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 631 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 631 3 2 4754.4
2021 Q1 631 11 4 17432.6
2020 Q4 631 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 631 22 13 34865.3
2020 Q2 631 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 631 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 631 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 631 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 631 8 4 12678.3
2019 Q1 631 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 631 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 631 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 631 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 631 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 501 6 3 11976.0
2017 Q3 631 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 891 7 2 7856.3
2017 Q1 261 2 1 7662.8

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.