Mining Incidents

Yard 96 - Springbay: 25 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by VOTORANTIM CIMENTOS
Spring Bay, Woodford County, IL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1102673

Yard 96 - Springbay has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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
1994–2006
Latest incident
Feb 2006
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
25
citations
3
significant & substantial
$2,163
proposed penalties
$2,088
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $75 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
13
inspections on record
133
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: 133 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Yard 96 - Springbay has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
25 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $277 in penalties contested before the Commission, $202 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-10-25.
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.
12.0%
significant & substantial
4.0%
high negligence or reckless
12.0%
reasonably likely or greater
40.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 20.0% low, 76.0% moderate, 4.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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
LAKE20010082M Settlement Melick 2001 $277 → $202
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

Yard 96 - Springbay recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2002.

Injury rate, 2002
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
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.17 and the all-US-mining average was 5.05 cases per 100 workers.
In Illinois, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.98 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.
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. Construction Materials Company 1979 to 1997
  2. Prairie Material Sales, Inc. - Aggregate Division 1997 to 2008
  3. VCNA Prairie Aggregates Illinois, Inc 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2008 3
2007 5
2006 5
2005 5
2004 7
2003 8
2002 8
2001 7
2000 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Yard 96 - Springbay sits in Woodford County, Illinois, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Woodford County, Illinois · Population 38,348
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$85,629
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
2008 Q1 448 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 2,727 5 0 1833.5
2007 Q3 3,467 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 3,569 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 2,701 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,367 2 0 594.0
2006 Q3 3,552 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 3,873 0 0 0.0
Show 24 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q1 2,938 1 0 340.4
2005 Q4 2,938 3 0 1021.1
2005 Q3 3,484 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 3,612 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 2,702 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 4,124 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 4,722 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 4,593 5 1 1088.6
2004 Q1 3,206 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 4,621 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 5,519 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 3,896 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 4,959 1 0 201.7
2002 Q3 5,759 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 5,639 3 0 532.0
2002 Q1 3,830 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 3,735 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 4,771 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 4,856 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 4,040 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 4,810 5 2 1039.5
2000 Q3 5,153 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 4,589 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 3,914 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2006 · 1 incident

2001 · 1 incident

1999 · 1 incident

December 27, 1999 IL · Metal/Non-Metal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Prairie Material Sales, Inc. - Aggregate Division · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

MAN WAS HOISTING A STRIP OF STEEL PLATE, PLATE STARTED TO FALL AND HE GRABED FOR IT AND IT SMASHED THE END OF HIS FINGER. FINGER WAS BROKEN.

1994 · 1 incident

June 1, 1994 IL · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Construction Materials Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

MAN WAS CHANGING SCREENON WASH PLANT WRENCH SLIPPED AND PINCHED LEFT HAND RING FINGER.